Chandrika Kumaratunga (as Prime Minister in 1994)
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Chandrika Kumaratunga is a Sri Lankan politician who briefly served as Prime Minister in 1994 before becoming the country’s executive President and one of its most prominent contemporary leaders.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Chandrika Kumaratunga | 3 |
| Chandrika Kumaratunga (as Prime Minister in 1994) canonical | 1 |
| Sri Lanka (as Prime Minister in 1994) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1763008 — 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: Chandrika Kumaratunga (as Prime Minister in 1994) Context triple: [Sirimavo Bandaranaike, precededBy, Chandrika Kumaratunga (as Prime Minister in 1994)]
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A.
Sirimavo Bandaranaike
Sirimavo Bandaranaike was a Sri Lankan stateswoman who became the world’s first female prime minister and a long-serving leader of her country.
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B.
Prime Minister of Ceylon
The Prime Minister of Ceylon was the head of government of the former British Dominion of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), leading the executive branch before the country became a republic.
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C.
S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike
S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike was a prominent Sri Lankan statesman and founder of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party who served as prime minister in the 1950s and was assassinated while in office.
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D.
Dudley Senanayake
Dudley Senanayake was a prominent Sri Lankan statesman who served multiple terms as prime minister and played a key role in the country’s early post-independence politics.
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E.
Helen Clark
Helen Clark is a New Zealand politician who served as the country’s prime minister from 1999 to 2008 and later as Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme.
- 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: Chandrika Kumaratunga (as Prime Minister in 1994) Target entity description: Chandrika Kumaratunga is a Sri Lankan politician who briefly served as Prime Minister in 1994 before becoming the country’s executive President and one of its most prominent contemporary leaders.
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A.
Sirimavo Bandaranaike
Sirimavo Bandaranaike was a Sri Lankan stateswoman who became the world’s first female prime minister and a long-serving leader of her country.
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B.
Prime Minister of Ceylon
The Prime Minister of Ceylon was the head of government of the former British Dominion of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), leading the executive branch before the country became a republic.
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C.
S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike
S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike was a prominent Sri Lankan statesman and founder of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party who served as prime minister in the 1950s and was assassinated while in office.
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D.
Dudley Senanayake
Dudley Senanayake was a prominent Sri Lankan statesman who served multiple terms as prime minister and played a key role in the country’s early post-independence politics.
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E.
Helen Clark
Helen Clark is a New Zealand politician who served as the country’s prime minister from 1999 to 2008 and later as Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
President of Sri Lanka
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Prime Minister of Sri Lanka ⓘ Sri Lankan politician ⓘ human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Sri Lanka ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Sciences Po
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St. Bridget’s Convent, Colombo ⓘ
surface form:
St Bridget’s Convent, Colombo
Sorbonne University ⓘ
surface form:
University of Paris
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| familyName | Bandaranaike Kumaratunga ⓘ |
| father | S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike ⓘ |
| givenName |
Chandrika Tandon
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surface form:
Chandrika
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| headOfGovernment |
Chandrika Kumaratunga (as Prime Minister in 1994)
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Sri Lanka (as Prime Minister in 1994)
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| headOfState |
President of Sri Lanka
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surface form:
Sri Lanka (as President from 1994 to 2005)
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| memberOfPoliticalParty |
People’s Alliance (Sri Lanka)
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Sri Lanka Freedom Party ⓘ United People’s Freedom Alliance ⓘ |
| mother | Sirimavo Bandaranaike ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the first female executive President of Sri Lanka
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initiating peace talks with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) ⓘ leading the People’s Alliance to victory in the 1994 Sri Lankan parliamentary election ⓘ surviving an assassination attempt in 1999 ⓘ |
| officeEndTime |
1994-11-12 (Prime Minister of Sri Lanka)
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2005-11-19 (President of Sri Lanka) ⓘ |
| officeStartTime |
1994-08-19 (Prime Minister of Sri Lanka)
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1994-11-12 (President of Sri Lanka) ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Chief Minister of Western Province, Sri Lanka
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Leader of the Opposition (Ceylon) ⓘ
surface form:
Leader of the Opposition of Sri Lanka
Minister of Buddhist Affairs of Sri Lanka ⓘ Minister of Defence and Finance of Sri Lanka ⓘ Minister of Defence of Sri Lanka ⓘ Minister of Education of Sri Lanka ⓘ Minister of Finance of Sri Lanka ⓘ Minister of Housing of Sri Lanka ⓘ Minister of Information of Sri Lanka ⓘ Minister of Information of Sri Lanka ⓘ
surface form:
Minister of Mass Media of Sri Lanka
Minister of Plan Implementation of Sri Lanka ⓘ Minister of Religious Affairs of Sri Lanka ⓘ Minister of Women’s Affairs of Sri Lanka ⓘ Minister of Youth Affairs of Sri Lanka ⓘ President of Sri Lanka ⓘ Prime Minister of Ceylon ⓘ
surface form:
Prime Minister of Sri Lanka
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| precededBy |
President of Sri Lanka
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surface form:
Dingiri Banda Wijetunga (as President of Sri Lanka)
Ranil Wickremesinghe (as Prime Minister of Sri Lanka in 1994) ⓘ |
| primeMinisterDuringPresidency |
Mahinda Rajapaksa
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Ranil Wickremesinghe ⓘ Ratnasiri Wickremanayake ⓘ Sirimavo Bandaranaike ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse | Vijaya Kumaratunga ⓘ |
| succeededBy |
Mahinda Rajapaksa
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surface form:
Mahinda Rajapaksa (as President of Sri Lanka)
Sirimavo Bandaranaike ⓘ
surface form:
Sirimavo Bandaranaike (as Prime Minister of Sri Lanka in 1994)
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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: Chandrika Kumaratunga (as Prime Minister in 1994) Description of subject: Chandrika Kumaratunga is a Sri Lankan politician who briefly served as Prime Minister in 1994 before becoming the country’s executive President and one of its most prominent contemporary leaders.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Chandrika Kumaratunga
this entity surface form:
Chandrika Kumaratunga
this entity surface form:
Chandrika Kumaratunga
Chandrika Kumaratunga (as Prime Minister in 1994)
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headOfGovernment
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Chandrika Kumaratunga (as Prime Minister in 1994)
self-linksurface differs
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subject surface form:
Chandrika Kumaratunga
this entity surface form:
Sri Lanka (as Prime Minister in 1994)