Kauravas
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The Kauravas are the antagonistic royal clan in the Indian epic Mahabharata, known for waging the Kurukshetra War against their cousins, the Pandavas.
All labels observed (8)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kauravas canonical | 105 |
| Kaurava | 6 |
| the Kauravas | 6 |
| Kaurava faction | 1 |
| Kaurava side | 1 |
| Kaurava sons | 1 |
| KauravaCourt | 1 |
| KauravaSide | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T860765 — 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: Kauravas Context triple: [Kurukshetra battlefield, associatedWith, Kauravas]
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A.
Pandavas
The Pandavas are the five heroic brothers and central protagonists of the Indian epic Mahabharata, known for their righteousness and pivotal role in the Kurukshetra War.
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B.
Sanjaya
Sanjaya is the charioteer and seer in the Mahabharata who, granted divine vision, narrates the events of the Kurukshetra war to the blind king Dhritarashtra.
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Sanjaya
Sanjaya was an early Javanese king traditionally regarded as the founder of the Mataram (Medang) Kingdom and the Sanjaya dynasty in Central Java.
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D.
Arjuna
Arjuna is a central warrior prince in the Indian epic Mahabharata, renowned as the chief disciple of Krishna and the primary recipient of the teachings in the Bhagavad Gita.
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E.
Shravikas
Shravikas are lay followers in Jainism who observe religious duties and ethical principles while living a household life outside the monastic order.
- 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: Kauravas Target entity description: The Kauravas are the antagonistic royal clan in the Indian epic Mahabharata, known for waging the Kurukshetra War against their cousins, the Pandavas.
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A.
Pandavas
The Pandavas are the five heroic brothers and central protagonists of the Indian epic Mahabharata, known for their righteousness and pivotal role in the Kurukshetra War.
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B.
Sanjaya
Sanjaya is the charioteer and seer in the Mahabharata who, granted divine vision, narrates the events of the Kurukshetra war to the blind king Dhritarashtra.
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C.
Sanjaya
Sanjaya was an early Javanese king traditionally regarded as the founder of the Mataram (Medang) Kingdom and the Sanjaya dynasty in Central Java.
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D.
Arjuna
Arjuna is a central warrior prince in the Indian epic Mahabharata, renowned as the chief disciple of Krishna and the primary recipient of the teachings in the Bhagavad Gita.
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E.
Shravikas
Shravikas are lay followers in Jainism who observe religious duties and ethical principles while living a household life outside the monastic order.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Kauravas Description of subject: The Kauravas are the antagonistic royal clan in the Indian epic Mahabharata, known for waging the Kurukshetra War against their cousins, the Pandavas.
Referenced by (122)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Bhishma Parva of the Mahabharata
linked to: Kauravas
linked to: Kauravas
linked to: Kauravas
linked to: Kauravas