Dashapura
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Dashapura is the ancient name of the city now known as Mandsaur in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, historically significant as a regional center in western India.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dashapura canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4664230 — 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: Dashapura Context triple: [Mandsaur, historicalName, Dashapura]
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A.
Rajasuya
Rajasuya is an ancient Vedic royal consecration ritual performed to legitimize and exalt a king’s sovereignty and supreme status.
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B.
Gautamiputra Satakarni
Gautamiputra Satakarni was a powerful 2nd-century CE Indian king renowned for reviving and expanding the Satavahana Empire and resisting foreign Indo-Scythian and Indo-Parthian powers.
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C.
Vasudeva I
Vasudeva I was a prominent Kushan emperor of the early 3rd century CE, known for consolidating the empire’s power in northern India and promoting a syncretic culture blending Indian, Iranian, and Hellenistic influences.
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D.
Yasovarman I
Yasovarman I was a 9th–10th century Khmer king best known for founding the city of Yasodharapura (Angkor) and initiating the monumental temple-building tradition of the Angkorian Empire.
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E.
Satakarni I
Satakarni I was an early and powerful king of the Satavahana dynasty in ancient India, known for expanding its territory and consolidating its rule in the Deccan region.
- 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: Dashapura Target entity description: Dashapura is the ancient name of the city now known as Mandsaur in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, historically significant as a regional center in western India.
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A.
Rajasuya
Rajasuya is an ancient Vedic royal consecration ritual performed to legitimize and exalt a king’s sovereignty and supreme status.
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B.
Gautamiputra Satakarni
Gautamiputra Satakarni was a powerful 2nd-century CE Indian king renowned for reviving and expanding the Satavahana Empire and resisting foreign Indo-Scythian and Indo-Parthian powers.
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C.
Vasudeva I
Vasudeva I was a prominent Kushan emperor of the early 3rd century CE, known for consolidating the empire’s power in northern India and promoting a syncretic culture blending Indian, Iranian, and Hellenistic influences.
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D.
Yasovarman I
Yasovarman I was a 9th–10th century Khmer king best known for founding the city of Yasodharapura (Angkor) and initiating the monumental temple-building tradition of the Angkorian Empire.
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E.
Satakarni I
Satakarni I was an early and powerful king of the Satavahana dynasty in ancient India, known for expanding its territory and consolidating its rule in the Deccan region.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ancient city
ⓘ
historical place ⓘ |
| archaeologicalStatus | inhabited archaeological site ⓘ |
| associatedDynasty |
Aulikara dynasty
ⓘ
Gupta Empire ⓘ Maitraka dynasty ⓘ |
| country | India ⓘ |
| culturalRegion | Malwa Plateau ⓘ |
| economicActivity |
center of silk weaving
ⓘ
center of textile trade ⓘ |
| etymologyStatus | uncertain ⓘ |
| governedBy |
Gupta rulers
ⓘ
linked to:
Gupta Empire
local Aulikara chiefs ⓘ |
| hasHeritage |
inscriptional records
ⓘ
temple remains ⓘ |
| historicalNameOf | Mandsaur ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod |
Gupta period
ⓘ
linked to:
Gupta Empire
early medieval India ⓘ |
| historicalRegion |
Avanti
ⓘ
Malwa ⓘ |
| knownFrom |
Aulikara inscriptions
ⓘ
linked to:
Dashapura inscriptions
Gupta-period inscriptions ⓘ Sanskrit inscriptions ⓘ |
| languageOfInscriptions | Sanskrit ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Madhya Pradesh
ⓘ
western India ⓘ
linked to:
Western India
|
| locatedInDistrict | Mandsaur district ⓘ |
| locatedOnRiver | Shivna River ⓘ |
| mentionedIn |
Dashapura stone inscription of Kumaragupta I
ⓘ
Mandsaur silk weavers inscription ⓘ |
| modernSuccessor | Mandsaur ⓘ |
| partOfAncientRoute | trade routes of western India ⓘ |
| presentDayName | Mandsaur ⓘ |
| regionType | urban center ⓘ |
| religiousSignificance |
site of Buddhist establishments
ⓘ
site of Hindu temples ⓘ |
| scriptOfInscriptions |
Gupta Brahmi
ⓘ
linked to:
Gupta script
|
| significance | regional center in western India ⓘ |
| timeInhabitedSince | at least early centuries CE ⓘ |
| urbanStatus | fortified town in antiquity ⓘ |
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: Dashapura Description of subject: Dashapura is the ancient name of the city now known as Mandsaur in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, historically significant as a regional center in western India.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.