Devaki
E102082
Devaki is a revered figure in Hindu mythology best known as the mother of Lord Krishna.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Devaki canonical | 4 |
| Vasudeva's unnamed sister | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T859386 — 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: Devaki Context triple: [Krishna, parents, Devaki]
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A.
Sarada Devi
Sarada Devi was the wife and spiritual consort of Sri Ramakrishna and a revered Hindu saint known as the Holy Mother in the Ramakrishna movement.
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B.
Bhagirathi Sapre
Bhagirathi Sapre was the mother of Rani Lakshmibai, the famed warrior queen of Jhansi who became a symbol of resistance during the Indian Rebellion of 1857.
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C.
Pranhita
Pranhita is a major river in central India that flows through the states of Maharashtra and Telangana before joining the Godavari River.
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D.
Gulab Devi
Gulab Devi was the mother of Indian freedom fighter Lala Lajpat Rai and is remembered primarily for her influence on his early life and values.
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E.
Gyanadanandini Devi
Gyanadanandini Devi was a pioneering Bengali social reformer and member of the Tagore family, known for modernizing women's attire and advocating for women's emancipation in 19th-century India.
- 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: Devaki Target entity description: Devaki is a revered figure in Hindu mythology best known as the mother of Lord Krishna.
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A.
Sarada Devi
Sarada Devi was the wife and spiritual consort of Sri Ramakrishna and a revered Hindu saint known as the Holy Mother in the Ramakrishna movement.
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B.
Bhagirathi Sapre
Bhagirathi Sapre was the mother of Rani Lakshmibai, the famed warrior queen of Jhansi who became a symbol of resistance during the Indian Rebellion of 1857.
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C.
Pranhita
Pranhita is a major river in central India that flows through the states of Maharashtra and Telangana before joining the Godavari River.
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D.
Gulab Devi
Gulab Devi was the mother of Indian freedom fighter Lala Lajpat Rai and is remembered primarily for her influence on his early life and values.
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E.
Gyanadanandini Devi
Gyanadanandini Devi was a pioneering Bengali social reformer and member of the Tagore family, known for modernizing women's attire and advocating for women's emancipation in 19th-century India.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Hindu mythological figure
ⓘ
mother of a deity ⓘ |
| associatedDeity |
Krishna
ⓘ
Vishnu ⓘ |
| associatedPlace |
Mathura
ⓘ
Yadava kingdom ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Bhagavata Purana
ⓘ
Mahabharata ⓘ Mathura ⓘ Yadava clan ⓘ
linked to:
Yadava
|
| category |
Characters in the Bhagavata Purana
ⓘ
Characters in the Mahabharata ⓘ Mothers of Hindu deities ⓘ |
| child |
Aniruddha (in some traditions)
ⓘ
linked to:
Narayana
Balarama ⓘ Krishna ⓘ Pradyumna (in some traditions) ⓘ
linked to:
Narayana
Sankarshana (Balarama) ⓘ
linked to:
Balarama
six elder sons killed by Kamsa ⓘ |
| culture | Indian ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| imprisonedIn | Mathura prison of Kamsa ⓘ |
| imprisonedWith |
Vasudeva
ⓘ
linked to:
Krishna
|
| knownFor |
being the mother of Balarama (in some traditions)
ⓘ
being the mother of Krishna ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Sanskrit ⓘ |
| marriageEvent | married to Vasudeva in Mathura ⓘ |
| mythologicalEra | Dvapara Yuga ⓘ |
| notableEvent |
Krishna was secretly taken from her to Gokul
ⓘ
linked to:
Yashoda
gave birth to Krishna in prison ⓘ witnessed killing of her first six sons by Kamsa ⓘ |
| parent | Devaka ⓘ |
| persecutedBy | Kamsa ⓘ |
| prophecyAbout | her eighth son would kill Kamsa ⓘ |
| religion | Hinduism ⓘ |
| roleInMythology | central figure in Krishna’s birth narrative ⓘ |
| scripturalSource |
Bhagavata Purana
ⓘ
Harivamsa ⓘ Vishnu Purana ⓘ |
| sibling |
Kamsa
ⓘ
brother Kamsa (maternal relation in some accounts) ⓘ |
| spouse |
Vasudeva
ⓘ
linked to:
Krishna
|
| veneratedAs | mother of God (in Vaishnavism) ⓘ |
| worshippedIn | Vaishnavism ⓘ |
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: Devaki Description of subject: Devaki is a revered figure in Hindu mythology best known as the mother of Lord Krishna.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.