Balbir Raj Kapoor
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Balbir Raj Kapoor, better known as Shashi Kapoor, was a prominent Indian film actor and producer from the famous Kapoor family who became one of Hindi cinema’s most popular stars of the 1960s–1980s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Balbir Raj Kapoor canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11289262 — 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: Balbir Raj Kapoor Context triple: [Shashi Kapoor, birthName, Balbir Raj Kapoor]
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A.
Randhir Kapoor
Randhir Kapoor is an Indian actor, director, and producer from the prominent Kapoor film family, known for his work in Hindi cinema since the 1970s.
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B.
Surinder Kapoor
Surinder Kapoor was an Indian film producer and patriarch of a prominent Bollywood family, known for his contributions to Hindi cinema and as the father of filmmaker Boney Kapoor and actors Anil and Sanjay Kapoor.
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C.
Boney Kapoor
Boney Kapoor is a prominent Indian film producer known for backing numerous successful Bollywood and South Indian films.
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D.
Rajiv Kapoor
Rajiv Kapoor was an Indian film actor, director, and producer from the Kapoor family, known for starring in the 1985 film "Ram Teri Ganga Maili."
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E.
Jaidev Kapoor
Jaidev Kapoor was an Indian revolutionary and member of the Hindustan Socialist Republican Association who participated in the anti-colonial freedom struggle against British rule.
- 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: Balbir Raj Kapoor Target entity description: Balbir Raj Kapoor, better known as Shashi Kapoor, was a prominent Indian film actor and producer from the famous Kapoor family who became one of Hindi cinema’s most popular stars of the 1960s–1980s.
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A.
Randhir Kapoor
Randhir Kapoor is an Indian actor, director, and producer from the prominent Kapoor film family, known for his work in Hindi cinema since the 1970s.
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B.
Surinder Kapoor
Surinder Kapoor was an Indian film producer and patriarch of a prominent Bollywood family, known for his contributions to Hindi cinema and as the father of filmmaker Boney Kapoor and actors Anil and Sanjay Kapoor.
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C.
Boney Kapoor
Boney Kapoor is a prominent Indian film producer known for backing numerous successful Bollywood and South Indian films.
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D.
Rajiv Kapoor
Rajiv Kapoor was an Indian film actor, director, and producer from the Kapoor family, known for starring in the 1985 film "Ram Teri Ganga Maili."
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E.
Jaidev Kapoor
Jaidev Kapoor was an Indian revolutionary and member of the Hindustan Socialist Republican Association who participated in the anti-colonial freedom struggle against British rule.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Bollywood actor
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Hindi film actor ⓘ Indian film actor ⓘ Kapoor family member ⓘ film producer ⓘ human ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd | 1990s ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1940s ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Filmfare Award
NERFINISHED
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National Film Award for Best Actor NERFINISHED ⓘ National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Hindi NERFINISHED ⓘ Padma Bhushan ⓘ |
| child |
Karan Kapoor
NERFINISHED
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Kunal Kapoor NERFINISHED ⓘ Sanjana Kapoor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | India ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1938-03-18 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2017-12-04 ⓘ |
| father | Prithviraj Kapoor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | Hindi cinema NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | Hindi ⓘ |
| memberOf | Kapoor family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Balbir Raj Kapoor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableAward | Dadasaheb Phalke Award NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being one of Hindi cinema’s most popular stars of the 1960s–1980s
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work in both commercial and art-house Indian cinema ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Deewaar
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Heat and Dust NERFINISHED ⓘ Jab Jab Phool Khile NERFINISHED ⓘ Junoon NERFINISHED ⓘ Kabhi Kabhie NERFINISHED ⓘ Kalyug NERFINISHED ⓘ Namak Halaal NERFINISHED ⓘ Satyam Shivam Sundaram NERFINISHED ⓘ Sharmeelee NERFINISHED ⓘ Trishul NERFINISHED ⓘ Waqt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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film producer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Bengal Presidency
NERFINISHED
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British India ⓘ Calcutta NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
India
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Maharashtra NERFINISHED ⓘ Mumbai NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sibling |
Raj Kapoor
NERFINISHED
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Shammi Kapoor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Jennifer Kendal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| stageName | Shashi Kapoor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workedWith |
Amitabh Bachchan
NERFINISHED
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Yash Chopra NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Balbir Raj Kapoor Description of subject: Balbir Raj Kapoor, better known as Shashi Kapoor, was a prominent Indian film actor and producer from the famous Kapoor family who became one of Hindi cinema’s most popular stars of the 1960s–1980s.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.