Tiṣya
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Tiṣya is known in Buddhist tradition as the father of Śāriputra, one of the Buddha’s foremost disciples renowned for his wisdom.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11674255 — 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: Tiṣya Context triple: [Śāriputra, hasFather, Tiṣya]
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A.
Hemera
Hemera is the ancient Greek primordial goddess and personification of daylight, often contrasted with her mother Nyx, the goddess of night.
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B.
Tigani
Tigani is the former name of the town now known as Pythagoreio, a historic coastal settlement on the Greek island of Samos.
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C.
Tenea
Tenea was an ancient Greek city, traditionally associated with Corinthian colonists and mythic Trojan origins, known from classical sources and archaeological discoveries in the Peloponnese.
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D.
Rahu
Rahu is a shadowy celestial deity in Hindu astrology and mythology, associated with eclipses, karmic obstacles, and one of the nine planetary influences (Navagraha).
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E.
Hilaeira
Hilaeira is a figure in Greek mythology, one of the daughters of Leucippus who, along with her sister Phoebe, was abducted by the Dioscuri, Castor and Pollux.
- 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: Tiṣya Target entity description: Tiṣya is known in Buddhist tradition as the father of Śāriputra, one of the Buddha’s foremost disciples renowned for his wisdom.
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A.
Hemera
Hemera is the ancient Greek primordial goddess and personification of daylight, often contrasted with her mother Nyx, the goddess of night.
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B.
Tigani
Tigani is the former name of the town now known as Pythagoreio, a historic coastal settlement on the Greek island of Samos.
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C.
Tenea
Tenea was an ancient Greek city, traditionally associated with Corinthian colonists and mythic Trojan origins, known from classical sources and archaeological discoveries in the Peloponnese.
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D.
Rahu
Rahu is a shadowy celestial deity in Hindu astrology and mythology, associated with eclipses, karmic obstacles, and one of the nine planetary influences (Navagraha).
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E.
Hilaeira
Hilaeira is a figure in Greek mythology, one of the daughters of Leucippus who, along with her sister Phoebe, was abducted by the Dioscuri, Castor and Pollux.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (11)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
figure in Buddhist tradition
ⓘ
person ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Śāriputra ⓘ |
| childIsDiscipleOf |
Gautama Buddha
ⓘ
linked to:
Buddha
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| childRenownedFor | wisdom ⓘ |
| fatherOf | Śāriputra ⓘ |
| mentionedIn | Buddhist tradition ⓘ |
| nameVariant |
Tishya
ⓘ
linked to:
Tiṣya
Tisya ⓘ |
| religiousContext | Buddhism ⓘ |
| roleInNarrative | father of one of the Buddha’s foremost disciples ⓘ |
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: Tiṣya Description of subject: Tiṣya is known in Buddhist tradition as the father of Śāriputra, one of the Buddha’s foremost disciples renowned for his wisdom.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Tiṣya
linked to: Tiṣya