Shakti
E481538
Shakti is a pioneering Indo-jazz fusion band led by guitarist John McLaughlin, known for blending Indian classical music with jazz improvisation.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Shakti canonical | 4 |
| Shakti (album) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4942433 — 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: Shakti Context triple: [Mahavishnu Orchestra, associatedAct, Shakti]
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A.
Shaktas
Shaktas are followers of Shaktism, a Hindu tradition that worships the Divine Mother (Shakti/Devi) as the supreme reality and creative power.
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B.
Vasavi Shakti
Vasavi Shakti is the powerful divine spear given by the god Indra to the warrior Karna in the Indian epic Mahabharata, capable of killing any single opponent but usable only once.
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C.
Kalki
Kalki is the prophesied future incarnation of the Hindu god Vishnu who is foretold to appear at the end of the current age to restore righteousness and cosmic order.
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D.
Savitrī
Savitrī is a legendary heroine from the Mahābhārata renowned for her unwavering devotion and intelligence, who wins back her husband’s life from the god of death through courage and spiritual resolve.
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E.
Shivini
Shivini is the Urartian sun god, often associated with light, justice, and royal authority in the ancient Kingdom of Urartu.
- 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: Shakti Target entity description: Shakti is a pioneering Indo-jazz fusion band led by guitarist John McLaughlin, known for blending Indian classical music with jazz improvisation.
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A.
Shaktas
Shaktas are followers of Shaktism, a Hindu tradition that worships the Divine Mother (Shakti/Devi) as the supreme reality and creative power.
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B.
Vasavi Shakti
Vasavi Shakti is the powerful divine spear given by the god Indra to the warrior Karna in the Indian epic Mahabharata, capable of killing any single opponent but usable only once.
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C.
Kalki
Kalki is the prophesied future incarnation of the Hindu god Vishnu who is foretold to appear at the end of the current age to restore righteousness and cosmic order.
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D.
Savitrī
Savitrī is a legendary heroine from the Mahābhārata renowned for her unwavering devotion and intelligence, who wins back her husband’s life from the god of death through courage and spiritual resolve.
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E.
Shivini
Shivini is the Urartian sun god, often associated with light, justice, and royal authority in the ancient Kingdom of Urartu.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Shakti Description of subject: Shakti is a pioneering Indo-jazz fusion band led by guitarist John McLaughlin, known for blending Indian classical music with jazz improvisation.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Shakti