Dhritarashtra
E103326
Dhritarashtra is the blind Kuru king in the Indian epic Mahabharata, whose inner conflict and questions frame the dialogue of the Bhagavad Gita.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dhritarashtra canonical | 73 |
| Dhritarashtra and Vyasa | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T860903 — 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: Dhritarashtra Context triple: [Arjuna Vishada Yoga, addressedTo, Dhritarashtra]
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A.
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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B.
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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C.
Karamchand
Karamchand is an Indian given name best known as part of the full name of Mahatma Gandhi, whose father was Karamchand Gandhi.
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D.
Dinshaw Wacha
Dinshaw Wacha was an early Indian nationalist leader and prominent Parsi political figure who played a key role in the formative years of the Indian National Congress.
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E.
Bardiya
Bardiya was a son of the Achaemenid ruler Cyrus the Great who briefly and controversially claimed the Persian throne in the late 6th century BCE.
- 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: Dhritarashtra Target entity description: Dhritarashtra is the blind Kuru king in the Indian epic Mahabharata, whose inner conflict and questions frame the dialogue of the Bhagavad Gita.
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A.
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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B.
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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C.
Karamchand
Karamchand is an Indian given name best known as part of the full name of Mahatma Gandhi, whose father was Karamchand Gandhi.
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D.
Dinshaw Wacha
Dinshaw Wacha was an early Indian nationalist leader and prominent Parsi political figure who played a key role in the formative years of the Indian National Congress.
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E.
Bardiya
Bardiya was a son of the Achaemenid ruler Cyrus the Great who briefly and controversially claimed the Persian throne in the late 6th century BCE.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Hindu mythological figure
ⓘ
Kuru king ⓘ character in the Mahabharata ⓘ mythological king ⓘ |
| advisor |
Sanjaya
ⓘ
Vidura ⓘ |
| associatedText |
Jaya (core text of the Mahabharata)
ⓘ
linked to:
Mahabharata
|
| attribute | blind from birth ⓘ |
| biologicalFather | Vyasa ⓘ |
| brother |
Pandu
ⓘ
Vidura ⓘ |
| capital | Hastinapura ⓘ |
| causeOfBlindness | born blind due to Ambika’s fear of Vyasa ⓘ |
| child |
100 Kaurava sons
ⓘ
Duhshala ⓘ |
| cousin |
Bhishma
ⓘ
Kaurava–Pandava shared ancestor Shantanu’s line ⓘ |
| culturalContext | ancient Indian epic tradition ⓘ |
| deathTradition | dies in a forest fire in the Himalayas (according to some versions) ⓘ |
| dialogueFraming | questions that frame the Bhagavad Gita discourse ⓘ |
| dynasty | Kuru dynasty ⓘ |
| epic | Mahabharata ⓘ |
| father | Vichitravirya ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| grandson |
Lakshmana Kumara
ⓘ
Laxman Kumara of Duryodhana ⓘ |
| house | House of Kuru ⓘ |
| kingdom |
Kuru kingdom
ⓘ
linked to:
Kuru Kingdom
|
| knownFor |
failure to restrain Duryodhana
ⓘ
lamenting the destruction of the Kauravas ⓘ |
| languageOfPrimarySources | Sanskrit ⓘ |
| moralCharacteristic |
attached to his sons
ⓘ
indecisive ⓘ internally conflicted ⓘ |
| mother | Ambika ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | symbol of blind attachment and moral weakness ⓘ |
| notableWorkContext | Bhagavad Gita ⓘ |
| postWarAction | retires to the forest with Gandhari and Kunti ⓘ |
| receivesDivineVisionByProxy | through Sanjaya’s divine sight granted by Vyasa ⓘ |
| religion | Hinduism ⓘ |
| roleInBhagavadGita | listener of Sanjaya’s narration ⓘ |
| son |
Duryodhana
ⓘ
Dushasana ⓘ Vikarna ⓘ |
| spouse | Gandhari ⓘ |
| symbolism | blindness as metaphor for ignorance and attachment ⓘ |
| title | King of Hastinapura ⓘ |
| uncle | Shakuni ⓘ |
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: Dhritarashtra Description of subject: Dhritarashtra is the blind Kuru king in the Indian epic Mahabharata, whose inner conflict and questions frame the dialogue of the Bhagavad Gita.
Referenced by (74)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Bhishma Parva of the Mahabharata
linked to: Dhritarashtra
subject linked to:
Sanjaya and Dhritarashtra
subject linked to:
Sanjaya and Dhritarashtra
subject linked to:
Sanjaya and Dhritarashtra