Khön family
E1041216
The Khön family is a hereditary Tibetan noble lineage that has traditionally provided the principal leaders of the Sakya school of Tibetan Buddhism.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Khön family canonical | 4 |
| Khön family lineage | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13453601 — 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: Khön family Context triple: [Sakya school, leadershipFamily, Khön family]
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A.
Daju family
The Daju family is a group of closely related Eastern Sudanic languages spoken primarily in parts of Sudan and Chad.
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B.
Han clan
The Han clan was one of the powerful aristocratic lineages in ancient China that emerged as a major feudal state following the breakup of the Jin kingdom during the Warring States period.
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C.
Barqid family
The Barqid family was a powerful Carthaginian noble house best known for producing the famed general Hannibal Barca and leading Carthage during the Punic Wars against Rome.
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D.
Enghee clan
The Enghee clan is a distinct social or familial group associated with the community or lineage of Teron.
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E.
Tekin family
The Tekin family is the main fictional household whose dramatic struggles and moral conflicts drive the plot of the Turkish television series "Yaprak Dökümü."
- 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: Khön family Target entity description: The Khön family is a hereditary Tibetan noble lineage that has traditionally provided the principal leaders of the Sakya school of Tibetan Buddhism.
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A.
Daju family
The Daju family is a group of closely related Eastern Sudanic languages spoken primarily in parts of Sudan and Chad.
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B.
Han clan
The Han clan was one of the powerful aristocratic lineages in ancient China that emerged as a major feudal state following the breakup of the Jin kingdom during the Warring States period.
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C.
Barqid family
The Barqid family was a powerful Carthaginian noble house best known for producing the famed general Hannibal Barca and leading Carthage during the Punic Wars against Rome.
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D.
Enghee clan
The Enghee clan is a distinct social or familial group associated with the community or lineage of Teron.
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E.
Tekin family
The Tekin family is the main fictional household whose dramatic struggles and moral conflicts drive the plot of the Turkish television series "Yaprak Dökümü."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Tibetan noble family
ⓘ
hereditary religious lineage ⓘ |
| associatedDynastyOrPeriod |
Ganden Phodrang period of Tibet
ⓘ
linked to:
Ganden Phodrang period
Phagmodrupa period of Tibet ⓘ |
| associatedMonasticSeat |
Dolma Phodrang
ⓘ
Drolma Phodrang ⓘ
linked to:
Dolma Phodrang
Pönchok Phodrang ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Sakya school of Tibetan Buddhism
ⓘ
linked to:
Sakya school
Yuan dynasty imperial court via Chögyal Phagpa ⓘ |
| country | Tibet ⓘ |
| culturalSphere | Himalayan Buddhist culture ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Tibetan people ⓘ |
| founded | early period of the Sakya school ⓘ |
| governanceRole | provided hierarchs recognized as Sakya Trizin ⓘ |
| hasInfluenceOn |
Sakya philosophical and tantric systems
ⓘ
transmission of Lamdre teachings ⓘ |
| hasMember |
Chögyal Phagpa
ⓘ
Gyana Vajra Rinpoche ⓘ Khön Könchok Gyalpo ⓘ Ngawang Kunga Tekchen Palbar ⓘ Ngawang Kunga Thekchen Palbar Trinley Samphel ⓘ Ratna Vajra Rinpoche ⓘ Sakya Pandita Kunga Gyaltsen ⓘ
linked to:
Sakya Paṇḍita
Sakya Trizin Ngawang Kunga ⓘ
linked to:
Sakya Trizin
|
| hasReligiousFunction |
custodianship of Sakya doctrinal transmissions
ⓘ
ordination and training of Sakya clergy ⓘ |
| hasRole | principal leadership of the Sakya school ⓘ |
| hasTitle | Sakya Trizin ⓘ |
| historicalImportance | one of the principal aristocratic families of Tibet ⓘ |
| influenced |
Mongol–Tibetan relations in the Yuan dynasty
ⓘ
Tibetan religious politics ⓘ |
| language |
Tibetan language
ⓘ
linked to:
Tibetan
|
| leadershipStructure | hereditary succession within the family ⓘ |
| lineageType | patrilineal noble lineage ⓘ |
| mainTemple | Sakya Monastery ⓘ |
| notableBranch |
Sakya Khön lineage
ⓘ
linked to:
Sakya school
|
| notableFor |
continuous hereditary transmission of Sakya leadership
ⓘ
preservation of Sakya teachings ⓘ |
| region |
Central Tibet
ⓘ
linked to:
central Tibet
Sakya (Shigatse Prefecture) ⓘ
linked to:
Sakya
|
| religion | Tibetan Buddhism ⓘ |
| religiousTradition |
Sakya tradition
ⓘ
linked to:
Sakya tradition of Tibetan Buddhism
|
| socialStatus | hereditary aristocracy in traditional Tibet ⓘ |
| spiritualLineage | Sakya Khön lineage of lamas ⓘ |
| titleHolder | Sakya throne holder ⓘ |
| traditionalOccupation |
nobility
ⓘ
religious leadership ⓘ |
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: Khön family Description of subject: The Khön family is a hereditary Tibetan noble lineage that has traditionally provided the principal leaders of the Sakya school of Tibetan Buddhism.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Khön family