Beant Singh
E117831
Beant Singh was one of the Sikh bodyguards who assassinated Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in 1984.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Beant Singh canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T860344 — 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: Beant Singh Context triple: [Indira Gandhi, assassinatedBy, Beant Singh]
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A.
Satwant Singh
Satwant Singh was one of the Sikh bodyguards who assassinated Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in 1984, an event that triggered widespread anti-Sikh riots across India.
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B.
Sher Singh
Sher Singh was a 19th-century Maharaja of the Sikh Empire who briefly ruled Punjab during the turbulent period following Maharaja Ranjit Singh’s death.
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C.
Man Singh
Man Singh was an Indian noble and close associate of Nana Sahib who played a role in the events of the 1857 Indian Rebellion.
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D.
Budh Singh
Budh Singh was the birth name of Maharaja Ranjit Singh, the famed founder and ruler of the Sikh Empire in the early 19th century.
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E.
Jagat Singh
Jagat Singh was a brother of Indian revolutionary Bhagat Singh, belonging to the same politically active Sandhu Jat Sikh family from Punjab.
- 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: Beant Singh Target entity description: Beant Singh was one of the Sikh bodyguards who assassinated Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in 1984.
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A.
Satwant Singh
Satwant Singh was one of the Sikh bodyguards who assassinated Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in 1984, an event that triggered widespread anti-Sikh riots across India.
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B.
Sher Singh
Sher Singh was a 19th-century Maharaja of the Sikh Empire who briefly ruled Punjab during the turbulent period following Maharaja Ranjit Singh’s death.
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C.
Man Singh
Man Singh was an Indian noble and close associate of Nana Sahib who played a role in the events of the 1857 Indian Rebellion.
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D.
Budh Singh
Budh Singh was the birth name of Maharaja Ranjit Singh, the famed founder and ruler of the Sikh Empire in the early 19th century.
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E.
Jagat Singh
Jagat Singh was a brother of Indian revolutionary Bhagat Singh, belonging to the same politically active Sandhu Jat Sikh family from Punjab.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Sikh
ⓘ
assassin ⓘ person ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | gunshot wounds ⓘ |
| coConspirator |
Kehar Singh
ⓘ
Satwant Singh ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | India ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1984-10-31 ⓘ |
| dateOfEvent | 1984-10-31 ⓘ |
| employer |
Indian government
ⓘ
linked to:
Government of India
Indira Gandhi ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Sikh
ⓘ
linked to:
Sikh people
|
| eventLocation | Indira Gandhi's residence, New Delhi ⓘ |
| fullName | Beant Singh ⓘ |
| killedBy | Indian security personnel ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
Hindi
ⓘ
Punjabi ⓘ
linked to:
Punjabi language
|
| mannerOfDeath | shot ⓘ |
| motivatedBy | perceived injustice against Sikhs ⓘ |
| notableFor | assassination of Indira Gandhi ⓘ |
| occupation | police officer ⓘ |
| participantIn | assassination of Indira Gandhi ⓘ |
| perpetratorOf | assassination of Indira Gandhi ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
New Delhi
ⓘ
linked to:
New Delhi, India
|
| politicalContext | Operation Blue Star aftermath ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
bodyguard
ⓘ
security officer ⓘ |
| religion | Sikhism ⓘ |
| targetedPerson | Indira Gandhi ⓘ |
| victimOfCrime | extrajudicial killing ⓘ |
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: Beant Singh Description of subject: Beant Singh was one of the Sikh bodyguards who assassinated Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in 1984.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.