Ratnasiri Wickremanayake (as Prime Minister in 2000)
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Ratnasiri Wickremanayake was a Sri Lankan politician who served as Prime Minister in the early 2000s under President Chandrika Kumaratunga, representing the Sri Lanka Freedom Party.
All labels observed (1)
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| Ratnasiri Wickremanayake (as Prime Minister in 2000) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1763009 — 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: Ratnasiri Wickremanayake (as Prime Minister in 2000) Context triple: [Sirimavo Bandaranaike, succeededBy, Ratnasiri Wickremanayake (as Prime Minister in 2000)]
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A.
Sirimavo Bandaranaike
Sirimavo Bandaranaike was a Sri Lankan stateswoman who became the world’s first female prime minister and a long-serving leader of her country.
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B.
Prime Minister of Ceylon
The Prime Minister of Ceylon was the head of government of the former British Dominion of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), leading the executive branch before the country became a republic.
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C.
Dudley Senanayake
Dudley Senanayake was a prominent Sri Lankan statesman who served multiple terms as prime minister and played a key role in the country’s early post-independence politics.
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D.
W. Dahanayake
W. Dahanayake was a Sri Lankan politician who briefly served as Prime Minister of Ceylon in the late 1950s.
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E.
S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike
S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike was a prominent Sri Lankan statesman and founder of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party who served as prime minister in the 1950s and was assassinated while in office.
- 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: Ratnasiri Wickremanayake (as Prime Minister in 2000) Target entity description: Ratnasiri Wickremanayake was a Sri Lankan politician who served as Prime Minister in the early 2000s under President Chandrika Kumaratunga, representing the Sri Lanka Freedom Party.
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A.
Sirimavo Bandaranaike
Sirimavo Bandaranaike was a Sri Lankan stateswoman who became the world’s first female prime minister and a long-serving leader of her country.
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B.
Prime Minister of Ceylon
The Prime Minister of Ceylon was the head of government of the former British Dominion of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), leading the executive branch before the country became a republic.
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C.
Dudley Senanayake
Dudley Senanayake was a prominent Sri Lankan statesman who served multiple terms as prime minister and played a key role in the country’s early post-independence politics.
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D.
W. Dahanayake
W. Dahanayake was a Sri Lankan politician who briefly served as Prime Minister of Ceylon in the late 1950s.
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E.
S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike
S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike was a prominent Sri Lankan statesman and founder of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party who served as prime minister in the 1950s and was assassinated while in office.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
How these facts were elicited
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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: Ratnasiri Wickremanayake (as Prime Minister in 2000) Description of subject: Ratnasiri Wickremanayake was a Sri Lankan politician who served as Prime Minister in the early 2000s under President Chandrika Kumaratunga, representing the Sri Lanka Freedom Party.
Referenced by (1)
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