Kuru dynasty
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The Kuru dynasty is an ancient royal lineage of northern India, traditionally regarded as the central ruling house in the epic narrative of the Mahabharata.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Kuru dynasty canonical | 76 |
| Kuru dynasty (through Janamejaya) | 1 |
| Kuru kings | 1 |
| KuruDynasty | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T873963 — 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: Kuru dynasty Context triple: [Mahabharata, settingDynasty, Kuru dynasty]
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Atreid dynasty
The Atreid dynasty is the legendary royal house of Mycenaean Greece, best known from Greek mythology for figures like Agamemnon and Menelaus and the tragic cycle of the House of Atreus.
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Billung dynasty
The Billung dynasty was a powerful medieval German noble family that rose to prominence in northern Germany, particularly in Saxony, during the 10th and 11th centuries.
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Sena dynasty
The Sena dynasty was a medieval Hindu ruling family that established a powerful kingdom in Bengal, known for promoting Brahmanical culture, Sanskrit scholarship, and temple construction before the Muslim conquests in eastern India.
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Salian dynasty
The Salian dynasty was a medieval German royal house that produced a line of Holy Roman Emperors who ruled much of Central Europe in the 11th and early 12th centuries.
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Sailendra dynasty
The Sailendra dynasty was a powerful Buddhist ruling family that dominated much of maritime Southeast Asia, particularly Java and Sumatra, during the 8th–9th centuries and is renowned for monumental architecture such as Borobudur.
- 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: Kuru dynasty Target entity description: The Kuru dynasty is an ancient royal lineage of northern India, traditionally regarded as the central ruling house in the epic narrative of the Mahabharata.
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A.
Atreid dynasty
The Atreid dynasty is the legendary royal house of Mycenaean Greece, best known from Greek mythology for figures like Agamemnon and Menelaus and the tragic cycle of the House of Atreus.
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B.
Billung dynasty
The Billung dynasty was a powerful medieval German noble family that rose to prominence in northern Germany, particularly in Saxony, during the 10th and 11th centuries.
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C.
Sena dynasty
The Sena dynasty was a medieval Hindu ruling family that established a powerful kingdom in Bengal, known for promoting Brahmanical culture, Sanskrit scholarship, and temple construction before the Muslim conquests in eastern India.
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D.
Salian dynasty
The Salian dynasty was a medieval German royal house that produced a line of Holy Roman Emperors who ruled much of Central Europe in the 11th and early 12th centuries.
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E.
Sailendra dynasty
The Sailendra dynasty was a powerful Buddhist ruling family that dominated much of maritime Southeast Asia, particularly Java and Sumatra, during the 8th–9th centuries and is renowned for monumental architecture such as Borobudur.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Kuru dynasty Description of subject: The Kuru dynasty is an ancient royal lineage of northern India, traditionally regarded as the central ruling house in the epic narrative of the Mahabharata.
Referenced by (79)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Kuru dynasty
linked to: Kuru dynasty
linked to: Kuru dynasty
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Sanjaya and Dhritarashtra