Puspadanta
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Puspadanta was a prominent Jain monk and poet known for composing important Apabhramsha-language works such as the Mahapurana.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Puspadanta canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8445024 — 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: Puspadanta Context triple: [Apabhramsha, hasNotableAuthor, Puspadanta]
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A.
Kashyapa
Kashyapa is a revered Vedic sage and progenitor in Hindu mythology, regarded as one of the ancient rishis and a patriarch of many gods, demons, and beings.
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B.
Mahākāśyapa
Mahākāśyapa was one of the Buddha’s foremost disciples, revered in early Buddhism and Zen as the primary heir to the Buddha’s teaching and the first patriarch of the Zen lineage.
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C.
Babruvahana
Babruvahana is a character in the Indian epic Mahabharata, known as the son of the Pandava prince Arjuna and the princess Chitrangada, and as a skilled warrior and later ruler of Manipura.
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D.
Yuyudhana
Yuyudhana, better known as Satyaki, is a prominent Yadava warrior and ally of the Pandavas in the Indian epic Mahabharata.
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E.
Ashwapati
Ashwapati is a king in the Hindu epic Ramayana, best known as the ruler of the kingdom of Kekaya and the father of Queen Kaikeyi.
- 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: Puspadanta Target entity description: Puspadanta was a prominent Jain monk and poet known for composing important Apabhramsha-language works such as the Mahapurana.
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A.
Kashyapa
Kashyapa is a revered Vedic sage and progenitor in Hindu mythology, regarded as one of the ancient rishis and a patriarch of many gods, demons, and beings.
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B.
Mahākāśyapa
Mahākāśyapa was one of the Buddha’s foremost disciples, revered in early Buddhism and Zen as the primary heir to the Buddha’s teaching and the first patriarch of the Zen lineage.
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C.
Babruvahana
Babruvahana is a character in the Indian epic Mahabharata, known as the son of the Pandava prince Arjuna and the princess Chitrangada, and as a skilled warrior and later ruler of Manipura.
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D.
Yuyudhana
Yuyudhana, better known as Satyaki, is a prominent Yadava warrior and ally of the Pandavas in the Indian epic Mahabharata.
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E.
Ashwapati
Ashwapati is a king in the Hindu epic Ramayana, best known as the ruler of the kingdom of Kekaya and the father of Queen Kaikeyi.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Apabhramsha-language writer
ⓘ
Jain monk ⓘ poet ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Digambara Jain monks
ⓘ
linked to:
Digambara Jains
Jinasena ⓘ |
| field |
Jain narrative literature
ⓘ
Jain philosophy ⓘ |
| genre |
didactic poetry
ⓘ
religious literature ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Apabhramsha literature
ⓘ
Mahapurana ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | Apabhramsha ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | medieval Indian literature ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Jinasena-Puspadanta Mahapurana
ⓘ
linked to:
Mahapurana
Mahapurana ⓘ Trishashtilakshanamahapurana ⓘ
linked to:
Trisastisalakapurusacaritra
|
| occupation |
monk
ⓘ
poet ⓘ |
| region |
Indian subcontinent
ⓘ
linked to:
South Asia
|
| religion | Jainism ⓘ |
| religiousOrder | Jain monastic community ⓘ |
| tradition |
Digambara Jain tradition
ⓘ
linked to:
Digambara Jains
|
| workSubject |
Jain cosmology
ⓘ
Jain ethics ⓘ lives of the Tirthankaras ⓘ |
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: Puspadanta Description of subject: Puspadanta was a prominent Jain monk and poet known for composing important Apabhramsha-language works such as the Mahapurana.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.