Ananda Udugama
E861549
Ananda Udugama is a character in Michael Ondaatje’s novel "Anil’s Ghost," set against the backdrop of Sri Lanka’s civil conflict.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ananda Udugama canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10391609 — 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: Ananda Udugama Context triple: [Anil's Ghost, hasCharacter, Ananda Udugama]
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A.
Sarath Amunugama
Sarath Amunugama is a Sri Lankan politician and former senior government minister who has held key portfolios including finance and served as a prominent figure in the country’s post-1990s political landscape.
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B.
Chandika Hathurusingha
Chandika Hathurusingha is a former Sri Lankan cricketer and prominent international cricket coach known for significantly improving the performance of teams such as Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.
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C.
Sarath Silva
Sarath Silva is a Sri Lankan public figure known for having served in a top-level national leadership role, including responsibility over the country’s financial governance.
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D.
Mangala Samaraweera
Mangala Samaraweera was a prominent Sri Lankan politician and diplomat who held several key ministerial portfolios, including foreign affairs and finance, and played a major role in post-war reconciliation and international relations.
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E.
Kishani Jayasinghe
Kishani Jayasinghe is a Sri Lankan operatic soprano internationally recognized for her performances on major opera stages.
- 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: Ananda Udugama Target entity description: Ananda Udugama is a character in Michael Ondaatje’s novel "Anil’s Ghost," set against the backdrop of Sri Lanka’s civil conflict.
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A.
Sarath Amunugama
Sarath Amunugama is a Sri Lankan politician and former senior government minister who has held key portfolios including finance and served as a prominent figure in the country’s post-1990s political landscape.
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B.
Chandika Hathurusingha
Chandika Hathurusingha is a former Sri Lankan cricketer and prominent international cricket coach known for significantly improving the performance of teams such as Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.
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C.
Sarath Silva
Sarath Silva is a Sri Lankan public figure known for having served in a top-level national leadership role, including responsibility over the country’s financial governance.
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D.
Mangala Samaraweera
Mangala Samaraweera was a prominent Sri Lankan politician and diplomat who held several key ministerial portfolios, including foreign affairs and finance, and played a major role in post-war reconciliation and international relations.
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E.
Kishani Jayasinghe
Kishani Jayasinghe is a Sri Lankan operatic soprano internationally recognized for her performances on major opera stages.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Anil’s Ghost
ⓘ
linked to:
Anil's Ghost
|
| appearsInGenre |
literary fiction
ⓘ
political novel ⓘ war novel ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Anil Tissera
ⓘ
Sarath Diyasena ⓘ |
| basedIn | Sri Lanka ⓘ |
| countryOfFictionalContext | Sri Lanka ⓘ |
| creator | Michael Ondaatje ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse |
Anil’s Ghost
ⓘ
linked to:
Anil's Ghost
|
| gender | male ⓘ |
| languageOfDialogue | Sinhala ⓘ |
| mediumOfAppearance | novel ⓘ |
| nationality | Sri Lankan ⓘ |
| notableWork | reconstruction of Sailor’s face ⓘ |
| occupation |
artisan
ⓘ
sculptor ⓘ |
| publisherOfWork |
Knopf
ⓘ
linked to:
Alfred A. Knopf
McClelland and Stewart ⓘ |
| relative | Sirissa ⓘ |
| roleInWork | helps identify a murder victim ⓘ |
| settingOfActivity | Sri Lankan Civil War ⓘ |
| spouse | Sirissa ⓘ |
| themeAssociation |
civil conflict
ⓘ
identity ⓘ memory ⓘ violence ⓘ |
| workPublicationYear | 2000 ⓘ |
| workPublishedIn |
Anil’s Ghost
ⓘ
linked to:
Anil's Ghost
|
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: Ananda Udugama Description of subject: Ananda Udugama is a character in Michael Ondaatje’s novel "Anil’s Ghost," set against the backdrop of Sri Lanka’s civil conflict.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.