Damodardas Mulchand Modi
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Damodardas Mulchand Modi was an Indian shopkeeper from Vadnagar, Gujarat, best known as the father of India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Damodardas Mulchand Modi canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6105202 — 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: Damodardas Mulchand Modi Context triple: [Narendra Modi, father, Damodardas Mulchand Modi]
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A.
Narendra Modi
Narendra Modi is an Indian politician and leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) known for his strong central leadership, economic and infrastructure initiatives, and prominent role in shaping contemporary Indian politics.
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B.
Modi
Modi is a figure from Norse mythology, known as one of the sons of the thunder god Thor and associated with courage or wrath.
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C.
Ram Nath Kovind
Ram Nath Kovind is an Indian politician and lawyer who served as the 14th President of India from 2017 to 2022.
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D.
Ahmed Patel
Ahmed Patel was a senior Indian National Congress politician and close aide to Sonia Gandhi, known for his influential backroom role in national politics.
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E.
Jyotiraditya Scindia
Jyotiraditya Scindia is an Indian politician and member of parliament from a prominent royal family of Gwalior, known for holding key ministerial positions in the central government.
- 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: Damodardas Mulchand Modi Target entity description: Damodardas Mulchand Modi was an Indian shopkeeper from Vadnagar, Gujarat, best known as the father of India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
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A.
Narendra Modi
Narendra Modi is an Indian politician and leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) known for his strong central leadership, economic and infrastructure initiatives, and prominent role in shaping contemporary Indian politics.
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B.
Modi
Modi is a figure from Norse mythology, known as one of the sons of the thunder god Thor and associated with courage or wrath.
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C.
Ram Nath Kovind
Ram Nath Kovind is an Indian politician and lawyer who served as the 14th President of India from 2017 to 2022.
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D.
Ahmed Patel
Ahmed Patel was a senior Indian National Congress politician and close aide to Sonia Gandhi, known for his influential backroom role in national politics.
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E.
Jyotiraditya Scindia
Jyotiraditya Scindia is an Indian politician and member of parliament from a prominent royal family of Gwalior, known for holding key ministerial positions in the central government.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (18)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Indian citizen
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human ⓘ |
| child | Narendra Modi ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | India ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Gujarati people ⓘ |
| knownFor | being the father of Narendra Modi ⓘ |
| name | Damodardas Mulchand Modi ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | Gujarati ⓘ |
| notableWork | running a tea stall and small shop in Vadnagar ⓘ |
| occupation | shopkeeper ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Gujarat
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Vadnagar ⓘ |
| placeOfResidence |
Gujarat
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Vadnagar ⓘ |
| relative |
Hiraba Modi
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Narendra Modi ⓘ |
| religion | Hinduism ⓘ |
| spouse | Hiraba Modi ⓘ |
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: Damodardas Mulchand Modi Description of subject: Damodardas Mulchand Modi was an Indian shopkeeper from Vadnagar, Gujarat, best known as the father of India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.