Yaśodharā
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Yaśodharā is traditionally regarded as the wife of Prince Siddhartha Gautama (who became the Buddha) and the mother of his son Rāhula in Buddhist narratives.
All labels observed (3)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2563160 — 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: Yaśodharā Context triple: [Shakyamuni Buddha, spouse, Yaśodharā]
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A.
Rukmini
Rukmini is a principal queen of the Hindu god Krishna, revered as an incarnation of the goddess Lakshmi and celebrated for her devotion and role in Krishna’s life.
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B.
Yashoda
Yashoda is the loving foster mother of the Hindu deity Krishna, revered for her deep maternal devotion and prominent role in his childhood stories.
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C.
Yashoda
Yashoda was the wife of Mahavira, the 24th Tirthankara of Jainism, and is traditionally regarded as his consort before he renounced worldly life.
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D.
Chitrangada
Chitrangada is a warrior princess from the Indian epic Mahabharata, known as one of Arjuna’s wives and the daughter of the king of Manipur.
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E.
Devaki
Devaki is a revered figure in Hindu mythology best known as the mother of Lord Krishna.
- 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: Yaśodharā Target entity description: Yaśodharā is traditionally regarded as the wife of Prince Siddhartha Gautama (who became the Buddha) and the mother of his son Rāhula in Buddhist narratives.
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A.
Rukmini
Rukmini is a principal queen of the Hindu god Krishna, revered as an incarnation of the goddess Lakshmi and celebrated for her devotion and role in Krishna’s life.
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B.
Yashoda
Yashoda is the loving foster mother of the Hindu deity Krishna, revered for her deep maternal devotion and prominent role in his childhood stories.
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C.
Yashoda
Yashoda was the wife of Mahavira, the 24th Tirthankara of Jainism, and is traditionally regarded as his consort before he renounced worldly life.
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D.
Chitrangada
Chitrangada is a warrior princess from the Indian epic Mahabharata, known as one of Arjuna’s wives and the daughter of the king of Manipur.
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E.
Devaki
Devaki is a revered figure in Hindu mythology best known as the mother of Lord Krishna.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Buddhist figure
ⓘ
historical figure ⓘ woman ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Jataka tales
ⓘ
surface form:
Buddhist Jātaka stories
Pāli commentarial literature ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Kapilavastu
ⓘ
Shakya clan ⓘ
surface form:
Śākya clan
|
| culturalContext | ancient Indian Buddhism ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| knownFor |
devotion to Siddhartha Gautama
ⓘ
patience and fidelity ⓘ renunciation in Buddhist narratives ⓘ |
| languageOfPrimarySources |
Pali
ⓘ
surface form:
Pāli
Sanskrit ⓘ |
| maritalStatusBeforeRenunciation | married to Siddhartha Gautama ⓘ |
| motherOf | Rāhula ⓘ |
| notableIn |
Buddhist tradition
ⓘ
Mahayana ⓘ
surface form:
Mahāyāna Buddhism
Theravada ⓘ
surface form:
Theravāda Buddhism
|
| religion | Buddhism ⓘ |
| roleInNarrative |
mother of Rāhula
ⓘ
wife of Prince Siddhartha ⓘ |
| spouseBecame |
Shakyamuni Buddha
ⓘ
surface form:
Buddha
|
| spouseOf |
Shakyamuni Buddha
ⓘ
surface form:
Gautama Buddha
Shakyamuni Buddha ⓘ
surface form:
Siddhartha Gautama
|
| timePeriod | 6th–5th century BCE (traditional) ⓘ |
| veneratedIn |
Burmese Buddhism
ⓘ
Buddhism in Sri Lanka ⓘ
surface form:
Sri Lankan Buddhism
Thai Buddhism ⓘ |
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: Yaśodharā Description of subject: Yaśodharā is traditionally regarded as the wife of Prince Siddhartha Gautama (who became the Buddha) and the mother of his son Rāhula in Buddhist narratives.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Yasoda