Jina
E249625
Jina is a revered spiritual title in Jainism denoting an enlightened victor who has conquered inner passions and attained omniscience.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jina canonical | 3 |
| first Jina | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2280890 — 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: Jina Context triple: [Mahavira, honorificTitle, Jina]
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A.
Yahi
The Yahi were a small Native American group from northern California, known for being among the last surviving independent Indigenous peoples in the region and for the story of Ishi, their last known member.
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B.
Kinana
Kinana is an ancient Arab tribal confederation regarded as one of the major ancestral tribes of the Quraysh and other prominent groups in the Arabian Peninsula.
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C.
Arapova
Arapova is a Russian-language surname historically borne by various individuals of Slavic origin.
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D.
Shira
Shira is the eroded western volcanic cone and plateau of Mount Kilimanjaro, forming one of the mountain’s three main summits.
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E.
Kirsha
Kirsha is a central character in Naguib Mahfouz’s novel "Midaq Alley," known as the café owner whose personal life and hidden desires reflect the social and moral tensions of mid-20th-century Cairo.
- 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: Jina Target entity description: Jina is a revered spiritual title in Jainism denoting an enlightened victor who has conquered inner passions and attained omniscience.
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A.
Yahi
The Yahi were a small Native American group from northern California, known for being among the last surviving independent Indigenous peoples in the region and for the story of Ishi, their last known member.
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B.
Kinana
Kinana is an ancient Arab tribal confederation regarded as one of the major ancestral tribes of the Quraysh and other prominent groups in the Arabian Peninsula.
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C.
Arapova
Arapova is a Russian-language surname historically borne by various individuals of Slavic origin.
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D.
Shira
Shira is the eroded western volcanic cone and plateau of Mount Kilimanjaro, forming one of the mountain’s three main summits.
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E.
Kirsha
Kirsha is a central character in Naguib Mahfouz’s novel "Midaq Alley," known as the café owner whose personal life and hidden desires reflect the social and moral tensions of mid-20th-century Cairo.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Jain religious title
ⓘ
religious concept ⓘ spiritual title ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
conquest of kashayas
ⓘ
kevala jnana ⓘ liberation from samsara ⓘ moksha ⓘ non-attachment ⓘ |
| contrastedWith | samsari beings ⓘ |
| cosmologicalStatus | resides in Siddhashila after liberation ⓘ |
| denotes |
enlightened being
ⓘ
omniscient being ⓘ one who has conquered inner passions ⓘ spiritual victor ⓘ |
| equivalentTitle |
Tirthankara
ⓘ
linked to:
Tirthankaras
|
| etymologyRoot | ji ⓘ |
| etymologyRootMeaning | to conquer ⓘ |
| firstJinaInCurrentTimeCycle | Rishabhanatha ⓘ |
| goalForFollowers | ideal state to be attained ⓘ |
| hasConquered |
attachment
ⓘ
aversion ⓘ deluding karma ⓘ inner passions ⓘ |
| languageOfTerm | Sanskrit ⓘ |
| lastJinaInCurrentTimeCycle | Mahavira ⓘ |
| meaning |
conqueror
ⓘ
victor ⓘ |
| numberOfPrincipalJinasInCurrentTimeCycle | 24 ⓘ |
| religion | Jainism ⓘ |
| roleInJainism |
founder of a tirtha
ⓘ
spiritual ideal ⓘ teacher of dharma ⓘ |
| scripturalSource |
Jain Agamas
ⓘ
Jain canonical literature ⓘ
linked to:
Jain literature
|
| spiritualStatus |
liberated soul
ⓘ
omniscient ⓘ passionless ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
perfect conduct
ⓘ
perfect knowledge ⓘ perfect perception ⓘ spiritual purity ⓘ victory over karma ⓘ |
| teaches | path to liberation ⓘ |
| veneratedBy | Jains ⓘ |
| widerUsage | sometimes used for any spiritually victorious person in Jain discourse ⓘ |
| worshipForm | image worship in temples ⓘ |
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: Jina Description of subject: Jina is a revered spiritual title in Jainism denoting an enlightened victor who has conquered inner passions and attained omniscience.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.