Pandu
E108950
Pandu is a key figure in the Indian epic Mahabharata, the Kuru king and father of the Pandavas.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Pandu canonical | 63 |
| Pandu (in earlier period) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T902887 — 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: Pandu Context triple: [Arjuna, father, Pandu]
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A.
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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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.
Wikramawardhana
Wikramawardhana was a king of the Majapahit Empire in late 14th–early 15th century Java, known for ruling during the empire’s gradual decline and internal dynastic conflicts.
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D.
Airlangga
Airlangga was an influential 11th-century Javanese king who laid the foundations for powerful East Javanese kingdoms, including Kediri, through political consolidation and cultural patronage.
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E.
Rama
Rama is a major Hindu deity and the virtuous prince-king of Ayodhya, revered as the seventh avatar of Vishnu and hero of the epic Ramayana.
- 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: Pandu Target entity description: Pandu is a key figure in the Indian epic Mahabharata, the Kuru king and father of the Pandavas.
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A.
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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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.
Wikramawardhana
Wikramawardhana was a king of the Majapahit Empire in late 14th–early 15th century Java, known for ruling during the empire’s gradual decline and internal dynastic conflicts.
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D.
Airlangga
Airlangga was an influential 11th-century Javanese king who laid the foundations for powerful East Javanese kingdoms, including Kediri, through political consolidation and cultural patronage.
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E.
Rama
Rama is a major Hindu deity and the virtuous prince-king of Ayodhya, revered as the seventh avatar of Vishnu and hero of the epic Ramayana.
- 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: Pandu Description of subject: Pandu is a key figure in the Indian epic Mahabharata, the Kuru king and father of the Pandavas.
Referenced by (64)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Bhishma (in some traditions as co-disciple or associate)
linked to: Pandu
subject linked to:
Yudhishthira and Draupadi
subject linked to:
brought Nagamani from the Nagaloka to revive Arjuna