Daśapura
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Daśapura is the ancient name of the city now known as Mandsaur in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, historically noted for its role as a regional center in central India.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dasapura | 1 |
| Dashpur (ancient name of Mandsaur) | 1 |
| Daśapura canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4664231 — 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: Daśapura Context triple: [Mandsaur, historicalName, Daśapura]
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A.
Pavapuri
Pavapuri is a revered Jain pilgrimage site in Bihar, India, best known as the place where Mahavira, the 24th Tirthankara, attained nirvana.
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B.
Dahanapura
Dahanapura was the principal city and political center of the historical Kediri Kingdom in Java.
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C.
Indrapura
Indrapura was a prominent historical capital city of the Champa kingdom in what is now central Vietnam.
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D.
Sapta Puri
Sapta Puri are the seven most sacred pilgrimage cities in Hinduism, believed to grant spiritual liberation to devotees who visit them.
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E.
Vikrampura
Vikrampura was an important historical city that served as a principal royal center of the medieval Indian Pala dynasty in eastern India.
- 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: Daśapura Target entity description: Daśapura is the ancient name of the city now known as Mandsaur in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, historically noted for its role as a regional center in central India.
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A.
Pavapuri
Pavapuri is a revered Jain pilgrimage site in Bihar, India, best known as the place where Mahavira, the 24th Tirthankara, attained nirvana.
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B.
Dahanapura
Dahanapura was the principal city and political center of the historical Kediri Kingdom in Java.
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C.
Indrapura
Indrapura was a prominent historical capital city of the Champa kingdom in what is now central Vietnam.
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D.
Sapta Puri
Sapta Puri are the seven most sacred pilgrimage cities in Hinduism, believed to grant spiritual liberation to devotees who visit them.
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E.
Vikrampura
Vikrampura was an important historical city that served as a principal royal center of the medieval Indian Pala dynasty in eastern India.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ancient place
ⓘ
former name of city ⓘ historical city ⓘ |
| country | India ⓘ |
| etymology | name derived from Sanskrit words meaning "ten cities" or "ten fortresses" ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Dasapura
ⓘ
linked to:
Daśapura
|
| hasAlternativeTransliteration | Dashapura ⓘ |
| hasCurrentAdministrativeUnit |
Mandsaur
ⓘ
linked to:
Mandsaur district
|
| hasModernName | Mandsaur ⓘ |
| hasStatus | historical name ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | ancient India ⓘ |
| historicalRole | regional center in central India ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Sanskrit ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
India
ⓘ
Madhya Pradesh ⓘ Mandsaur district ⓘ |
| locatedInHistoricalRegion | Malwa ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | central India ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Malwa Plateau ⓘ |
| partOf |
Indian subcontinent
ⓘ
linked to:
South Asia
|
| precedes | Mandsaur ⓘ |
| regionType | urban center ⓘ |
| replacedByName | Mandsaur ⓘ |
| usedAsNameUntil | early medieval period (approximate) ⓘ |
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: Daśapura Description of subject: Daśapura is the ancient name of the city now known as Mandsaur in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, historically noted for its role as a regional center in central India.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Daśapura
linked to: Daśapura