Niśītha
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Niśītha is a key Jain canonical text within the Chedasutras, dealing primarily with monastic discipline and rules of conduct for ascetics.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Niśītha canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10576132 — 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: Niśītha Context triple: [Chedasutras, hasPart, Niśītha]
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A.
Śaunaka
Śaunaka is an ancient Vedic sage traditionally regarded as an authority on ritual, lineage, and early Hindu sacred lore.
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B.
Savitrī
Savitrī is a legendary heroine from the Mahābhārata renowned for her unwavering devotion and intelligence, who wins back her husband’s life from the god of death through courage and spiritual resolve.
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C.
Nriga
Nriga is a king from Hindu mythology, known for being cursed and transformed into a lizard after an unintended offense involving a cow.
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D.
Kshipra
Kshipra is a sacred river in central India, best known for flowing through the holy city of Ujjain and its importance in Hindu religious traditions and festivals.
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E.
Isha
Isha is the nightly Islamic prayer that is performed after dusk and marks the final of the five daily obligatory prayers in Islam.
- 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: Niśītha Target entity description: Niśītha is a key Jain canonical text within the Chedasutras, dealing primarily with monastic discipline and rules of conduct for ascetics.
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A.
Śaunaka
Śaunaka is an ancient Vedic sage traditionally regarded as an authority on ritual, lineage, and early Hindu sacred lore.
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B.
Savitrī
Savitrī is a legendary heroine from the Mahābhārata renowned for her unwavering devotion and intelligence, who wins back her husband’s life from the god of death through courage and spiritual resolve.
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C.
Nriga
Nriga is a king from Hindu mythology, known for being cursed and transformed into a lizard after an unintended offense involving a cow.
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D.
Kshipra
Kshipra is a sacred river in central India, best known for flowing through the holy city of Ujjain and its importance in Hindu religious traditions and festivals.
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E.
Isha
Isha is the nightly Islamic prayer that is performed after dusk and marks the final of the five daily obligatory prayers in Islam.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Chedasūtra
ⓘ
Jain canonical text ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Jain mendicant order ⓘ |
| canonicalStatus | part of Śvetāmbara canon ⓘ |
| category | Jain monastic law text ⓘ |
| concerns | infractions of ascetic conduct ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
expiation procedures
ⓘ
monastic discipline ⓘ rules of conduct for ascetics ⓘ transgressions of monastic vows ⓘ |
| genre | religious legal text ⓘ |
| language |
Ardhamāgadhī Prakrit
ⓘ
linked to:
Ardhamagadhi Prakrit
|
| partOf |
Chedasūtras
ⓘ
linked to:
Chedasutras
Jain Āgamas ⓘ
linked to:
Jain Agamas
|
| prescribes |
penances for monastic offences
ⓘ
procedures for confession ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Bṛhatkalpa
ⓘ
Daśāśrutaskandha ⓘ Jain monastic disciplinary system ⓘ Vyavahāra ⓘ |
| religion | Jainism ⓘ |
| scriptureType | disciplinary code ⓘ |
| tradition |
Śvetāmbara Jainism
ⓘ
linked to:
Svetambara
|
| usedBy |
Jain monks
ⓘ
Jain nuns ⓘ |
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: Niśītha Description of subject: Niśītha is a key Jain canonical text within the Chedasutras, dealing primarily with monastic discipline and rules of conduct for ascetics.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.