Temple of the Tooth
E82426
The Temple of the Tooth is a sacred Buddhist temple in Kandy, Sri Lanka, renowned for housing a revered relic believed to be a tooth of the Buddha and serving as a major pilgrimage and cultural site.
All labels observed (7)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T682431 — 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: Temple of the Tooth Context triple: [Kingdom of Kandy, hasSite, Temple of the Tooth]
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Temple of Amada
The Temple of Amada is an ancient Egyptian temple in Nubia, renowned as one of the region’s oldest surviving temples and noted for its finely preserved reliefs and inscriptions.
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Temple of Taffa
The Temple of Taffa is an ancient Egyptian temple from Nubia that was relocated and preserved as part of UNESCO’s international effort to save monuments threatened by the construction of the Aswan High Dam.
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Borobudur Temple
Borobudur Temple is a 9th-century Mahayana Buddhist monument in Central Java renowned for its massive stepped pyramid structure and intricate stone reliefs, and is one of the most important archaeological and pilgrimage sites in Southeast Asia.
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Temple of Dakka
The Temple of Dakka is an ancient Egyptian temple in Nubia dedicated primarily to the god Thoth, notable for its relocation during the 20th-century UNESCO-led rescue of Nubian monuments threatened by the Aswan High Dam.
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Sphinx Temple
Sphinx Temple is an ancient limestone temple complex located directly in front of the Great Sphinx of Giza, believed to have served a ritual or cultic function associated with the monument.
- 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: Temple of the Tooth Target entity description: The Temple of the Tooth is a sacred Buddhist temple in Kandy, Sri Lanka, renowned for housing a revered relic believed to be a tooth of the Buddha and serving as a major pilgrimage and cultural site.
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A.
Temple of Amada
The Temple of Amada is an ancient Egyptian temple in Nubia, renowned as one of the region’s oldest surviving temples and noted for its finely preserved reliefs and inscriptions.
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B.
Temple of Taffa
The Temple of Taffa is an ancient Egyptian temple from Nubia that was relocated and preserved as part of UNESCO’s international effort to save monuments threatened by the construction of the Aswan High Dam.
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C.
Borobudur Temple
Borobudur Temple is a 9th-century Mahayana Buddhist monument in Central Java renowned for its massive stepped pyramid structure and intricate stone reliefs, and is one of the most important archaeological and pilgrimage sites in Southeast Asia.
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D.
Temple of Dakka
The Temple of Dakka is an ancient Egyptian temple in Nubia dedicated primarily to the god Thoth, notable for its relocation during the 20th-century UNESCO-led rescue of Nubian monuments threatened by the Aswan High Dam.
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E.
Sphinx Temple
Sphinx Temple is an ancient limestone temple complex located directly in front of the Great Sphinx of Giza, believed to have served a ritual or cultic function associated with the monument.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Buddhist temple
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World Heritage Site component ⓘ pilgrimage site ⓘ religious building ⓘ |
| altName |
Sri Dalada Maligawa complex
ⓘ
surface form:
Sri Dalada Maligawa
Temple of the Tooth ⓘ
surface form:
Temple of the Sacred Tooth Relic
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| architecturalStyle | Kandyan architecture ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Esala Perahera
ⓘ
surface form:
Esala Perahera festival
Kandyan Kingdom ⓘ
surface form:
Kandyan monarchy
Kingdom of Kandy (interior Sri Lanka) ⓘ
surface form:
Kingdom of Kandy
|
| associatedWithDynasty | Kandyan kings ⓘ |
| cityRole | spiritual center of Kandy ⓘ |
| contains |
Temple of the Tooth
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Sacred Tooth Relic of the Buddha
|
| country | Sri Lanka ⓘ |
| culturalSignificance |
center of Kandyan cultural traditions
ⓘ
venue for annual Esala Perahera procession ⓘ |
| dedicatedTo |
Shakyamuni Buddha
ⓘ
surface form:
Gautama Buddha
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| function |
pilgrimage center
ⓘ
place of worship ⓘ relic shrine ⓘ |
| governingBody |
Buddhist clergy of the Malwatte and Asgiriya chapters
ⓘ
Sri Dalada Maligawa administration ⓘ |
| hasPart | Sri Dalada Maligawa complex ⓘ |
| hasStructure |
inner shrine housing the Tooth Relic
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moat and surrounding walls ⓘ octagonal pavilion (Pattirippuwa) ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | part of UNESCO World Heritage Site "Sacred City of Kandy" ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Kandy ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeEntity |
Central Province of Sri Lanka
ⓘ
surface form:
Central Province, Sri Lanka
|
| locatedOn | north side of Kandy Lake ⓘ |
| materialCulture | Kandyan-era murals and woodwork ⓘ |
| nearbyFeature | Kandy Lake ⓘ |
| pilgrimageReligion |
Theravada
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surface form:
Theravada Buddhism
|
| pilgrimageSeason |
Esala Perahera
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surface form:
Esala month (July–August)
|
| primaryRelic | tooth relic of the Buddha ⓘ |
| religion | Buddhism ⓘ |
| rituals |
daily puja ceremonies
ⓘ
offerings to the Tooth Relic ⓘ |
| securityStatus | heavily guarded religious site ⓘ |
| significance |
major pilgrimage destination
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one of the most sacred Buddhist sites in Sri Lanka ⓘ symbol of Sri Lankan Buddhist identity ⓘ |
| symbolism | legitimacy of royal authority in historical Sri Lanka ⓘ |
| tourismAttraction | major tourist attraction in Sri Lanka ⓘ |
| unescoWorldHeritageSiteSince | 1988 ⓘ |
| visitorType |
international pilgrims
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local pilgrims ⓘ tourists ⓘ |
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: Temple of the Tooth Description of subject: The Temple of the Tooth is a sacred Buddhist temple in Kandy, Sri Lanka, renowned for housing a revered relic believed to be a tooth of the Buddha and serving as a major pilgrimage and cultural site.
Referenced by (22)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Kingdom of Kandy
subject surface form:
Kingdom of Kandy
this entity surface form:
Sacred Tooth Relic of the Buddha
this entity surface form:
Temple of the Sacred Tooth Relic
subject surface form:
Udarata
this entity surface form:
Temple of the Tooth (Sri Dalada Maligawa)
this entity surface form:
Temple of the Tooth (Sri Dalada Maligawa)
this entity surface form:
Temple of the Tooth complex
this entity surface form:
Temple of the Tooth premises
this entity surface form:
Temple of the Tooth forecourt