Śuddhodana
E277446
Śuddhodana was a king of the Shakya clan in ancient India and the historical Buddha Siddhartha Gautama’s father.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Śuddhodana canonical | 4 |
| King Suddhodana | 2 |
| King Śuddhodana | 1 |
| Suddhodana | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2563157 — 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: Śuddhodana Context triple: [Shakyamuni Buddha, father, Śuddhodana]
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A.
King Janaka
King Janaka is a revered philosopher-king in ancient Indian tradition, best known as the wise ruler of Videha and the father of Sita in the Ramayana.
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B.
Yashoda
Yashoda was the wife of Mahavira, the 24th Tirthankara of Jainism, and is traditionally regarded as his consort before he renounced worldly life.
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C.
Yashoda
Yashoda is the loving foster mother of the Hindu deity Krishna, revered for her deep maternal devotion and prominent role in his childhood stories.
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D.
Gautama
Gautama is an ancient Indian sage and philosopher traditionally credited with founding the Nyaya school of Hindu logic and epistemology.
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E.
Kunti
Kunti is a prominent queen and matriarch in the Indian epic Mahabharata, best known as the mother of the Pandava princes.
- 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: Śuddhodana Target entity description: Śuddhodana was a king of the Shakya clan in ancient India and the historical Buddha Siddhartha Gautama’s father.
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A.
King Janaka
King Janaka is a revered philosopher-king in ancient Indian tradition, best known as the wise ruler of Videha and the father of Sita in the Ramayana.
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B.
Yashoda
Yashoda was the wife of Mahavira, the 24th Tirthankara of Jainism, and is traditionally regarded as his consort before he renounced worldly life.
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C.
Yashoda
Yashoda is the loving foster mother of the Hindu deity Krishna, revered for her deep maternal devotion and prominent role in his childhood stories.
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D.
Gautama
Gautama is an ancient Indian sage and philosopher traditionally credited with founding the Nyaya school of Hindu logic and epistemology.
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E.
Kunti
Kunti is a prominent queen and matriarch in the Indian epic Mahabharata, best known as the mother of the Pandava princes.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Shakya clan leader
ⓘ
historical figure ⓘ king ⓘ |
| alternativeName |
Suddhodana
ⓘ
linked to:
Śuddhodana
|
| associatedWith |
Kapilavastu
ⓘ
Shakya kingdom ⓘ
linked to:
Shakya republic
Siddhartha Gautama ⓘ
linked to:
Shakyamuni Buddha
|
| child |
Nanda
ⓘ
Siddhartha Gautama ⓘ
linked to:
Shakyamuni Buddha
|
| clan | Shakya ⓘ |
| country | ancient India ⓘ |
| culture | ancient Indian ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Kapilavastu ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Shakya ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| knownFor | being the father of the historical Buddha ⓘ |
| knownFrom | Buddhist texts ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Sanskrit ⓘ |
| meaningOfName | one who has pure rice or pure food ⓘ |
| name | Śuddhodana ⓘ |
| notableRole |
father of Siddhartha Gautama
ⓘ
patriarch of the Shakya clan ⓘ |
| positionHeld | king of the Shakya clan ⓘ |
| region | foothills of the Himalayas ⓘ |
| religion | early Indian religious traditions ⓘ |
| residence | Kapilavastu ⓘ |
| spouse |
Mahapajapati Gotami
ⓘ
linked to:
Mahāpajāpatī Gotamī
Maya ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 6th century BCE ⓘ |
| tradition | Buddhism ⓘ |
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: Śuddhodana Description of subject: Śuddhodana was a king of the Shakya clan in ancient India and the historical Buddha Siddhartha Gautama’s father.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Śuddhodana
linked to: Śuddhodana
linked to: Śuddhodana
linked to: Śuddhodana