Nanda
E102083
Nanda is the chief cowherd of Gokul in Hindu tradition, revered as the foster father of the god Krishna.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Nanda canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T859387 — 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: Nanda Context triple: [Krishna, fosterParents, Nanda]
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A.
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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B.
Amara Namani
Amara Namani is a young, resourceful Jaeger pilot and central protagonist in the science fiction film "Pacific Rim: Uprising."
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C.
Sonia
Sonia is a central female character in the romantic comedy film "Think Like a Man," whose relationships and personal growth intersect with the movie’s ensemble cast and themes about modern dating.
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D.
Lal Bai
Lal Bai was the mother of Bahadur Shah II, the last Mughal emperor of India.
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E.
Ponna
Ponna was a prominent 10th-century Kannada poet of the Rashtrakuta court, renowned for his Jain devotional and classical literary works.
- 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: Nanda Target entity description: Nanda is the chief cowherd of Gokul in Hindu tradition, revered as the foster father of the god Krishna.
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A.
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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B.
Amara Namani
Amara Namani is a young, resourceful Jaeger pilot and central protagonist in the science fiction film "Pacific Rim: Uprising."
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C.
Sonia
Sonia is a central female character in the romantic comedy film "Think Like a Man," whose relationships and personal growth intersect with the movie’s ensemble cast and themes about modern dating.
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D.
Lal Bai
Lal Bai was the mother of Bahadur Shah II, the last Mughal emperor of India.
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E.
Ponna
Ponna was a prominent 10th-century Kannada poet of the Rashtrakuta court, renowned for his Jain devotional and classical literary works.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Hindu religious figure
ⓘ
mythological figure ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Krishna childhood narratives ⓘ |
| associatedDeity | Krishna ⓘ |
| associatedText |
Bhagavata Purana
ⓘ
Harivamsa ⓘ Vishnu Purana ⓘ |
| associatedTradition | Vaishnavism ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Gokul
ⓘ
Vraja ⓘ
linked to:
Braj
Vrindavan ⓘ |
| brother |
Nandana
ⓘ
Sananda ⓘ Sunanda ⓘ Upananda ⓘ |
| category |
Characters in the Bhagavata Purana
ⓘ
linked to:
Bhagavata Purana
Krishna’s family ⓘ
linked to:
Krishna
Vaishnavite saints and figures ⓘ |
| clan | Gopa community ⓘ |
| culture | Indian ⓘ |
| depictedWith |
Yashoda
ⓘ
infant Krishna ⓘ |
| devotionalRole | ideal loving father of God in bhakti traditions ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Yadava ⓘ |
| father | Parjanya ⓘ |
| fosterFatherOf |
Balarama
ⓘ
Krishna ⓘ |
| guardianOf | Krishna’s childhood in Gokul ⓘ |
| household | Nanda’s house in Gokul ⓘ |
| languageOfSources | Sanskrit ⓘ |
| mother | Variyasi ⓘ |
| notableEvent |
moved with Krishna from Gokul to Vrindavan
ⓘ
protected Krishna during Kamsa’s attempts to kill him ⓘ |
| occupation | cowherd ⓘ |
| region |
Mathura region
ⓘ
linked to:
Mathura district
|
| religion | Hinduism ⓘ |
| residence | Gokul ⓘ |
| role | chief cowherd of Gokul ⓘ |
| spouse | Yashoda ⓘ |
| title |
Nanda Baba
ⓘ
Nanda Maharaj ⓘ
linked to:
Nanda Baba
|
| worshippedIn |
Braj region
ⓘ
North India ⓘ
linked to:
northern India
|
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: Nanda Description of subject: Nanda is the chief cowherd of Gokul in Hindu tradition, revered as the foster father of the god Krishna.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.