Kushinagar
E277445
Kushinagar is an important Buddhist pilgrimage town in India, revered as the place where the Buddha attained parinirvana (final nirvana).
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Kushinagar canonical | 25 |
| Buddha’s Parinirvana site in Kushinagar | 1 |
| Buddha’s parinirvana at Kushinagar | 1 |
| Kushinagar town | 1 |
| Kushinagar, Uttar Pradesh, India | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2563153 — 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: Kushinagar Context triple: [Shakyamuni Buddha, deathPlace, Kushinagar]
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Sarnath
Sarnath is an important Buddhist pilgrimage site near Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh, India, where Gautama Buddha is believed to have delivered his first sermon after attaining enlightenment.
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Dharmakshetra
Dharmakshetra is the sacred battlefield of Kurukshetra in the Indian epic Mahabharata, revered as a holy site where the Bhagavad Gita was spoken.
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Bodh Gaya
Bodh Gaya is a major Buddhist pilgrimage town in Bihar, India, revered as the place where Siddhartha Gautama attained enlightenment and became the Buddha.
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D.
Betapur
Betapur is a small settlement located on Middle Andaman Island in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands of India.
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Nivruttinath Samadhi
Nivruttinath Samadhi is a revered memorial shrine and pilgrimage site dedicated to the Nath saint Nivruttinath, located in Trimbakeshwar, Maharashtra.
- 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: Kushinagar Target entity description: Kushinagar is an important Buddhist pilgrimage town in India, revered as the place where the Buddha attained parinirvana (final nirvana).
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A.
Sarnath
Sarnath is an important Buddhist pilgrimage site near Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh, India, where Gautama Buddha is believed to have delivered his first sermon after attaining enlightenment.
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B.
Dharmakshetra
Dharmakshetra is the sacred battlefield of Kurukshetra in the Indian epic Mahabharata, revered as a holy site where the Bhagavad Gita was spoken.
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C.
Bodh Gaya
Bodh Gaya is a major Buddhist pilgrimage town in Bihar, India, revered as the place where Siddhartha Gautama attained enlightenment and became the Buddha.
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D.
Betapur
Betapur is a small settlement located on Middle Andaman Island in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands of India.
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E.
Nivruttinath Samadhi
Nivruttinath Samadhi is a revered memorial shrine and pilgrimage site dedicated to the Nath saint Nivruttinath, located in Trimbakeshwar, Maharashtra.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Kushinagar Description of subject: Kushinagar is an important Buddhist pilgrimage town in India, revered as the place where the Buddha attained parinirvana (final nirvana).
Referenced by (29)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Deer Park
linked to: Kushinagar
linked to: Kushinagar
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Japanese Peace Pagoda
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Burmese Buddhist Temple
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Tibetan Buddhist Temple
linked to: Kushinagar
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Chinese Buddhist Temple
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Korean Buddhist Temple
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reclining Buddha statue
linked to: Kushinagar