Siladitya III
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Siladitya III was a ruler of the Maitraka dynasty of Vallabhi in western India, known from inscriptions that mark the later phase of the dynasty’s power.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Siladitya III canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7770930 — 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: Siladitya III Context triple: [Maitraka dynasty, notableRuler, Siladitya III]
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A.
Anandapala
Anandapala was a ruler of the Hindu Shahi dynasty in northwestern India who is best known for resisting Mahmud of Ghazni’s invasions in the early 11th century.
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B.
Kujula Kadphises
Kujula Kadphises was the founding ruler of the Kushan Empire, known for unifying various Yuezhi tribes and establishing a powerful kingdom in Bactria and northwestern India in the 1st century CE.
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C.
Vima Kadphises
Vima Kadphises was a Kushan emperor known for expanding the empire’s territory and promoting trade and coinage that facilitated cultural and economic links between Central Asia and the Indian subcontinent.
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D.
Rajasuya
Rajasuya is an ancient Vedic royal consecration ritual performed to legitimize and exalt a king’s sovereignty and supreme status.
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E.
Khshayarsha
Khshayarsha is the Old Persian name for Xerxes I, the powerful Achaemenid king who ruled the Persian Empire in the early 5th century BCE and led the invasion of Greece.
- 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: Siladitya III Target entity description: Siladitya III was a ruler of the Maitraka dynasty of Vallabhi in western India, known from inscriptions that mark the later phase of the dynasty’s power.
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A.
Anandapala
Anandapala was a ruler of the Hindu Shahi dynasty in northwestern India who is best known for resisting Mahmud of Ghazni’s invasions in the early 11th century.
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B.
Kujula Kadphises
Kujula Kadphises was the founding ruler of the Kushan Empire, known for unifying various Yuezhi tribes and establishing a powerful kingdom in Bactria and northwestern India in the 1st century CE.
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C.
Vima Kadphises
Vima Kadphises was a Kushan emperor known for expanding the empire’s territory and promoting trade and coinage that facilitated cultural and economic links between Central Asia and the Indian subcontinent.
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D.
Rajasuya
Rajasuya is an ancient Vedic royal consecration ritual performed to legitimize and exalt a king’s sovereignty and supreme status.
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E.
Khshayarsha
Khshayarsha is the Old Persian name for Xerxes I, the powerful Achaemenid king who ruled the Persian Empire in the early 5th century BCE and led the invasion of Greece.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Indian monarch
ⓘ
Maitraka ruler ⓘ historical figure ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Vallabhi inscriptions ⓘ |
| capital | Vallabhi ⓘ |
| country | India ⓘ |
| dynasty | Maitraka dynasty ⓘ |
| era | early medieval India ⓘ |
| governmentType | monarchy ⓘ |
| historicalStatus | poorly documented ruler ⓘ |
| house | Maitraka house ⓘ |
| knownFrom | inscriptions ⓘ |
| languageOfInscriptions | Sanskrit ⓘ |
| memberOf | Maitraka dynasty ⓘ |
| notableFor | ruling during decline of Maitraka dynasty ⓘ |
| politicalPhase | later phase of Maitraka power ⓘ |
| predecessorDynasty |
Gupta Empire (regional successor context)
ⓘ
linked to:
Gupta Empire
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| region | Gujarat ⓘ |
| religion | Hinduism ⓘ |
| ruled | Vallabhi ⓘ |
| ruledRegion |
western India
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linked to:
Western India
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| scriptOfInscriptions | Brahmi-derived script ⓘ |
| sourceType | epigraphic evidence ⓘ |
| successorOf | earlier Maitraka rulers of Vallabhi ⓘ |
| title |
Siladitya
ⓘ
linked to:
Siladitya V
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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: Siladitya III Description of subject: Siladitya III was a ruler of the Maitraka dynasty of Vallabhi in western India, known from inscriptions that mark the later phase of the dynasty’s power.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.