Dhauli
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Dhauli is a historic site in Odisha, India, renowned as the place where the ancient Kalinga War occurred and where Emperor Ashoka is believed to have embraced Buddhism, marked by rock edicts and a prominent peace pagoda.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dhauli canonical | 6 |
| elephant capital of Dhauli | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6228051 — 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: Dhauli Context triple: [Kalinga, archaeologicalSite, Dhauli]
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A.
Koregaon Bhima
Koregaon Bhima is a village in Maharashtra, India, historically significant as the site of the 1818 Battle of Koregaon and a major focal point of Dalit commemoration and politics.
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B.
Baghat
Baghat was a small princely state in colonial India that was incorporated into British-controlled territory during the 19th century.
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C.
Parashurama Kshetra
Parashurama Kshetra is a revered coastal sacred region in Karnataka, India, traditionally believed to have been reclaimed from the sea by the sage Parashurama and renowned for its numerous ancient temples and pilgrimage sites.
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D.
Dharmakshetra
Dharmakshetra is the sacred battlefield of Kurukshetra in the Indian epic Mahabharata, revered as a holy site where the Bhagavad Gita was spoken.
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E.
Kanchrapara
Kanchrapara is a town in the North 24 Parganas district of West Bengal, India, known historically for its railway workshop and suburban connectivity to Kolkata.
- 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: Dhauli Target entity description: Dhauli is a historic site in Odisha, India, renowned as the place where the ancient Kalinga War occurred and where Emperor Ashoka is believed to have embraced Buddhism, marked by rock edicts and a prominent peace pagoda.
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A.
Koregaon Bhima
Koregaon Bhima is a village in Maharashtra, India, historically significant as the site of the 1818 Battle of Koregaon and a major focal point of Dalit commemoration and politics.
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B.
Baghat
Baghat was a small princely state in colonial India that was incorporated into British-controlled territory during the 19th century.
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C.
Parashurama Kshetra
Parashurama Kshetra is a revered coastal sacred region in Karnataka, India, traditionally believed to have been reclaimed from the sea by the sage Parashurama and renowned for its numerous ancient temples and pilgrimage sites.
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D.
Dharmakshetra
Dharmakshetra is the sacred battlefield of Kurukshetra in the Indian epic Mahabharata, revered as a holy site where the Bhagavad Gita was spoken.
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E.
Kanchrapara
Kanchrapara is a town in the North 24 Parganas district of West Bengal, India, known historically for its railway workshop and suburban connectivity to Kolkata.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Buddhist pilgrimage site
ⓘ
Mauryan emperor ⓘ ancient war ⓘ historic site ⓘ peace pagoda ⓘ rock edicts ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | Buddhist stupa ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Emperor Ashoka
ⓘ
linked to:
Ashoka
|
| country |
India
ⓘ
India ⓘ |
| creator |
Emperor Ashoka
ⓘ
linked to:
Ashoka
|
| date | 3rd century BCE ⓘ |
| dynasty |
Maurya dynasty
ⓘ
linked to:
Maurya Empire
|
| elevation | hill ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Ashokan rock edicts
ⓘ
linked to:
Ashokan inscriptions
Shanti Stupa ⓘ
linked to:
Dhauli Shanti Stupa
|
| heritageStatus | important archaeological site in Odisha ⓘ |
| historicalEvent | Kalinga War ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Ashokan rock edicts
ⓘ
linked to:
Ashokan inscriptions
Buddhist heritage ⓘ Shanti Stupa ⓘ
linked to:
Dhauli Shanti Stupa
association with the Kalinga War ⓘ |
| language | Prakrit ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Dhauli
ⓘ
Dhauli ⓘ Kalinga ⓘ Odisha ⓘ
linked to:
Orissa
|
| locatedNear | Bhubaneswar ⓘ |
| locatedOn | banks of the Daya River ⓘ |
| material | rock ⓘ |
| nearbyCity | Bhubaneswar ⓘ |
| partOf | Mauryan expansion ⓘ |
| purpose | symbol of peace ⓘ |
| region | eastern India ⓘ |
| reign | 3rd century BCE ⓘ |
| religion | Buddhism ⓘ |
| religiousTradition | Buddhism ⓘ |
| significance | site where Ashoka is believed to have embraced Buddhism ⓘ |
| state |
Odisha
ⓘ
linked to:
Orissa
|
| theme |
Dhamma (Dharma)
ⓘ
moral governance ⓘ non-violence ⓘ |
| tookPlaceAt | Dhauli ⓘ |
| tourismType |
heritage tourism
ⓘ
religious tourism ⓘ |
| writingSystem | Brahmi script ⓘ |
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: Dhauli Description of subject: Dhauli is a historic site in Odisha, India, renowned as the place where the ancient Kalinga War occurred and where Emperor Ashoka is believed to have embraced Buddhism, marked by rock edicts and a prominent peace pagoda.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.