Ambika
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Ambika is a queen in the Indian epic Mahabharata, known as one of the wives of King Vichitravirya and the mother of the Kuru king Dhritarashtra.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ambika canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4523728 — 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: Ambika Context triple: [Dhritarashtra, mother, Ambika]
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A.
Shravika
Shravika is the term in Jainism for a female lay follower who observes religious vows and practices while living a household life.
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B.
Chitrangada
Chitrangada is a warrior princess from the Indian epic Mahabharata, known as one of Arjuna’s wives and the daughter of the king of Manipur.
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C.
Aditi
Aditi is a Vedic mother goddess in Hindu mythology, revered as the personification of boundlessness and the mother of many deities.
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D.
Madhavi
Madhavi is a celebrated courtesan and pivotal literary figure in ancient Tamil epic tradition, prominently featured in the Sangam-era works Silappatikaram and its sequel Manimekalai.
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E.
Rukmini
Rukmini is a principal queen of the Hindu god Krishna, revered as an incarnation of the goddess Lakshmi and celebrated for her devotion and role in Krishna’s life.
- 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: Ambika Target entity description: Ambika is a queen in the Indian epic Mahabharata, known as one of the wives of King Vichitravirya and the mother of the Kuru king Dhritarashtra.
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A.
Shravika
Shravika is the term in Jainism for a female lay follower who observes religious vows and practices while living a household life.
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B.
Chitrangada
Chitrangada is a warrior princess from the Indian epic Mahabharata, known as one of Arjuna’s wives and the daughter of the king of Manipur.
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C.
Aditi
Aditi is a Vedic mother goddess in Hindu mythology, revered as the personification of boundlessness and the mother of many deities.
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D.
Madhavi
Madhavi is a celebrated courtesan and pivotal literary figure in ancient Tamil epic tradition, prominently featured in the Sangam-era works Silappatikaram and its sequel Manimekalai.
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E.
Rukmini
Rukmini is a principal queen of the Hindu god Krishna, revered as an incarnation of the goddess Lakshmi and celebrated for her devotion and role in Krishna’s life.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Hindu epic character
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mythological character ⓘ queen in the Mahabharata ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Mahabharata ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Kuru dynasty ⓘ |
| consortInNiyoga | Vyasa ⓘ |
| coWifeOf |
Ambalika
ⓘ
a maid of Ambalika ⓘ |
| culture | Ancient Indian ⓘ |
| daughterOf | Kashi king ⓘ |
| gaveBirthTo | Dhritarashtra ⓘ |
| grandmotherOf | Kauravas ⓘ |
| languageOfTradition | Sanskrit ⓘ |
| marriageArrangedBy | Bhishma ⓘ |
| marriedIn | svayamvara of the princesses of Kashi ⓘ |
| motherInLawOf | Gandhari ⓘ |
| motherOf | Dhritarashtra ⓘ |
| practiced | niyoga with Vyasa ⓘ |
| reasonForBlindSon | closed her eyes during union with Vyasa ⓘ |
| relatedToTheme |
dynastic succession
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royal lineage preservation ⓘ widowhood and duty ⓘ |
| religion | Hinduism ⓘ |
| residedIn | Hastinapura ⓘ |
| roleInSuccession | mother of heir to Kuru throne ⓘ |
| sisterOf | Ambalika ⓘ |
| sonCharacteristic | Dhritarashtra was born blind ⓘ |
| spouseOf | Vichitravirya ⓘ |
| textualSource | Critical tradition of the Mahabharata ⓘ |
| widowOf | Vichitravirya ⓘ |
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: Ambika Description of subject: Ambika is a queen in the Indian epic Mahabharata, known as one of the wives of King Vichitravirya and the mother of the Kuru king Dhritarashtra.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.