Kailasam
E754831
Kailasam is the given name of renowned Indian filmmaker and playwright K. Balachander, a major figure in Tamil cinema and theatre.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kailasam canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8738863 — 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: Kailasam Context triple: [K. Balachander, givenName, Kailasam]
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A.
Gosainthan
Gosainthan is another name for Shishapangma, one of the world’s fourteen 8,000-meter Himalayan peaks located in Tibet.
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B.
Kothandaramar
Kothandaramar is a revered form of the Hindu god Rama, typically depicted holding a bow and associated with devotion, righteousness, and temple worship in South India.
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C.
Kameswara
Kameswara was a king of the Kediri (Kadiri) kingdom in East Java, Indonesia, known from Javanese historical traditions as one of the early rulers in the succession that included the famed King Jayabaya.
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D.
Rajagopala
Rajagopala is a Hindu deity regarded as a form of Lord Krishna, particularly venerated as the divine cowherd and king of Gokul.
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E.
Karpagambal
Karpagambal is the Hindu goddess Parvati worshipped as the consort of Lord Shiva at the Kapaleeshwarar Temple in Mylapore, Chennai.
- 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: Kailasam Target entity description: Kailasam is the given name of renowned Indian filmmaker and playwright K. Balachander, a major figure in Tamil cinema and theatre.
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A.
Gosainthan
Gosainthan is another name for Shishapangma, one of the world’s fourteen 8,000-meter Himalayan peaks located in Tibet.
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B.
Kothandaramar
Kothandaramar is a revered form of the Hindu god Rama, typically depicted holding a bow and associated with devotion, righteousness, and temple worship in South India.
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C.
Kameswara
Kameswara was a king of the Kediri (Kadiri) kingdom in East Java, Indonesia, known from Javanese historical traditions as one of the early rulers in the succession that included the famed King Jayabaya.
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D.
Rajagopala
Rajagopala is a Hindu deity regarded as a form of Lord Krishna, particularly venerated as the divine cowherd and king of Gokul.
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E.
Karpagambal
Karpagambal is the Hindu goddess Parvati worshipped as the consort of Lord Shiva at the Kapaleeshwarar Temple in Mylapore, Chennai.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (16)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
given name
ⓘ
personal name ⓘ |
| associatedWithProfessionOfBearer |
film director
ⓘ
playwright ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ theatre director ⓘ |
| givenNameOf |
K. Balachander
ⓘ
Kailasam Balachander ⓘ
linked to:
K. Balachander
|
| languageOfOrigin | Tamil ⓘ |
| nameCategory | masculine given name ⓘ |
| notableBearer | K. Balachander ⓘ |
| notableInFieldThroughBearer |
Indian theatre
ⓘ
Tamil cinema ⓘ |
| script | Tamil script ⓘ |
| usedInCountry | India ⓘ |
| usedInCulture | Tamil culture ⓘ |
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: Kailasam Description of subject: Kailasam is the given name of renowned Indian filmmaker and playwright K. Balachander, a major figure in Tamil cinema and theatre.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.