Aravinda de Silva
E453865
Aravinda de Silva is a former Sri Lankan cricketer renowned as one of the country’s greatest batsmen and a key architect of their 1996 Cricket World Cup triumph.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Aravinda de Silva canonical | 1 |
| Pinnaduwage Aravinda de Silva | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4573866 — 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: Aravinda de Silva Context triple: [Sri Lanka national cricket team, notableCaptain, Aravinda de Silva]
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A.
Ranjitsinhji
Ranjitsinhji was a celebrated early 20th-century cricketer and Indian prince of Nawanagar, renowned for revolutionizing batting technique and becoming one of the sport’s first global stars.
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B.
Digvijaysinhji Ranjitsinhji
Digvijaysinhji Ranjitsinhji was an Indian maharaja of Nawanagar and statesman known for his leadership during the British Raj and his humanitarian efforts, including sheltering Polish refugees during World War II.
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C.
Muthiah
Muthiah is the given name of M. A. Chidambaram, a prominent Indian industrialist and cricket administrator.
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D.
K. S. Duleepsinhji
K. S. Duleepsinhji was an Indian-born cricketer who played for England in the early 20th century and was renowned for his elegant batting and as a nephew of the legendary Ranjitsinhji.
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E.
W. A. Gayle
W. A. Gayle was the mayor of Montgomery, Alabama, during the mid-1950s whose administration was central to the landmark civil rights case Browder v. Gayle that ended bus segregation in the city.
- 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: Aravinda de Silva Target entity description: Aravinda de Silva is a former Sri Lankan cricketer renowned as one of the country’s greatest batsmen and a key architect of their 1996 Cricket World Cup triumph.
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A.
Ranjitsinhji
Ranjitsinhji was a celebrated early 20th-century cricketer and Indian prince of Nawanagar, renowned for revolutionizing batting technique and becoming one of the sport’s first global stars.
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B.
Digvijaysinhji Ranjitsinhji
Digvijaysinhji Ranjitsinhji was an Indian maharaja of Nawanagar and statesman known for his leadership during the British Raj and his humanitarian efforts, including sheltering Polish refugees during World War II.
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C.
Muthiah
Muthiah is the given name of M. A. Chidambaram, a prominent Indian industrialist and cricket administrator.
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D.
K. S. Duleepsinhji
K. S. Duleepsinhji was an Indian-born cricketer who played for England in the early 20th century and was renowned for his elegant batting and as a nephew of the legendary Ranjitsinhji.
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E.
W. A. Gayle
W. A. Gayle was the mayor of Montgomery, Alabama, during the mid-1950s whose administration was central to the landmark civil rights case Browder v. Gayle that ended bus segregation in the city.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
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: Aravinda de Silva Description of subject: Aravinda de Silva is a former Sri Lankan cricketer renowned as one of the country’s greatest batsmen and a key architect of their 1996 Cricket World Cup triumph.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Aravinda de Silva