Madra
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Madra was an ancient kingdom in the northwest of the Indian subcontinent, frequently mentioned in the Mahabharata and associated with figures like King Shalya and the Pandava prince Nakula.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Madra canonical | 6 |
| Madra (in epic tradition) | 1 |
| माद्री | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5129531 — 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: Madra Context triple: [Nakula, kingdom, Madra]
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A.
Madura
Madura is an island off the northeastern coast of Java in Indonesia, known for its distinct Madurese culture and traditional bull races.
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B.
Shimsha
Shimsha is a river in southern India that flows through Karnataka and is known for its waterfalls and contribution to the Kaveri river system.
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C.
Chanda
Chanda was a historical kingdom associated with the Gond people, an indigenous community of central India.
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D.
Soyarabai
Soyarabai was a Maratha queen and consort of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, known as the mother of Rajaram I and a key figure in the politics of the early Maratha Empire.
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E.
Kishkindha
Kishkindha is the mythical monkey kingdom ruled by Sugriva in the Indian epic Ramayana, where Rama forms an alliance with the vanara army to search for Sita.
- 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: Madra Target entity description: Madra was an ancient kingdom in the northwest of the Indian subcontinent, frequently mentioned in the Mahabharata and associated with figures like King Shalya and the Pandava prince Nakula.
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A.
Madura
Madura is an island off the northeastern coast of Java in Indonesia, known for its distinct Madurese culture and traditional bull races.
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B.
Shimsha
Shimsha is a river in southern India that flows through Karnataka and is known for its waterfalls and contribution to the Kaveri river system.
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C.
Chanda
Chanda was a historical kingdom associated with the Gond people, an indigenous community of central India.
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D.
Soyarabai
Soyarabai was a Maratha queen and consort of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, known as the mother of Rajaram I and a key figure in the politics of the early Maratha Empire.
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E.
Kishkindha
Kishkindha is the mythical monkey kingdom ruled by Sugriva in the Indian epic Ramayana, where Rama forms an alliance with the vanara army to search for Sita.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Mahabharata kingdom
ⓘ
ancient kingdom ⓘ historical region ⓘ |
| alliedWith | Kaurava army at Kurukshetra ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Madradesa
ⓘ
Madrarashtra ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Adi Parva of the Mahabharata
ⓘ
linked to:
Adi Parva
Bhishma Parva of the Mahabharata ⓘ
linked to:
Bhīṣma Parva
Shalya Parva of the Mahabharata ⓘ
linked to:
Shalya Parva
Udyoga Parva of the Mahabharata ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Kauravas
ⓘ
King Shalya ⓘ Nakula ⓘ Pandavas ⓘ |
| borderedBy |
Gandhara
ⓘ
linked to:
Kamboja–Gandhara region
Kamboja ⓘ
linked to:
Kambojas
Kurukshetra region ⓘ
linked to:
Kurukshetra district
|
| capital | Sagala ⓘ |
| culture | Vedic Indo-Aryan culture ⓘ |
| dynasty | Madra royal house ⓘ |
| economy | agro-pastoral ⓘ |
| ethnonym | Madra people ⓘ |
| knownFor |
chariot warriors
ⓘ
marital alliances with Kuru dynasty ⓘ skilled warriors ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Indo-Aryan
ⓘ
linked to:
Indo-Aryan languages
|
| locatedIn |
ancient India
ⓘ
northwest of the Indian subcontinent ⓘ |
| maritalAlliance |
Kunti’s sister Madri from Madra
ⓘ
Madri married to Pandu ⓘ |
| mentionedIn | Mahabharata ⓘ |
| militaryLeader | King Shalya ⓘ |
| politicalStatus | independent kingdom in epic period ⓘ |
| presentDayApproximation | parts of modern Punjab region ⓘ |
| presentDayCountries |
India
ⓘ
Pakistan ⓘ |
| primarySource |
Sanskrit Mahabharata
ⓘ
linked to:
Mahabharata
|
| regionType | kingdom of the Punjab region (ancient) ⓘ |
| relatedFigure |
Madri
ⓘ
Pandu ⓘ Sahadeva ⓘ |
| religion |
Vedic religion
ⓘ
linked to:
Vedic Hinduism
|
| ruler |
Ashvapati
ⓘ
Brihadbala of Madra (in some traditions) ⓘ
linked to:
Brihadbala
King Shalya ⓘ |
| sourceType | epic literature ⓘ |
| tribe | Madra tribe ⓘ |
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: Madra Description of subject: Madra was an ancient kingdom in the northwest of the Indian subcontinent, frequently mentioned in the Mahabharata and associated with figures like King Shalya and the Pandava prince Nakula.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Madra