C. P. de Silva (acting)
E725231
C. P. de Silva was a prominent Sri Lankan politician who briefly served as acting Prime Minister of Ceylon during the mid-20th century.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| C. P. de Silva (acting) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8327107 — 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: C. P. de Silva (acting) Context triple: [Prime Minister of Ceylon, officeHoldersInclude, C. P. de Silva (acting)]
-
A.
Sir John Kotelawala
Sir John Kotelawala was a Sri Lankan statesman and military officer who served as the country’s third Prime Minister in the 1950s.
-
B.
Kumar Dharmasena
Kumar Dharmasena is a former Sri Lankan international cricketer who became a prominent elite panel umpire, officiating in major events such as the Cricket World Cup.
-
C.
Robert Senanayake
Robert Senanayake was a prominent Sri Lankan businessman and sports administrator, known especially for his leadership of the Ceylon Cricket Association and his role in the country’s early post-independence corporate sphere.
-
D.
R. G. Senanayake
R. G. Senanayake was a prominent Sri Lankan politician and cabinet minister known for his role in shaping the country’s post-independence economic and trade policies.
-
E.
Constitutional Affairs Minister Colvin R. de Silva
Constitutional Affairs Minister Colvin R. de Silva was a prominent Sri Lankan Marxist politician, lawyer, and key architect of the country’s republican constitutional framework in the early 1970s.
- 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: C. P. de Silva (acting) Target entity description: C. P. de Silva was a prominent Sri Lankan politician who briefly served as acting Prime Minister of Ceylon during the mid-20th century.
-
A.
Sir John Kotelawala
Sir John Kotelawala was a Sri Lankan statesman and military officer who served as the country’s third Prime Minister in the 1950s.
-
B.
Kumar Dharmasena
Kumar Dharmasena is a former Sri Lankan international cricketer who became a prominent elite panel umpire, officiating in major events such as the Cricket World Cup.
-
C.
Robert Senanayake
Robert Senanayake was a prominent Sri Lankan businessman and sports administrator, known especially for his leadership of the Ceylon Cricket Association and his role in the country’s early post-independence corporate sphere.
-
D.
R. G. Senanayake
R. G. Senanayake was a prominent Sri Lankan politician and cabinet minister known for his role in shaping the country’s post-independence economic and trade policies.
-
E.
Constitutional Affairs Minister Colvin R. de Silva
Constitutional Affairs Minister Colvin R. de Silva was a prominent Sri Lankan Marxist politician, lawyer, and key architect of the country’s republican constitutional framework in the early 1970s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (21)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Sri Lankan politician
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| continentOfActivity | Asia ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Ceylon
ⓘ
linked to:
Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | politics ⓘ |
| genre | parliamentary politics ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
English
ⓘ
Sinhala ⓘ |
| notableFor |
briefly serving as acting Prime Minister of Ceylon
ⓘ
prominent role in mid-20th century Sri Lankan politics ⓘ |
| officeContested | Prime Minister of Ceylon ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity |
Ceylon
ⓘ
linked to:
Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka ⓘ |
| politicalSystemContext | parliamentary democracy of Ceylon ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Cabinet minister of Ceylon
ⓘ
Member of Parliament of Ceylon ⓘ acting Prime Minister of Ceylon ⓘ |
| residence |
Ceylon
ⓘ
linked to:
Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka ⓘ |
| timePeriod | mid-20th century ⓘ |
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: C. P. de Silva (acting) Description of subject: C. P. de Silva was a prominent Sri Lankan politician who briefly served as acting Prime Minister of Ceylon during the mid-20th century.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.