Tarun Tejpal
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Tarun Tejpal is an Indian journalist, publisher, and novelist best known as the founder and former editor-in-chief of the investigative news magazine Tehelka.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tarun Tejpal canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4685821 — 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: Tarun Tejpal Context triple: [The Doon School, hasNotableAlumni, Tarun Tejpal]
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A.
Rohinton Mistry
Rohinton Mistry is an Indian-born Canadian author renowned for his richly detailed novels about Parsi life and modern India, including the acclaimed "A Fine Balance."
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B.
Vikram Seth
Vikram Seth is an acclaimed Indian author and poet best known for his epic novel "A Suitable Boy" and his diverse body of work spanning fiction, poetry, and non-fiction.
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C.
Vikas Swarup
Vikas Swarup is an Indian diplomat and novelist best known for his debut novel "Q & A," which was adapted into the Oscar-winning film "Slumdog Millionaire."
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D.
Arundhati Roy
Arundhati Roy is an Indian author and activist best known for her Booker Prize–winning novel "The God of Small Things" and her outspoken political commentary on social and environmental justice.
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E.
Bhuvan Shome
Bhuvan Shome is a landmark 1969 Indian film by Mrinal Sen, widely credited with helping launch the New Indian Cinema movement through its innovative, low-budget, and realist storytelling.
- 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: Tarun Tejpal Target entity description: Tarun Tejpal is an Indian journalist, publisher, and novelist best known as the founder and former editor-in-chief of the investigative news magazine Tehelka.
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A.
Rohinton Mistry
Rohinton Mistry is an Indian-born Canadian author renowned for his richly detailed novels about Parsi life and modern India, including the acclaimed "A Fine Balance."
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B.
Vikram Seth
Vikram Seth is an acclaimed Indian author and poet best known for his epic novel "A Suitable Boy" and his diverse body of work spanning fiction, poetry, and non-fiction.
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C.
Vikas Swarup
Vikas Swarup is an Indian diplomat and novelist best known for his debut novel "Q & A," which was adapted into the Oscar-winning film "Slumdog Millionaire."
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D.
Arundhati Roy
Arundhati Roy is an Indian author and activist best known for her Booker Prize–winning novel "The God of Small Things" and her outspoken political commentary on social and environmental justice.
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E.
Bhuvan Shome
Bhuvan Shome is a landmark 1969 Indian film by Mrinal Sen, widely credited with helping launch the New Indian Cinema movement through its innovative, low-budget, and realist storytelling.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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journalist ⓘ novelist ⓘ publisher ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Le Prix Relay du Roman d’Evasion (for The Alchemy of Desire)
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Prix Millepages (for The Alchemy of Desire) ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | India ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Delhi University
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linked to:
University of Delhi
|
| employer |
India Today (past)
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Outlook (past) ⓘ Tehelka ⓘ |
| founded | Tehelka ⓘ |
| genre |
fiction
ⓘ
literary fiction ⓘ |
| hasRole | investigative journalist ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | Hindi ⓘ |
| notableFor |
founding Tehelka magazine
ⓘ
investigative journalism in India ⓘ political exposés in Tehelka ⓘ |
| notableWork |
The Alchemy of Desire
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The Story of My Assassins ⓘ The Valley of Masks ⓘ |
| occupation |
journalist
ⓘ
novelist ⓘ publisher ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | India ⓘ |
| positionHeld | editor-in-chief of Tehelka ⓘ |
| residence | India ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
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: Tarun Tejpal Description of subject: Tarun Tejpal is an Indian journalist, publisher, and novelist best known as the founder and former editor-in-chief of the investigative news magazine Tehelka.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Doon School