Alice Elisabeth Kotelawala
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Alice Elisabeth Kotelawala was a member of the prominent Kotelawala family of Sri Lanka, related to former Prime Minister Sir John Kotelawala.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Alice Elisabeth Kotelawala canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8844780 — 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: Alice Elisabeth Kotelawala Context triple: [Sir John Kotelawala, hasRelative, Alice Elisabeth Kotelawala]
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A.
Anura Bandaranaike
Anura Bandaranaike was a prominent Sri Lankan politician and member of the influential Bandaranaike family, who held several key ministerial and parliamentary positions during his career.
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B.
Molly Dunuwila Senanayake
Molly Dunuwila Senanayake was a Sri Lankan woman best known as the mother of Dudley Senanayake, who served multiple terms as Prime Minister of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka).
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C.
Sunethra Bandaranaike
Sunethra Bandaranaike is a Sri Lankan philanthropist and social activist from the prominent Bandaranaike political family.
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D.
Sirimavo Bandaranaike
Sirimavo Bandaranaike was a Sri Lankan stateswoman who became the world’s first female prime minister and a long-serving leader of her country.
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E.
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.
- 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: Alice Elisabeth Kotelawala Target entity description: Alice Elisabeth Kotelawala was a member of the prominent Kotelawala family of Sri Lanka, related to former Prime Minister Sir John Kotelawala.
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A.
Anura Bandaranaike
Anura Bandaranaike was a prominent Sri Lankan politician and member of the influential Bandaranaike family, who held several key ministerial and parliamentary positions during his career.
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B.
Molly Dunuwila Senanayake
Molly Dunuwila Senanayake was a Sri Lankan woman best known as the mother of Dudley Senanayake, who served multiple terms as Prime Minister of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka).
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C.
Sunethra Bandaranaike
Sunethra Bandaranaike is a Sri Lankan philanthropist and social activist from the prominent Bandaranaike political family.
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D.
Sirimavo Bandaranaike
Sirimavo Bandaranaike was a Sri Lankan stateswoman who became the world’s first female prime minister and a long-serving leader of her country.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (9)
| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
family
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person ⓘ |
| country | Sri Lanka ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Sri Lanka
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Sri Lanka ⓘ |
| familyName | Kotelawala ⓘ |
| memberOf | Kotelawala family ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Prime Minister of Ceylon ⓘ |
| relative | Sir John Kotelawala ⓘ |
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: Alice Elisabeth Kotelawala Description of subject: Alice Elisabeth Kotelawala was a member of the prominent Kotelawala family of Sri Lanka, related to former Prime Minister Sir John Kotelawala.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.