Kushinara
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Kushinara is the ancient name of the Indian city now known as Kushinagar, revered in Buddhism as the place where Gautama Buddha attained parinirvana (final nirvana).
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kushinara canonical | 2 |
| Ancient Kushinara | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11674001 — 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: Kushinara Context triple: [Kushinagar, ancientName, Kushinara]
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A.
Kusamakura
Kusamakura is a 1906 novel by Natsume Sōseki that blends poetic prose, philosophical reflection, and aesthetic contemplation through the journey of an artist in a remote mountain hot-spring village.
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B.
Chimariko
Chimariko is an extinct Native American language once spoken by the Chimariko people in northwestern California.
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C.
Tenkasi
Tenkasi is a town in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, known for its scenic Western Ghats backdrop, historic temples, and growing role as an emerging technology hub.
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D.
Ofunato
Ofunato is a coastal city in northeastern Japan known for its fishing industry and the severe damage it suffered during the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami.
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E.
Shimabukuro
Shimabukuro is a Japanese surname most notably associated with virtuoso ukulele player Jake Shimabukuro.
- 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: Kushinara Target entity description: Kushinara is the ancient name of the Indian city now known as Kushinagar, revered in Buddhism as the place where Gautama Buddha attained parinirvana (final nirvana).
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A.
Kusamakura
Kusamakura is a 1906 novel by Natsume Sōseki that blends poetic prose, philosophical reflection, and aesthetic contemplation through the journey of an artist in a remote mountain hot-spring village.
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B.
Chimariko
Chimariko is an extinct Native American language once spoken by the Chimariko people in northwestern California.
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C.
Tenkasi
Tenkasi is a town in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, known for its scenic Western Ghats backdrop, historic temples, and growing role as an emerging technology hub.
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D.
Ofunato
Ofunato is a coastal city in northeastern Japan known for its fishing industry and the severe damage it suffered during the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami.
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E.
Shimabukuro
Shimabukuro is a Japanese surname most notably associated with virtuoso ukulele player Jake Shimabukuro.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Buddhist pilgrimage site
ⓘ
archaeological site ⓘ historical city ⓘ |
| accessibleVia |
Kushinagar Airport
ⓘ
linked to:
Kushinagar International Airport
|
| alternativeTransliteration |
Kusinagara
ⓘ
Kusinara ⓘ |
| ancientPoliticalStatus | capital of the Malla republic ⓘ |
| associatedWithDoctrine | teaching on impermanence at time of parinirvana ⓘ |
| associatedWithEvent |
parinirvana of Gautama Buddha
ⓘ
linked to:
Buddha’s parinirvana
|
| associatedWithPerson |
Gautama Buddha
ⓘ
linked to:
Buddha
|
| culturalSignificance | one of the four major Buddhist pilgrimage sites ⓘ |
| formerNameOf | Kushinagar ⓘ |
| hasNearbySite |
Mahaparinirvana Stupa
ⓘ
linked to:
Parinirvana Stupa
Mahaparinirvana Temple ⓘ Matha Kuar Shrine ⓘ Rambhar Stupa ⓘ
linked to:
Ramabhar Stupa
ancient monastic ruins ⓘ |
| hasReligiousFunction |
destination for international Buddhist pilgrimage
ⓘ
site for Buddhist meditation and worship ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | important site in the Buddhist Circuit of India ⓘ |
| identifiedWith | modern town of Kushinagar ⓘ |
| languageOfAncientName | Pali ⓘ |
| locatedInAncientRegion |
Kosala cultural sphere
ⓘ
Malla territory ⓘ |
| locatedInCountry | India ⓘ |
| locatedInDistrict | Kushinagar district ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | eastern Uttar Pradesh ⓘ |
| locatedInState | Uttar Pradesh ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Gandak River ⓘ |
| mentionedInText |
Buddhist Vinaya texts
ⓘ
Buddhist commentarial literature ⓘ Mahaparinibbana Sutta ⓘ Pali Canon ⓘ
linked to:
the Pali Canon
|
| nearbyUrbanCenter | Gorakhpur ⓘ |
| oneOfFourHolySitesAlongWith |
Bodh Gaya
ⓘ
Lumbini ⓘ Sarnath ⓘ |
| reveredInReligion |
Buddhism
ⓘ
Hinduism ⓘ Jainism ⓘ |
| ruledBy | Malla mahajanapada ⓘ |
| significanceInBuddhism | place where Gautama Buddha attained parinirvana ⓘ |
| timeOfBuddhaParinirvana | 5th–4th century BCE (traditional dating range) ⓘ |
| visitedBy |
Ashoka
ⓘ
Faxian ⓘ Xuanzang ⓘ modern Buddhist pilgrims ⓘ |
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: Kushinara Description of subject: Kushinara is the ancient name of the Indian city now known as Kushinagar, revered in Buddhism as the place where Gautama Buddha attained parinirvana (final nirvana).
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Kushinara