Ranil Wickremesinghe (as Prime Minister of Sri Lanka in 1994)
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Ranil Wickremesinghe is a Sri Lankan politician and long-serving leader of the United National Party who has held the office of Prime Minister multiple times over several decades.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ranil Wickremesinghe (as Prime Minister of Sri Lanka in 1994) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9987219 — 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)
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Target entity: Ranil Wickremesinghe (as Prime Minister of Sri Lanka in 1994) Context triple: [Chandrika Kumaratunga, precededBy, Ranil Wickremesinghe (as Prime Minister of Sri Lanka in 1994)]
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Chandrika Kumaratunga (as Prime Minister in 1994)
Chandrika Kumaratunga is a Sri Lankan politician who briefly served as Prime Minister in 1994 before becoming the country’s executive President and one of its most prominent contemporary leaders.
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B.
Ratnasiri Wickremanayake (as Prime Minister in 2000)
Ratnasiri Wickremanayake was a Sri Lankan politician who served as Prime Minister in the early 2000s under President Chandrika Kumaratunga, representing the Sri Lanka Freedom Party.
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C.
J. R. Jayewardene (as Prime Minister in 1977)
J. R. Jayewardene was a Sri Lankan statesman who, after a long parliamentary career, became Prime Minister in 1977 and soon afterward the country’s first executive President, ushering in major economic liberalization and constitutional change.
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D.
Prime Minister of Ceylon
The Prime Minister of Ceylon was the head of government of the former British Dominion of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), leading the executive branch before the country became a republic.
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E.
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.
- 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 (as Prime Minister of Sri Lanka in 1994) Target entity description: Ranil Wickremesinghe is a Sri Lankan politician and long-serving leader of the United National Party who has held the office of Prime Minister multiple times over several decades.
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A.
Chandrika Kumaratunga (as Prime Minister in 1994)
Chandrika Kumaratunga is a Sri Lankan politician who briefly served as Prime Minister in 1994 before becoming the country’s executive President and one of its most prominent contemporary leaders.
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B.
Ratnasiri Wickremanayake (as Prime Minister in 2000)
Ratnasiri Wickremanayake was a Sri Lankan politician who served as Prime Minister in the early 2000s under President Chandrika Kumaratunga, representing the Sri Lanka Freedom Party.
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C.
J. R. Jayewardene (as Prime Minister in 1977)
J. R. Jayewardene was a Sri Lankan statesman who, after a long parliamentary career, became Prime Minister in 1977 and soon afterward the country’s first executive President, ushering in major economic liberalization and constitutional change.
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D.
Prime Minister of Ceylon
The Prime Minister of Ceylon was the head of government of the former British Dominion of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), leading the executive branch before the country became a republic.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Sri Lankan politician
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human ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Colombo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| constituencyRepresented | Colombo District NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | Ceylon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Sri Lanka NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1949-03-24 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Faculty of Law, University of Ceylon
NERFINISHED
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Royal College, Colombo NERFINISHED ⓘ University of Ceylon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Wickremesinghe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Ranil NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| headOfGovernmentOf | Sri Lanka NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| headOfStateOf | Sri Lanka NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
long-serving leader of the United National Party
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multiple non-consecutive terms as Prime Minister of Sri Lanka ⓘ |
| leaderOfPoliticalParty | United National Party NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOf | Parliament of Sri Lanka NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOfPoliticalParty | United National Party NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Ranil Wickremesinghe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
lawyer
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politician ⓘ |
| officeEndTime |
1994-08-19
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2004-04-06 ⓘ 2018-10-26 ⓘ 2019-11-21 ⓘ |
| officeStartTime |
1993-05-07
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2001-12-09 ⓘ 2015-01-09 ⓘ 2018-12-16 ⓘ 2022-05-12 ⓘ |
| parliamentaryGroup | United National Party NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Leader of the Opposition of Sri Lanka
NERFINISHED
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Leader of the United National Party ⓘ Minister of Education of Sri Lanka ⓘ Minister of Industries of Sri Lanka ⓘ Minister of Youth Affairs and Employment of Sri Lanka ⓘ President of Sri Lanka NERFINISHED ⓘ Prime Minister of Sri Lanka NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| precededBy |
Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga
NERFINISHED
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D. B. Wijetunga NERFINISHED ⓘ Mahinda Rajapaksa NERFINISHED ⓘ Mahinda Rajapaksa (as Prime Minister in 2022) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Buddhism ⓘ |
| spouse | Maithree Wickremesinghe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| succeededBy |
Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga
NERFINISHED
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Mahinda Rajapaksa NERFINISHED ⓘ Mahinda Rajapaksa (as Prime Minister in 2019) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Ranil Wickremesinghe (as Prime Minister of Sri Lanka in 1994) Description of subject: Ranil Wickremesinghe is a Sri Lankan politician and long-serving leader of the United National Party who has held the office of Prime Minister multiple times over several decades.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Chandrika Kumaratunga (as Prime Minister in 1994)
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precededBy
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Ranil Wickremesinghe (as Prime Minister of Sri Lanka in 1994)
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subject surface form:
Chandrika Kumaratunga