Gopala I
E176904
Gopala I was the founder of the Pala dynasty in eastern India, known for establishing a powerful empire in Bengal and Bihar in the 8th century.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Gopala I canonical | 8 |
| Gopala Deva | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1548010 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Gopala I Context triple: [Pala Empire, notableRuler, Gopala I]
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A.
Rajasuya
Rajasuya is an ancient Vedic royal consecration ritual performed to legitimize and exalt a king’s sovereignty and supreme status.
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B.
Jadughar
Jadughar is the colloquial Bengali name for the Indian Museum in Kolkata, one of the oldest and largest museums in India, renowned for its extensive collection of art, archaeology, and natural history.
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C.
Andhra Bhoja
Andhra Bhoja is an honorific epithet celebrating Sri Krishnadevaraya as a great patron of Telugu literature and the arts, likening him to the legendary king Bhoja.
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D.
Raja Bir Singh Deo
Raja Bir Singh Deo was a prominent 17th-century Bundela Rajput ruler of Orchha in central India, known for his patronage of architecture and the arts.
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E.
King Chattergy
King Chattergy is a fictional monarch in Salman Rushdie’s novel "Haroun and the Sea of Stories," ruling the fantastical realm of Gup.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Gopala I Target entity description: Gopala I was the founder of the Pala dynasty in eastern India, known for establishing a powerful empire in Bengal and Bihar in the 8th century.
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A.
Rajasuya
Rajasuya is an ancient Vedic royal consecration ritual performed to legitimize and exalt a king’s sovereignty and supreme status.
-
B.
Jadughar
Jadughar is the colloquial Bengali name for the Indian Museum in Kolkata, one of the oldest and largest museums in India, renowned for its extensive collection of art, archaeology, and natural history.
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C.
Andhra Bhoja
Andhra Bhoja is an honorific epithet celebrating Sri Krishnadevaraya as a great patron of Telugu literature and the arts, likening him to the legendary king Bhoja.
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D.
Raja Bir Singh Deo
Raja Bir Singh Deo was a prominent 17th-century Bundela Rajput ruler of Orchha in central India, known for his patronage of architecture and the arts.
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E.
King Chattergy
King Chattergy is a fictional monarch in Salman Rushdie’s novel "Haroun and the Sea of Stories," ruling the fantastical realm of Gup.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
founder of dynasty
ⓘ
historical figure ⓘ monarch ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Buddhist monastic institutions ⓘ |
| chronologyCertainty | approximate dates ⓘ |
| countryInPresentDay | India ⓘ |
| deathPlace | eastern India ⓘ |
| dynasty |
Pala dynasty
ⓘ
linked to:
Pala Empire
|
| dynastyFounded |
Pala dynasty
ⓘ
linked to:
Pala Empire
|
| era | 8th century ⓘ |
| governmentForm | monarchy ⓘ |
| historicalRegion | eastern India ⓘ |
| knownFor |
establishing a powerful empire in Bengal and Bihar
ⓘ
founding the Pala Empire ⓘ restoring political stability in Bengal ⓘ |
| languageOfCourt | Sanskrit ⓘ |
| name | Gopala I ⓘ |
| notableAchievement | laying foundations of Pala political dominance in eastern India ⓘ |
| powerBase |
Bengal
ⓘ
Magadha ⓘ |
| precededBy | period of anarchy in Bengal ⓘ |
| regionRuled |
Bengal
ⓘ
Bihar ⓘ |
| reignEnd | c. 770 CE ⓘ |
| reignStart | c. 750 CE ⓘ |
| religion | Buddhism ⓘ |
| royalHouse | Pala ⓘ |
| successor | Dharmapala ⓘ |
| title |
King of Bengal
ⓘ
Maharajadhiraja ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Gopala I Description of subject: Gopala I was the founder of the Pala dynasty in eastern India, known for establishing a powerful empire in Bengal and Bihar in the 8th century.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.