Ramana
E754856
Ramana is a popular 2002 Tamil vigilante action film starring Vijayakanth as a crusading professor who fights systemic corruption.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ramana canonical | 5 |
| Ramana (character) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8738961 — 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: Ramana Context triple: [Vijayakanth, notableWork, Ramana]
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A.
Swami
Swami is a Hindu honorific title denoting a religious teacher or monk who has taken vows of renunciation and spiritual discipline.
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B.
Shankara
Shankara was an 8th-century Indian philosopher and theologian best known for consolidating the Advaita Vedanta school of Hindu thought, which teaches the non-dual unity of Atman and Brahman.
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C.
Shankara
Shankara is a revered epithet of the Hindu god Shiva, highlighting his role as a benevolent and auspicious divine benefactor.
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D.
Swami Vijnanananda
Swami Vijnanananda was a direct disciple of Sri Ramakrishna and a monk of the Ramakrishna Order known for his engineering skills and spiritual leadership.
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E.
Badarayana
Badarayana is an ancient Indian sage and philosopher traditionally credited with authoring the Brahma Sutras, a foundational text of the Vedanta school of Hindu philosophy.
- 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: Ramana Target entity description: Ramana is a popular 2002 Tamil vigilante action film starring Vijayakanth as a crusading professor who fights systemic corruption.
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A.
Swami
Swami is a Hindu honorific title denoting a religious teacher or monk who has taken vows of renunciation and spiritual discipline.
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B.
Shankara
Shankara was an 8th-century Indian philosopher and theologian best known for consolidating the Advaita Vedanta school of Hindu thought, which teaches the non-dual unity of Atman and Brahman.
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C.
Shankara
Shankara is a revered epithet of the Hindu god Shiva, highlighting his role as a benevolent and auspicious divine benefactor.
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D.
Swami Vijnanananda
Swami Vijnanananda was a direct disciple of Sri Ramakrishna and a monk of the Ramakrishna Order known for his engineering skills and spiritual leadership.
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E.
Badarayana
Badarayana is an ancient Indian sage and philosopher traditionally credited with authoring the Brahma Sutras, a foundational text of the Vedanta school of Hindu philosophy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Tamil-language film
ⓘ
film ⓘ vigilante film ⓘ |
| basedIn | India ⓘ |
| characterName | Professor Ramana ⓘ |
| characterPlayedBy | Vijayakanth ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | India ⓘ |
| focusesOn | systemic corruption in society ⓘ |
| genre |
action
ⓘ
vigilante ⓘ |
| hasCultStatus | yes ⓘ |
| hasFormat | feature film ⓘ |
| hasProtagonistOccupation | college professor ⓘ |
| industry | Tamil cinema ⓘ |
| leadActor | Vijayakanth ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Ramana (character)
ⓘ
linked to:
Ramana
|
| originalLanguage | Tamil ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A crusading professor wages a covert war against systemic corruption. ⓘ |
| portraysTheme |
anti-corruption
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social justice ⓘ vigilantism ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 2002 ⓘ |
| stars | Vijayakanth ⓘ |
| title | Ramana ⓘ |
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: Ramana Description of subject: Ramana is a popular 2002 Tamil vigilante action film starring Vijayakanth as a crusading professor who fights systemic corruption.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Ramana