Shravika
E253368
Shravika is the term in Jainism for a female lay follower who observes religious vows and practices while living a household life.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Shravika canonical | 1 |
| Shravika (female lay follower) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2303271 — 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: Shravika Context triple: [Shravakas, femaleCounterpart, Shravika]
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A.
Shivini
Shivini is the Urartian sun god, often associated with light, justice, and royal authority in the ancient Kingdom of Urartu.
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B.
Chitrangada
Chitrangada is a warrior princess from the Indian epic Mahabharata, known as one of Arjuna’s wives and the daughter of the king of Manipur.
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C.
Kuhelika
Kuhelika is a Bengali novel by Kazi Nazrul Islam that explores themes of social injustice, revolution, and human relationships.
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D.
Madhavi
Madhavi is a celebrated courtesan and pivotal literary figure in ancient Tamil epic tradition, prominently featured in the Sangam-era works Silappatikaram and its sequel Manimekalai.
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E.
Sucharita
Sucharita is a central female character in Rabindranath Tagore’s Bengali novel "Gora," known for her introspective nature and evolving views on identity, religion, and social norms.
- 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: Shravika Target entity description: Shravika is the term in Jainism for a female lay follower who observes religious vows and practices while living a household life.
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A.
Shivini
Shivini is the Urartian sun god, often associated with light, justice, and royal authority in the ancient Kingdom of Urartu.
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B.
Chitrangada
Chitrangada is a warrior princess from the Indian epic Mahabharata, known as one of Arjuna’s wives and the daughter of the king of Manipur.
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C.
Kuhelika
Kuhelika is a Bengali novel by Kazi Nazrul Islam that explores themes of social injustice, revolution, and human relationships.
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D.
Madhavi
Madhavi is a celebrated courtesan and pivotal literary figure in ancient Tamil epic tradition, prominently featured in the Sangam-era works Silappatikaram and its sequel Manimekalai.
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E.
Sucharita
Sucharita is a central female character in Rabindranath Tagore’s Bengali novel "Gora," known for her introspective nature and evolving views on identity, religion, and social norms.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Jain layperson
ⓘ
female religious adherent ⓘ religious role ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Jain lay community ⓘ |
| correspondsToMaleTerm | Shravaka ⓘ |
| distinguishedFrom |
Jain monk
ⓘ
Jain nun ⓘ |
| engagesIn |
charity
ⓘ
fasting ⓘ scriptural study ⓘ worship of Tirthankaras ⓘ |
| etymologyRelatedTo | hearing the teachings ⓘ |
| follows | Jain vows ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| goal | spiritual progress ⓘ |
| languageOfTerm |
Prakrit
ⓘ
Sanskrit ⓘ |
| lifestyle | householder life ⓘ |
| moralFocus |
non-possessiveness
ⓘ
non-stealing ⓘ non-violence ⓘ sexual restraint ⓘ truthfulness ⓘ |
| observes |
ethical vows
ⓘ
religious practices ⓘ |
| partOf |
fourfold Jain sangha
ⓘ
linked to:
Jains
|
| religion | Jainism ⓘ |
| roleInCommunity | lay follower ⓘ |
| status | non-ordained follower ⓘ |
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: Shravika Description of subject: Shravika is the term in Jainism for a female lay follower who observes religious vows and practices while living a household life.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
aryika (nun)
linked to: Shravika