Prahasta
E486054
Prahasta is a powerful rakshasa commander in the Hindu epic Ramayana, serving as one of Ravana’s chief generals in the war against Rama.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Prahasta canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5010257 — 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: Prahasta Context triple: [Ravana, child, Prahasta]
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A.
Firiplaka
Firiplaka is a scenic, volcanic-sand beach on the Greek island of Milos, known for its colorful cliffs and clear turquoise waters.
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B.
Boorga
Boorga is a small rural locality within the Hay Shire local government area in New South Wales, Australia.
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C.
Paeligni
The Paeligni were an ancient Italic tribe of central Italy, closely associated with the Samnites and known for their role in early Roman history and the Social War.
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D.
Mazaces
Mazaces was a late Achaemenid Persian official who briefly governed Egypt as satrap during the empire’s final years before Alexander the Great’s conquest.
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E.
Hyllus
Hyllus is a figure in Greek mythology known as the son of Heracles and Deianira, often associated with the Dorian invasion and the Heracleidae.
- 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: Prahasta Target entity description: Prahasta is a powerful rakshasa commander in the Hindu epic Ramayana, serving as one of Ravana’s chief generals in the war against Rama.
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A.
Firiplaka
Firiplaka is a scenic, volcanic-sand beach on the Greek island of Milos, known for its colorful cliffs and clear turquoise waters.
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B.
Boorga
Boorga is a small rural locality within the Hay Shire local government area in New South Wales, Australia.
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C.
Paeligni
The Paeligni were an ancient Italic tribe of central Italy, closely associated with the Samnites and known for their role in early Roman history and the Social War.
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D.
Mazaces
Mazaces was a late Achaemenid Persian official who briefly governed Egypt as satrap during the empire’s final years before Alexander the Great’s conquest.
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E.
Hyllus
Hyllus is a figure in Greek mythology known as the son of Heracles and Deianira, often associated with the Dorian invasion and the Heracleidae.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
character in the Ramayana
ⓘ
mythological character ⓘ rakshasa ⓘ |
| affiliation | Ravana ⓘ |
| allegiance |
Lanka
ⓘ
Ravana ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Ramayana ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Lanka kingdom
ⓘ
linked to:
kingdom of Lanka
|
| deathCause | killed in battle ⓘ |
| deathPlace | battlefield outside Lanka ⓘ |
| enemyOf |
Rama
ⓘ
Vanara army ⓘ |
| ethnicity | rakshasa ⓘ |
| familyRelation | maternal uncle of Ravana ⓘ |
| killedBy | Nila ⓘ |
| languageOfSources | Sanskrit texts ⓘ |
| notableFor |
commanding rakshasa armies
ⓘ
military prowess ⓘ |
| occupation |
commander
ⓘ
general ⓘ |
| participatedIn | war between Rama and Ravana ⓘ |
| religion | Hinduism ⓘ |
| role | chief general of Ravana ⓘ |
| servedAs |
commander-in-chief of Lanka's forces
ⓘ
minister of Ravana ⓘ |
| servedUnder | Ravana ⓘ |
| sideInWar | Ravana's side in the Rama–Ravana war ⓘ |
| textualTradition |
Valmiki Ramayana
ⓘ
linked to:
Ramayana
later Ramayana retellings ⓘ |
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: Prahasta Description of subject: Prahasta is a powerful rakshasa commander in the Hindu epic Ramayana, serving as one of Ravana’s chief generals in the war against Rama.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.