tabla
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The tabla is a pair of hand-played drums central to North Indian classical and folk music, known for its complex rhythms and tonal versatility.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| tabla canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4762611 — 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: tabla Context triple: [Lavani, usesInstrument, tabla]
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A.
Tababela
Tababela is a rural parish in the Quito Metropolitan District of Ecuador, known for hosting the city’s main air gateway, Mariscal Sucre International Airport.
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B.
Tabularium
The Tabularium was the official records office of ancient Rome, a monumental state archive building overlooking the Roman Forum.
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C.
TTable
TTable is a Delphi VCL data-access component that represents and manipulates an entire database table through a live, table-based dataset interface.
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D.
Tábua
Tábua is a municipality in central Portugal known for its rural landscapes, traditional villages, and location between the Mondego and Alva rivers.
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E.
TBL
TBL is the standard NHL abbreviation for the Tampa Bay Lightning professional ice hockey team.
- 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: tabla Target entity description: The tabla is a pair of hand-played drums central to North Indian classical and folk music, known for its complex rhythms and tonal versatility.
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A.
Tababela
Tababela is a rural parish in the Quito Metropolitan District of Ecuador, known for hosting the city’s main air gateway, Mariscal Sucre International Airport.
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B.
Tabularium
The Tabularium was the official records office of ancient Rome, a monumental state archive building overlooking the Roman Forum.
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C.
TTable
TTable is a Delphi VCL data-access component that represents and manipulates an entire database table through a live, table-based dataset interface.
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D.
Tábua
Tábua is a municipality in central Portugal known for its rural landscapes, traditional villages, and location between the Mondego and Alva rivers.
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E.
TBL
TBL is the standard NHL abbreviation for the Tampa Bay Lightning professional ice hockey team.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (58)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
hand drum
ⓘ
membranophone ⓘ musical instrument ⓘ |
| associatedWithGharana |
Ajrada gharana
ⓘ
linked to:
Delhi gharana
Benares gharana ⓘ
linked to:
Banaras (Varanasi) gharana
Delhi gharana ⓘ Farukhabad gharana ⓘ
linked to:
Delhi gharana
Lucknow gharana ⓘ Punjab gharana ⓘ |
| associatedWithRegion |
Bangladesh
ⓘ
North India ⓘ
linked to:
northern India
Pakistan ⓘ |
| associatedWithReligion |
Hinduism
ⓘ
Islam ⓘ |
| classificationSystem | Hornbostel–Sachs 211.2 (drums with two usable membranes) ⓘ |
| component |
baddhi (tension straps)
ⓘ
gatta (tuning blocks) ⓘ pudi (drumhead) ⓘ syahi (black spot) ⓘ |
| feature |
complex rhythms
ⓘ
distinctive timbre ⓘ pitch bending ⓘ tonal versatility ⓘ |
| hasConcept |
gat (fixed composition)
ⓘ
kaida (theme and variation) ⓘ peshkar (introductory composition) ⓘ rela (fast composition) ⓘ tala (rhythmic cycle) ⓘ theka (basic pattern) ⓘ tihai (cadential phrase) ⓘ |
| hasPart |
bayan
ⓘ
dayan ⓘ |
| material |
animal skin
ⓘ
metal ⓘ syahi (tuning paste) ⓘ wood ⓘ |
| notableExponentsInclude |
Ahmed Jan Thirakwa
ⓘ
Alla Rakha ⓘ Anindo Chatterjee ⓘ Kishan Maharaj ⓘ Swapan Chaudhuri ⓘ Zakir Hussain ⓘ |
| originatesFrom | Indian subcontinent ⓘ |
| playedWith |
fingers
ⓘ
palms ⓘ |
| playingTechnique |
bol system
ⓘ
stroke-based ⓘ |
| tunedTo | specific pitch ⓘ |
| typicalEnsemble |
Hindustani instrumental recital
ⓘ
Hindustani khayal performance ⓘ ghazal performance ⓘ qawwali ensemble ⓘ |
| usedAs | primary rhythmic accompaniment ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Hindustani classical music
ⓘ
Indian film music ⓘ North Indian folk music ⓘ devotional music ⓘ fusion music ⓘ |
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: tabla Description of subject: The tabla is a pair of hand-played drums central to North Indian classical and folk music, known for its complex rhythms and tonal versatility.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.