Ranil Wickremesinghe

E833976

human politician

Ranil Wickremesinghe is a veteran Sri Lankan politician who has served multiple terms as Prime Minister and later as President of Sri Lanka.

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All labels observed (4)

Label	Occurrences
Ranil Wickremesinghe canonical	10
Wickremesinghe	2
Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe	1
Ranil Shriyan Wickremesinghe	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9982487 — 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: Ranil Wickremesinghe
Context triple: [United National Party, hasNotableLeader, Ranil Wickremesinghe]

A. Maithripala Sirisena
Maithripala Sirisena is a Sri Lankan politician who served as the country’s President from 2015 to 2019 and has been a prominent leader of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party.
B. Mahinda Rajapaksa
Mahinda Rajapaksa is a Sri Lankan politician and former president best known for leading the country during the final phase of the Sri Lankan Civil War and overseeing the military defeat of the Tamil Tigers.
C. D. A. Rajapaksa
D. A. Rajapaksa was a prominent Sri Lankan politician and patriarch of the Rajapaksa political family, instrumental in shaping mid-20th-century nationalist and rural-focused politics in the country.
D. Nimal Siripala de Silva
Nimal Siripala de Silva is a veteran Sri Lankan politician and lawyer who has held multiple senior ministerial portfolios and leadership roles within the Sri Lanka Freedom Party.
E. J. R. Jayewardene
J. R. Jayewardene was the second executive President of Sri Lanka, known for introducing a powerful presidential system and leading the country through significant economic liberalization and rising ethnic tensions in the late 20th century.
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: Ranil Wickremesinghe
Target entity description: Ranil Wickremesinghe is a veteran Sri Lankan politician who has served multiple terms as Prime Minister and later as President of Sri Lanka.

A. Maithripala Sirisena
Maithripala Sirisena is a Sri Lankan politician who served as the country’s President from 2015 to 2019 and has been a prominent leader of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party.
B. Mahinda Rajapaksa
Mahinda Rajapaksa is a Sri Lankan politician and former president best known for leading the country during the final phase of the Sri Lankan Civil War and overseeing the military defeat of the Tamil Tigers.
C. D. A. Rajapaksa
D. A. Rajapaksa was a prominent Sri Lankan politician and patriarch of the Rajapaksa political family, instrumental in shaping mid-20th-century nationalist and rural-focused politics in the country.
D. Nimal Siripala de Silva
Nimal Siripala de Silva is a veteran Sri Lankan politician and lawyer who has held multiple senior ministerial portfolios and leadership roles within the Sri Lanka Freedom Party.
E. J. R. Jayewardene
J. R. Jayewardene was the second executive President of Sri Lanka, known for introducing a powerful presidential system and leading the country through significant economic liberalization and rising ethnic tensions in the late 20th century.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (50)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	human ⓘ politician ⓘ
appointedBy	Chandrika Kumaratunga ⓘ linked to: Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga D. B. Wijetunga ⓘ Gotabaya Rajapaksa ⓘ Maithripala Sirisena ⓘ
countryOfCitizenship	Sri Lanka ⓘ
dateOfBirth	1949-03-24 ⓘ
educatedAt	Royal College, Colombo ⓘ Sri Lanka Law College ⓘ linked to: Ceylon Law College University of Ceylon ⓘ
familyName	Wickremesinghe ⓘ linked to: Ranil Wickremesinghe
firstElectedToParliament	1977 ⓘ
fullName	Ranil Shriyan Wickremesinghe ⓘ linked to: Ranil Wickremesinghe
givenName	Ranil ⓘ
hasNoChildren	true ⓘ
languageSpoken	English ⓘ Sinhala ⓘ
memberOfPoliticalParty	United National Party ⓘ
nationality	Sri Lankan ⓘ
notableFor	becoming President of Sri Lanka during the 2022 political and economic crisis ⓘ serving multiple non-consecutive terms as Prime Minister of Sri Lanka ⓘ
officeAssumed	President of Sri Lanka, 2022-07-21 ⓘ Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, 1993 ⓘ Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, 2001 ⓘ Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, 2015 ⓘ Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, 2018 ⓘ Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, 2022-05-12 ⓘ
parliamentaryConstituencyRepresented	Colombo District ⓘ
placeOfBirth	Ceylon ⓘ linked to: Sri Lanka Colombo ⓘ
positionHeld	Leader of the Opposition of Sri Lanka ⓘ Leader of the United National Party ⓘ Minister of Education of Sri Lanka ⓘ Minister of Youth Affairs and Employment of Sri Lanka ⓘ President of Sri Lanka ⓘ Prime Minister of Sri Lanka ⓘ
precededBy	D. M. Jayaratne as Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (2015) ⓘ Gotabaya Rajapaksa as President of Sri Lanka ⓘ Mahinda Rajapaksa as Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (2022) ⓘ Ratnasiri Wickremanayake as Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (2001) ⓘ Sirimavo Bandaranaike as Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (1993) ⓘ
profession	attorney-at-law ⓘ lawyer ⓘ
religion	Buddhism ⓘ
spouse	Maithree Wickremesinghe ⓘ
succeededBy	Chandrika Kumaratunga as Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (1994) ⓘ linked to: Chandrika Kumaratunga (as Prime Minister in 1994) Mahinda Rajapaksa as Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (2004) ⓘ Mahinda Rajapaksa as Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (2018) ⓘ linked to: Mahinda Rajapaksa as Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (2022) Mahinda Rajapaksa as Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (2019) ⓘ