Dharma Parakramabahu IX
E408045
Dharma Parakramabahu IX was a late 15th- to early 16th-century monarch of Sri Lanka who ruled the Kingdom of Kotte during a period of internal dynastic struggles and emerging European influence in the region.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bhuvanekabahu VII of Kotte | 1 |
| Dharma Parakramabahu | 1 |
| Dharma Parakramabahu IX canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3912274 — 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: Dharma Parakramabahu IX Context triple: [Kingdom of Kotte, notableRuler, Dharma Parakramabahu IX]
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A.
Parakramabahu VI
Parakramabahu VI was a 15th-century Sri Lankan monarch renowned for unifying much of the island and presiding over a flourishing period of literature and trade.
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B.
Bhuvanekabahu VII
Bhuvanekabahu VII was a 16th-century king of the Kingdom of Kotte in Sri Lanka, known for his reign during a period of increasing Portuguese influence on the island.
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C.
Sri Vikrama Rajasinha
Sri Vikrama Rajasinha was the final king of the Sinhalese monarchy in Sri Lanka, whose reign ended with the British annexation of his kingdom in the early 19th century.
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D.
Kirti Sri Rajasinha
Kirti Sri Rajasinha was an 18th-century king of the Kingdom of Kandy in Sri Lanka, known for reviving Buddhism and resisting European colonial influence.
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E.
Kertarajasa Jayawardhana
Kertarajasa Jayawardhana was the regnal name of Raden Wijaya, the founder and first king of the Majapahit Empire in Java.
- 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: Dharma Parakramabahu IX Target entity description: Dharma Parakramabahu IX was a late 15th- to early 16th-century monarch of Sri Lanka who ruled the Kingdom of Kotte during a period of internal dynastic struggles and emerging European influence in the region.
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A.
Parakramabahu VI
Parakramabahu VI was a 15th-century Sri Lankan monarch renowned for unifying much of the island and presiding over a flourishing period of literature and trade.
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B.
Bhuvanekabahu VII
Bhuvanekabahu VII was a 16th-century king of the Kingdom of Kotte in Sri Lanka, known for his reign during a period of increasing Portuguese influence on the island.
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C.
Sri Vikrama Rajasinha
Sri Vikrama Rajasinha was the final king of the Sinhalese monarchy in Sri Lanka, whose reign ended with the British annexation of his kingdom in the early 19th century.
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D.
Kirti Sri Rajasinha
Kirti Sri Rajasinha was an 18th-century king of the Kingdom of Kandy in Sri Lanka, known for reviving Buddhism and resisting European colonial influence.
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E.
Kertarajasa Jayawardhana
Kertarajasa Jayawardhana was the regnal name of Raden Wijaya, the founder and first king of the Majapahit Empire in Java.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
King of Kotte
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Sri Lankan monarch ⓘ monarch ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Portuguese arrival in the Indian Ocean region ⓘ |
| capital | Kotte ⓘ |
| conflictContext | internecine royal disputes in Kotte ⓘ |
| continent | Asia ⓘ |
| country | Kingdom of Kotte ⓘ |
| dynasticContext | internal dynastic struggles in Kotte ⓘ |
| era | late medieval Sri Lanka ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Sinhalese ⓘ |
| governmentForm | monarchy ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | pre‑colonial Sri Lanka ⓘ |
| knownFor | ruling during early phase of European influence in Sri Lanka ⓘ |
| languageOfCourt | Sinhala ⓘ |
| monarchOf |
Kingdom of Kotte
ⓘ
surface form:
Kotte Kingdom
|
| politicalContext |
competition among Kotte royal claimants
ⓘ
emergence of European influence in Sri Lanka ⓘ |
| predecessor | Parakramabahu VIII ⓘ |
| region | South Asia ⓘ |
| reignEnd | early 16th century ⓘ |
| reignStart | late 15th century ⓘ |
| religion | Buddhism ⓘ |
| royalHouse |
Kingdom of Kotte
ⓘ
surface form:
House of Kotte
|
| ruledIn | Sri Lanka ⓘ |
| sovereignOf | Sinhalese people of Kotte ⓘ |
| successor | Vijayabahu VI ⓘ |
| title |
Dharma Parakramabahu IX
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Dharma Parakramabahu
King of Kotte ⓘ |
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: Dharma Parakramabahu IX Description of subject: Dharma Parakramabahu IX was a late 15th- to early 16th-century monarch of Sri Lanka who ruled the Kingdom of Kotte during a period of internal dynastic struggles and emerging European influence in the region.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Bhuvanekabahu VII of Kotte
this entity surface form:
Dharma Parakramabahu