Ganden Monastery
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Ganden Monastery is one of the great Gelugpa Buddhist monastic universities of Tibet and a major religious center near Lhasa.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ganden Monastery canonical | 11 |
| Gelug monasteries | 2 |
| Ganden Monastery (traditional) | 1 |
| Ganden Phodrang | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7983992 — 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: Ganden Monastery Context triple: [Lhasa, contains, Ganden Monastery]
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A.
Dhankar Monastery
Dhankar Monastery is an ancient cliffside Buddhist gompa in Himachal Pradesh’s Spiti Valley, renowned for its dramatic location overlooking the confluence of the Spiti and Pin rivers.
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B.
Dechen Phodrang Monastery
Dechen Phodrang Monastery is a historic Buddhist monastic and educational institution in Bhutan, renowned for its ancient murals and role in training young monks.
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C.
Rumtek Monastery
Rumtek Monastery is a major Tibetan Buddhist monastery in Sikkim, India, serving as one of the principal seats of the Karmapa and a key center of the Karma Kagyu lineage.
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D.
Phugtal Monastery
Phugtal Monastery is a remote Buddhist monastery in the Zanskar region of Ladakh, India, dramatically built into the mouth of a cliffside cave and known for its ancient cave complex and isolation.
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E.
Sera Monastery
Sera Monastery is one of the great Gelug university monasteries of Tibetan Buddhism, renowned for its monastic debates and historic role as a major religious and educational center near Lhasa.
- 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: Ganden Monastery Target entity description: Ganden Monastery is one of the great Gelugpa Buddhist monastic universities of Tibet and a major religious center near Lhasa.
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A.
Dhankar Monastery
Dhankar Monastery is an ancient cliffside Buddhist gompa in Himachal Pradesh’s Spiti Valley, renowned for its dramatic location overlooking the confluence of the Spiti and Pin rivers.
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B.
Dechen Phodrang Monastery
Dechen Phodrang Monastery is a historic Buddhist monastic and educational institution in Bhutan, renowned for its ancient murals and role in training young monks.
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C.
Rumtek Monastery
Rumtek Monastery is a major Tibetan Buddhist monastery in Sikkim, India, serving as one of the principal seats of the Karmapa and a key center of the Karma Kagyu lineage.
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D.
Phugtal Monastery
Phugtal Monastery is a remote Buddhist monastery in the Zanskar region of Ladakh, India, dramatically built into the mouth of a cliffside cave and known for its ancient cave complex and isolation.
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E.
Sera Monastery
Sera Monastery is one of the great Gelug university monasteries of Tibetan Buddhism, renowned for its monastic debates and historic role as a major religious and educational center near Lhasa.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Buddhist monastery
ⓘ
Gelug monastery ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | Tibetan Buddhist architecture ⓘ |
| associatedMonastery |
Drepung Monastery
ⓘ
Sera Monastery ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Maitreya Buddha
ⓘ
linked to:
Maitreya
|
| contains |
assembly hall (tsogchen)
ⓘ
tombs of important Gelug lamas ⓘ |
| country | China ⓘ |
| dedicatedTo | Je Tsongkhapa ⓘ |
| distanceFrom | about 40 kilometers east of Lhasa ⓘ |
| elevation | about 4300 meters ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Je Tsongkhapa ⓘ |
| foundingYear | 1409 ⓘ |
| function | monastic university ⓘ |
| governingSchool |
Gelug
ⓘ
linked to:
Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism
|
| hasMonasticColleges |
Jangtse College
ⓘ
Shartse College ⓘ |
| hasNameInTibetan | dga’ ldan ⓘ |
| hasStatus | one of the earliest Gelug monasteries ⓘ |
| hasType | monastic university ⓘ |
| heritage | Tibetan cultural heritage ⓘ |
| historicalEvent | suffered heavy damage during the Cultural Revolution ⓘ |
| isOneOf | Three Great Monasteries of the Gelug school ⓘ |
| knownFor |
scholastic study of Buddhist philosophy
ⓘ
training Gelug monks ⓘ |
| laterStatus | partially rebuilt and restored ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Tibet ⓘ |
| locatedInValley |
Kyi-chu Valley
ⓘ
linked to:
Chongye Valley
|
| locatedNear | Lhasa ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Wangbur Mountain ⓘ |
| meaningOfName |
Tushita (Joyful) pure land of Maitreya
ⓘ
linked to:
Tuṣita
|
| pilgrimagePractice | kora around the monastery ⓘ |
| region |
Lhasa Prefecture
ⓘ
linked to:
Lhasa Prefecture-level City
|
| religiousAffiliation |
Buddhism
ⓘ
Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism ⓘ |
| religiousTradition |
Mahayana Buddhism
ⓘ
linked to:
Mahayana
Vajrayana Buddhism ⓘ
linked to:
Vajrayana
|
| role | major religious center near Lhasa ⓘ |
| significance | principal seat of the Gelug school ⓘ |
| subjectOf | Tibetan Buddhist pilgrimage ⓘ |
| traditionalTitleOfHead | Ganden Tripa ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Ganden Monastery Description of subject: Ganden Monastery is one of the great Gelugpa Buddhist monastic universities of Tibet and a major religious center near Lhasa.
Referenced by (15)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
central Tibet
linked to: Ganden Monastery
linked to: Ganden Monastery
linked to: Ganden Monastery
linked to: Ganden Monastery