Vrishni clan
E693852
The Vrishni clan was an ancient Yadava lineage of northwestern India, traditionally associated with Krishna and his kinsmen in Hindu mythology.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Vrishni clan canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7791657 — 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: Vrishni clan Context triple: [Balarama, associatedWith, Vrishni clan]
-
A.
Naya clan
The Naya clan is an ancient Jain lineage traditionally associated with the family background of Mahavira, the 24th Tirthankara of Jainism.
-
B.
Hotak family
The Hotak family was an Afghan Pashtun lineage that founded and led the early 18th-century Hotak dynasty, which briefly ruled parts of Persia and Afghanistan.
-
C.
Heron clan
The Heron clan is one of the traditional matrilineal clans of the Cayuga people, serving as a key social and kinship group within their Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) cultural system.
-
D.
Javanshir clan
The Javanshir clan was a prominent Azerbaijani noble family that played a significant political and military role in the Karabakh region.
-
E.
Wangal clan
The Wangal clan is an Aboriginal Australian group traditionally associated with the lands along the southern side of the Parramatta River in what is now Sydney, New South Wales.
- 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: Vrishni clan Target entity description: The Vrishni clan was an ancient Yadava lineage of northwestern India, traditionally associated with Krishna and his kinsmen in Hindu mythology.
-
A.
Naya clan
The Naya clan is an ancient Jain lineage traditionally associated with the family background of Mahavira, the 24th Tirthankara of Jainism.
-
B.
Hotak family
The Hotak family was an Afghan Pashtun lineage that founded and led the early 18th-century Hotak dynasty, which briefly ruled parts of Persia and Afghanistan.
-
C.
Heron clan
The Heron clan is one of the traditional matrilineal clans of the Cayuga people, serving as a key social and kinship group within their Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) cultural system.
-
D.
Javanshir clan
The Javanshir clan was a prominent Azerbaijani noble family that played a significant political and military role in the Karabakh region.
-
E.
Wangal clan
The Wangal clan is an Aboriginal Australian group traditionally associated with the lands along the southern side of the Parramatta River in what is now Sydney, New South Wales.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Hindu mythological group
ⓘ
Yadava lineage ⓘ ancient clan ⓘ |
| alliedWith | Pandavas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Aniruddha
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Balarama NERFINISHED ⓘ Devaki NERFINISHED ⓘ Krishna NERFINISHED ⓘ Pradyumna NERFINISHED ⓘ Rukmini NERFINISHED ⓘ Satyaki NERFINISHED ⓘ Ugrasena NERFINISHED ⓘ Vasudeva NERFINISHED ⓘ Yadavas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| category |
Clans in Hindu mythology
ⓘ
Krishna-related groups ⓘ Yadava clans ⓘ |
| culturalContext | ancient Indian ⓘ |
| dynasticAncestor | Yadu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| eponymousAncestor | Vrishni NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicOrigin | Yadava NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLegendaryCapital |
Dvaraka
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mathura NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNotableMember |
Akrura
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Aniruddha NERFINISHED ⓘ Balarama NERFINISHED ⓘ Devaki NERFINISHED ⓘ Krishna NERFINISHED ⓘ Pradyumna NERFINISHED ⓘ Rukmini NERFINISHED ⓘ Satyaki NERFINISHED ⓘ Uddhava NERFINISHED ⓘ Ugrasena NERFINISHED ⓘ Vasudeva NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | Sanskrit (literary sources) ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Dvaraka region
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mathura region NERFINISHED ⓘ northwestern India ⓘ |
| mentionedIn |
Bhagavata Purana
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Harivamsa NERFINISHED ⓘ Mahabharata NERFINISHED ⓘ Puranas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| opposedTo | Kauravas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf |
Yadava confederacy
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Yadu dynasty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Hinduism ⓘ |
| timePeriod | Iron Age India (traditional dating) ⓘ |
| worshippedDeity |
Krishna
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Vishnu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Vrishni clan Description of subject: The Vrishni clan was an ancient Yadava lineage of northwestern India, traditionally associated with Krishna and his kinsmen in Hindu mythology.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.