Brihadratha Maurya
E149077
Brihadratha Maurya was the last ruler of the Maurya Empire in ancient India, whose assassination led to the rise of the Shunga dynasty.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Brihadratha Maurya canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1223252 — 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: Brihadratha Maurya Context triple: [Maurya Empire, notableRuler, Brihadratha Maurya]
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A.
Bindusara
Bindusara was the second emperor of the Maurya dynasty in ancient India, known for consolidating and expanding the vast empire established by his father Chandragupta Maurya.
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B.
Dasharatha Maurya
Dasharatha Maurya was a Mauryan emperor who succeeded Ashoka and ruled a gradually declining empire in the late 3rd century BCE.
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C.
Ashoka
Ashoka was a 3rd-century BCE Mauryan emperor of India renowned for his vast empire, conversion to Buddhism, and promotion of nonviolence and moral governance.
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D.
Rajasuya
Rajasuya is an ancient Vedic royal consecration ritual performed to legitimize and exalt a king’s sovereignty and supreme status.
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E.
Chandragupta Maurya
Chandragupta Maurya was the founder of one of ancient India’s largest and most powerful empires, ruling from Pataliputra and laying the foundations for the Mauryan dynasty’s political and administrative systems.
- 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: Brihadratha Maurya Target entity description: Brihadratha Maurya was the last ruler of the Maurya Empire in ancient India, whose assassination led to the rise of the Shunga dynasty.
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A.
Bindusara
Bindusara was the second emperor of the Maurya dynasty in ancient India, known for consolidating and expanding the vast empire established by his father Chandragupta Maurya.
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B.
Dasharatha Maurya
Dasharatha Maurya was a Mauryan emperor who succeeded Ashoka and ruled a gradually declining empire in the late 3rd century BCE.
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C.
Ashoka
Ashoka was a 3rd-century BCE Mauryan emperor of India renowned for his vast empire, conversion to Buddhism, and promotion of nonviolence and moral governance.
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D.
Rajasuya
Rajasuya is an ancient Vedic royal consecration ritual performed to legitimize and exalt a king’s sovereignty and supreme status.
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E.
Chandragupta Maurya
Chandragupta Maurya was the founder of one of ancient India’s largest and most powerful empires, ruling from Pataliputra and laying the foundations for the Mauryan dynasty’s political and administrative systems.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Indian monarch
ⓘ
Mauryan emperor ⓘ historical figure ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Shunga dynasty ⓘ |
| country | Maurya Empire ⓘ |
| deathCause | assassination ⓘ |
| deathDate | c. 185 BCE ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Pataliputra ⓘ |
| dynasty |
Maurya dynasty
ⓘ
linked to:
Maurya Empire
|
| era | Ancient India ⓘ |
| governmentTypeDuringReign | monarchy ⓘ |
| historicalSource |
Puranic texts
ⓘ
later Buddhist and Brahmanical traditions ⓘ |
| killedBy | Pushyamitra Shunga ⓘ |
| lastRulerOf | Maurya Empire ⓘ |
| notableEvent | assassinated during a military review ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the last Mauryan emperor
ⓘ
his assassination leading to the rise of the Shunga dynasty ⓘ |
| parentDynasty |
Maurya dynasty
ⓘ
linked to:
Maurya Empire
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| placeOfRule | Pataliputra ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Emperor of the Maurya Empire ⓘ |
| predecessor | Shalishuka Maurya ⓘ |
| reign | c. 187–185 BCE ⓘ |
| religion | Hinduism ⓘ |
| successor | Pushyamitra Shunga ⓘ |
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: Brihadratha Maurya Description of subject: Brihadratha Maurya was the last ruler of the Maurya Empire in ancient India, whose assassination led to the rise of the Shunga dynasty.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.