Sadhak Bamakhepa
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Sadhak Bamakhepa was a renowned 19th-century Tantric saint and devotee of the goddess Tara, celebrated for his intense spiritual practices and mystical experiences at the sacred site of Tarapith in West Bengal, India.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sadhak | 1 |
| Sadhak Bamakhepa canonical | 1 |
| tantric saint Bamakhepa | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7028990 — 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: Sadhak Bamakhepa Context triple: [Tarapith, associatedWith, Sadhak Bamakhepa]
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A.
Mahendradatta
Mahendradatta was a Javanese queen and princess of the Isyana dynasty, known as the consort of King Udayana of Bali and the mother of King Airlangga of Java.
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B.
Sampurnanand
Sampurnanand was an Indian politician, educationist, and former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh known for his contributions to education and Sanskrit scholarship.
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C.
Tav-Prasad Savaiye
Tav-Prasad Savaiye is a revered Sikh hymn composed by Guru Gobind Singh, recited as part of the Nitnem and during important religious ceremonies for spiritual reflection and divine praise.
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D.
Somānanda
Somānanda was an early Kashmiri Śaiva philosopher and theologian whose non-dual Trika teachings helped lay the foundations for later thinkers like Abhinavagupta.
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E.
Bhanubhakta Acharya
Bhanubhakta Acharya was a pioneering 19th-century Nepali poet and translator, celebrated as the "Adikavi" (first poet) of Nepali literature for his influential works including the translation of the Ramayana into Nepali.
- 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: Sadhak Bamakhepa Target entity description: Sadhak Bamakhepa was a renowned 19th-century Tantric saint and devotee of the goddess Tara, celebrated for his intense spiritual practices and mystical experiences at the sacred site of Tarapith in West Bengal, India.
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A.
Mahendradatta
Mahendradatta was a Javanese queen and princess of the Isyana dynasty, known as the consort of King Udayana of Bali and the mother of King Airlangga of Java.
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B.
Sampurnanand
Sampurnanand was an Indian politician, educationist, and former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh known for his contributions to education and Sanskrit scholarship.
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C.
Tav-Prasad Savaiye
Tav-Prasad Savaiye is a revered Sikh hymn composed by Guru Gobind Singh, recited as part of the Nitnem and during important religious ceremonies for spiritual reflection and divine praise.
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D.
Somānanda
Somānanda was an early Kashmiri Śaiva philosopher and theologian whose non-dual Trika teachings helped lay the foundations for later thinkers like Abhinavagupta.
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E.
Bhanubhakta Acharya
Bhanubhakta Acharya was a pioneering 19th-century Nepali poet and translator, celebrated as the "Adikavi" (first poet) of Nepali literature for his influential works including the translation of the Ramayana into Nepali.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Hindu saint
ⓘ
Indian mystic ⓘ Tantric practitioner ⓘ devotee of Tara ⓘ |
| associatedTempleDeity |
Tara of Tarapith
ⓘ
linked to:
Tara
|
| associatedWith |
Shakti worship
ⓘ
Tantric rituals ⓘ Tarapith temple ⓘ
linked to:
Tarapith Tara Temple
|
| centuryOfActivity | 19th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | India ⓘ |
| culturalRegion | Bengal ⓘ |
| devotionalFocus | Tara as a form of the Divine Mother ⓘ |
| devotionalPractice |
Tantric sadhana at cremation grounds
ⓘ
meditation on Tara ⓘ |
| honorificPrefix |
Sadhak
ⓘ
linked to:
Sadhak Bamakhepa
|
| influenceOn |
Bengali folk spirituality
ⓘ
Tantric devotional practices at Tarapith ⓘ |
| knownFor |
devotion to goddess Tara
ⓘ
intense spiritual practices ⓘ mystical experiences ⓘ |
| legacy | inspires devotees at Tarapith ⓘ |
| notableSiteOfPilgrimage | Samadhi at Tarapith ⓘ |
| placeOfVeneration | Tarapith, West Bengal, India ⓘ |
| primaryPlaceOfPractice | Tarapith ⓘ |
| regionOfInfluence |
Eastern India
ⓘ
linked to:
eastern India
|
| religion | Hinduism ⓘ |
| spiritualReputation |
renowned for austerities
ⓘ
revered as a siddha ⓘ |
| spiritualTitle | Bamakhepa ⓘ |
| spiritualTradition | Tantra ⓘ |
| stateOfActivity | West Bengal ⓘ |
| theologicalOrientation | Shakta Tantra ⓘ |
| typeOfSaint | Tantric saint ⓘ |
| veneratedDeity | Goddess Tara ⓘ |
| worshipContext | Shakta tradition ⓘ |
| worshippedAs | saint by local devotees ⓘ |
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: Sadhak Bamakhepa Description of subject: Sadhak Bamakhepa was a renowned 19th-century Tantric saint and devotee of the goddess Tara, celebrated for his intense spiritual practices and mystical experiences at the sacred site of Tarapith in West Bengal, India.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Sadhak Bamakhepa
linked to: Sadhak Bamakhepa