Kusinara
E940313
Kusinara is the ancient name of the town now known as Kushinagar in India, revered in Buddhism as the place where Gautama Buddha attained parinirvana (final nirvana).
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kusinara canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11674000 — 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: Kusinara Context triple: [Kushinagar, ancientName, Kusinara]
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A.
Katsuura
Katsuura is a coastal city in Chiba Prefecture, Japan, known for its fishing port, seafood markets, and scenic Pacific shoreline.
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B.
Kōtaishi
Kōtaishi is the formal Japanese title used to designate the heir apparent to the Chrysanthemum Throne.
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C.
Koromo
Koromo was the former name of what is now Toyota City in Aichi Prefecture, Japan, historically known as a regional center before becoming synonymous with the Toyota automobile company.
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D.
Shimotsuki
Shimotsuki was a Japanese destroyer of the Imperial Japanese Navy that served in World War II before being sunk in late 1944.
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E.
Shimaore
Shimaore is a Bantu language closely related to Comorian, widely spoken by the local population of Mayotte in the Indian Ocean.
- 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: Kusinara Target entity description: Kusinara is the ancient name of the town now known as Kushinagar in India, revered in Buddhism as the place where Gautama Buddha attained parinirvana (final nirvana).
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A.
Katsuura
Katsuura is a coastal city in Chiba Prefecture, Japan, known for its fishing port, seafood markets, and scenic Pacific shoreline.
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B.
Kōtaishi
Kōtaishi is the formal Japanese title used to designate the heir apparent to the Chrysanthemum Throne.
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C.
Koromo
Koromo was the former name of what is now Toyota City in Aichi Prefecture, Japan, historically known as a regional center before becoming synonymous with the Toyota automobile company.
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D.
Shimotsuki
Shimotsuki was a Japanese destroyer of the Imperial Japanese Navy that served in World War II before being sunk in late 1944.
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E.
Shimaore
Shimaore is a Bantu language closely related to Comorian, widely spoken by the local population of Mayotte in the Indian Ocean.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Buddhist pilgrimage site
ⓘ
ancient city ⓘ historical place ⓘ |
| alternativeTransliteration |
Kushinara
ⓘ
Kusinagara ⓘ |
| archaeologicalStatus | archaeological site ⓘ |
| associatedDoctrine |
Four Noble Truths
ⓘ
impermanence ⓘ parinirvana ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Gautama Buddha
ⓘ
linked to:
Buddha
|
| commemoratedBy |
monasteries
ⓘ
stupas ⓘ temples ⓘ |
| country | India ⓘ |
| event |
parinirvana of Gautama Buddha
ⓘ
linked to:
Buddha’s parinirvana
|
| governedBy |
Mallas
ⓘ
linked to:
Malla
|
| hasClimate | humid subtropical climate ⓘ |
| hasPilgrimageSeason |
Vesak period
ⓘ
linked to:
Vesak
|
| hasSite |
Mahaparinirvana Temple
ⓘ
Parinirvana Stupa ⓘ Rambhar Stupa ⓘ
linked to:
Ramabhar Stupa
cremation stupa of the Buddha ⓘ |
| heritageType | religious heritage site ⓘ |
| historicalRegion |
Malla kingdom
ⓘ
linked to:
Malla kingdoms
|
| languageOfName | Pali ⓘ |
| linkedTo | Kushinagar International Airport ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Kushinagar district
ⓘ
Uttar Pradesh ⓘ northern India ⓘ |
| locatedOn | near Hiranyavati River ⓘ |
| mentionedIn |
Mahaparinibbana Sutta
ⓘ
Pali Canon ⓘ
linked to:
the Pali Canon
|
| modernName | Kushinagar ⓘ |
| nearbyCity | Gorakhpur ⓘ |
| partOf | Buddhist Circuit in India ⓘ |
| pilgrimageType | Buddhist pilgrimage ⓘ |
| religion | Buddhism ⓘ |
| reveredIn | Buddhism ⓘ |
| sacredTo |
Mahayana Buddhists
ⓘ
linked to:
Mahayana
Theravada Buddhists ⓘ
linked to:
Theravada
Vajrayana Buddhists ⓘ
linked to:
Vajrayana
|
| significanceInBuddhism |
one of the four major Buddhist pilgrimage sites
ⓘ
place where Gautama Buddha attained parinirvana ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 5th century BCE ⓘ |
| transportAccess |
air
ⓘ
rail ⓘ road ⓘ |
| visitedBy |
Buddhist pilgrims
ⓘ
international 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: Kusinara Description of subject: Kusinara is the ancient name of the town now known as Kushinagar in India, revered in Buddhism as the place where Gautama Buddha attained parinirvana (final nirvana).
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.