Vibhishana
E112941
Vibhishana is a virtuous rakshasa prince in the Hindu epic Ramayana, known for abandoning his brother Ravana to ally with Rama and uphold dharma.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Vibhishana canonical | 31 |
| Bibhishana | 1 |
| Lakshmana | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T902476 — 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: Vibhishana Context triple: [Ramayana, mainCharacter, Vibhishana]
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A.
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.
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B.
Ravana
Ravana is the ten-headed demon king of Lanka in Hindu mythology, best known as the powerful antagonist of the epic Ramayana.
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C.
Lakshmana
Lakshmana is a devoted younger brother of Rama in the Hindu epic Ramayana, renowned for his unwavering loyalty, courage, and selfless service.
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D.
Hanuman
Hanuman is a revered Hindu deity known for his immense strength, unwavering devotion to Lord Rama, and central role in the epic Ramayana.
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E.
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.
- 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: Vibhishana Target entity description: Vibhishana is a virtuous rakshasa prince in the Hindu epic Ramayana, known for abandoning his brother Ravana to ally with Rama and uphold dharma.
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A.
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.
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B.
Ravana
Ravana is the ten-headed demon king of Lanka in Hindu mythology, best known as the powerful antagonist of the epic Ramayana.
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C.
Lakshmana
Lakshmana is a devoted younger brother of Rama in the Hindu epic Ramayana, renowned for his unwavering loyalty, courage, and selfless service.
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D.
Hanuman
Hanuman is a revered Hindu deity known for his immense strength, unwavering devotion to Lord Rama, and central role in the epic Ramayana.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Character in the Ramayana
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Mythological figure ⓘ Rakshasa prince ⓘ |
| adviceContent | Return Sita to Rama and make peace ⓘ |
| advised | Ravana ⓘ |
| alliedWith | Rama ⓘ |
| alsoMentionedIn | Ramcharitmanas ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Ramayana ⓘ |
| appointedBy | Rama ⓘ |
| associatedEpic | Itihasa ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Bhakti
ⓘ
linked to:
Bhakti movement
Dharma ⓘ |
| culture | Ancient Indian ⓘ |
| devoteeOf | Rama ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Rakshasa ⓘ |
| genre | Epic literature ⓘ |
| grantedRefugeBy | Rama ⓘ |
| helpedKill | Indrajit ⓘ |
| home | Lanka ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Advising Ravana to return Sita
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Defecting from Ravana to Rama ⓘ Upholding dharma ⓘ Virtuous nature ⓘ |
| languageOfSources | Sanskrit ⓘ |
| moralAlignment | Righteous ⓘ |
| opposedTo | Ravana ⓘ |
| parent |
Kaikesi
ⓘ
Vishrava ⓘ |
| predecessor | Ravana ⓘ |
| primarySourceText |
Valmiki Ramayana
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linked to:
Ramayana
|
| rejectedBy | Ravana ⓘ |
| religion | Hinduism ⓘ |
| revealedSecretOf | Ravana ⓘ |
| revealedWeaknessOf | Indrajit ⓘ |
| roleInWar |
Advisor to Rama in the Lanka war
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Provider of strategic counsel against Ravana ⓘ |
| siblingOf |
Kumbhakarna
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Ravana ⓘ Shurpanakha ⓘ |
| soughtRefugeWith | Rama ⓘ |
| spouse | Sarama ⓘ |
| symbolism |
Ideal of righteous counsel
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Primacy of dharma over family ties ⓘ |
| title | King of Lanka ⓘ |
| virtue |
Loyalty to righteousness over kinship
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Non-cruelty ⓘ Truthfulness ⓘ |
| worshippedAs | Guardian deity of Sri Lanka ⓘ |
| worshippedIn | Sri Lanka ⓘ |
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: Vibhishana Description of subject: Vibhishana is a virtuous rakshasa prince in the Hindu epic Ramayana, known for abandoning his brother Ravana to ally with Rama and uphold dharma.
Referenced by (33)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Vibhishana
subject linked to:
chariot Pushpaka Vimana
subject linked to:
battle of Lanka
subject linked to:
Pulastya lineage
linked to: Vibhishana