Kapila
E131865
Hindu philosopher
ancient Indian sage
founder of philosophical school
mythico-historical figure
rishi
sage in Hinduism
Kapila is an ancient Indian sage and philosopher traditionally regarded as the founder of the Samkhya school of Hindu philosophy.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kapila canonical | 5 |
| sage Kapila | 2 |
| Kapil Muni | 1 |
| Sage Kapila | 1 |
| sage Kapila (traditional attribution) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T933009 — 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: Kapila Context triple: [Samkhya, associatedWithPhilosopher, Kapila]
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A.
Bhartṛhari
Bhartṛhari was a 5th-century Indian philosopher and grammarian whose work on language, meaning, and the philosophy of grammar profoundly shaped later Indian thought.
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B.
Bharata Muni
Bharata Muni is the ancient Indian sage traditionally credited with authoring the Nāṭyaśāstra, the foundational treatise on Sanskrit dramaturgy, performance, and aesthetic theory.
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C.
Bhai Parmanand
Bhai Parmanand was an Indian nationalist, revolutionary, and Arya Samaj leader known for his role in the early anti-colonial movement against British rule.
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D.
Adi Shankaracharya
Adi Shankaracharya was an 8th-century Indian philosopher and theologian who consolidated the doctrine of Advaita Vedanta and played a key role in reviving Hinduism through his writings and monastic institutions.
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E.
Patañjali
Patañjali is an ancient Indian sage and scholar traditionally credited with authoring the Yoga Sūtras, a foundational text of classical yoga philosophy.
- 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: Kapila Target entity description: Kapila is an ancient Indian sage and philosopher traditionally regarded as the founder of the Samkhya school of Hindu philosophy.
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A.
Bhartṛhari
Bhartṛhari was a 5th-century Indian philosopher and grammarian whose work on language, meaning, and the philosophy of grammar profoundly shaped later Indian thought.
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B.
Bharata Muni
Bharata Muni is the ancient Indian sage traditionally credited with authoring the Nāṭyaśāstra, the foundational treatise on Sanskrit dramaturgy, performance, and aesthetic theory.
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C.
Bhai Parmanand
Bhai Parmanand was an Indian nationalist, revolutionary, and Arya Samaj leader known for his role in the early anti-colonial movement against British rule.
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D.
Adi Shankaracharya
Adi Shankaracharya was an 8th-century Indian philosopher and theologian who consolidated the doctrine of Advaita Vedanta and played a key role in reviving Hinduism through his writings and monastic institutions.
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E.
Patañjali
Patañjali is an ancient Indian sage and scholar traditionally credited with authoring the Yoga Sūtras, a foundational text of classical yoga philosophy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Hindu philosopher
ⓘ
ancient Indian sage ⓘ founder of philosophical school ⓘ mythico-historical figure ⓘ rishi ⓘ sage in Hinduism ⓘ |
| associatedConcept | three gunas (sattva, rajas, tamas) ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Samkhya
ⓘ
ancient Indian ascetic traditions ⓘ orthodox (astika) schools of Hindu philosophy ⓘ |
| category |
Hindu sages
ⓘ
Indian philosophers ⓘ Samkhya philosophers ⓘ |
| coreConcept |
liberation through discriminative knowledge
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prakriti (primordial matter) ⓘ purusha (conscious self) ⓘ satkaryavada (theory that effect pre-exists in cause) ⓘ |
| cosmology | enumeration of tattvas (principles of reality) ⓘ |
| culture | ancient Indian ⓘ |
| era | ancient India ⓘ |
| founderOf |
Samkhya school of Hindu philosophy
ⓘ
linked to:
Samkhya
|
| geographicContext |
Indian subcontinent
ⓘ
linked to:
South Asia
|
| influenced |
Vedanta debates on self and matter
ⓘ
Yoga school of Hindu philosophy ⓘ classical Samkhya texts ⓘ later Hindu theological interpretations of creation ⓘ |
| inReligiousContext | sometimes regarded as an incarnation of Vishnu in Vaishnava tradition ⓘ |
| languageContext | Sanskrit intellectual tradition ⓘ |
| mentionedIn |
Bhagavata Purana
ⓘ
Mahabharata ⓘ Puranic literature ⓘ
linked to:
Puranas
|
| notableFor |
dualistic metaphysics of purusha and prakriti
ⓘ
early systematic analysis of causation ⓘ influence on later Hindu philosophical traditions ⓘ |
| philosophicalDomain |
epistemology
ⓘ
metaphysics ⓘ soteriology ⓘ |
| philosophicalSchool | Samkhya ⓘ |
| philosophicalStance | non-theistic interpretation of Samkhya in some traditions ⓘ |
| religion | Hinduism ⓘ |
| roleInTexts | teacher of metaphysical knowledge ⓘ |
| roleInTradition | exemplar of discriminative knowledge (viveka) ⓘ |
| traditionallyRegardedAs | founder of the Samkhya system ⓘ |
| traditionStatus | semi-legendary figure ⓘ |
| viewOnLiberation | attained by discriminating purusha from prakriti ⓘ |
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: Kapila Description of subject: Kapila is an ancient Indian sage and philosopher traditionally regarded as the founder of the Samkhya school of Hindu philosophy.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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