Devika
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Devika is a lesser-known queen in the Mahabharata, married to Yudhishthira and noted primarily as the mother of his son Yaudheya.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Devika canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5060954 — 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: Devika Context triple: [Yudhishthira, spouse, Devika]
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A.
Nandana
Nandana is a person known primarily as the sibling of Nanda, a figure mentioned in historical and/or cultural contexts.
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B.
Savithri
Savithri was a legendary Indian actress renowned for her powerful performances and enduring impact on Tamil and South Indian cinema.
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C.
Bhumika
Bhumika is a critically acclaimed 1977 Indian Hindi-language film directed by Shyam Benegal, known for its powerful portrayal of a woman's struggle for identity and autonomy.
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D.
Ratna Mohini
Ratna Mohini was a Javanese-born dancer and the second wife of renowned French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson.
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E.
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.
- 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: Devika Target entity description: Devika is a lesser-known queen in the Mahabharata, married to Yudhishthira and noted primarily as the mother of his son Yaudheya.
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A.
Nandana
Nandana is a person known primarily as the sibling of Nanda, a figure mentioned in historical and/or cultural contexts.
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B.
Savithri
Savithri was a legendary Indian actress renowned for her powerful performances and enduring impact on Tamil and South Indian cinema.
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C.
Bhumika
Bhumika is a critically acclaimed 1977 Indian Hindi-language film directed by Shyam Benegal, known for its powerful portrayal of a woman's struggle for identity and autonomy.
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D.
Ratna Mohini
Ratna Mohini was a Javanese-born dancer and the second wife of renowned French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (23)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
character in the Mahabharata
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mythological queen ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Mahabharata ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Kuru dynasty ⓘ |
| childIs | Yaudheya ⓘ |
| culture | ancient Indian ⓘ |
| father | Yudhishthira ⓘ |
| fictionalStatus | mythological figure ⓘ |
| hasChild | Yaudheya ⓘ |
| hasGender | female ⓘ |
| hasRole |
queen
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wife of a Pandava ⓘ |
| husbandIs | Yudhishthira ⓘ |
| languageOfSourceTexts | Sanskrit ⓘ |
| mentionedIn | epic literature ⓘ |
| mother | Devika ⓘ |
| motherOf | Yaudheya ⓘ |
| notedAs | lesser-known queen in the Mahabharata ⓘ |
| notedFor |
being a lesser-known wife of Yudhishthira
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being the mother of Yaudheya ⓘ |
| religion | Hinduism ⓘ |
| spouse |
Devika
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Yudhishthira ⓘ |
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: Devika Description of subject: Devika is a lesser-known queen in the Mahabharata, married to Yudhishthira and noted primarily as the mother of his son Yaudheya.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.