Rāhula
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Rāhula is the son of Shakyamuni Buddha who later became a Buddhist monk and is traditionally regarded as an exemplar of discipline and spiritual training.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Rāhula canonical | 7 |
| Rahula | 1 |
| Rahula (in some Buddhist traditions) | 1 |
| Venerable Rāhula | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2563161 — 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: Rāhula Context triple: [Shakyamuni Buddha, child, Rāhula]
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A.
Kumara
Kumara is another name for Kartikeya, the Hindu god of war and the son of Shiva and Parvati, widely revered in South India and Sri Lanka.
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B.
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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C.
Sanjaya
Sanjaya is the charioteer and seer in the Mahabharata who, granted divine vision, narrates the events of the Kurukshetra war to the blind king Dhritarashtra.
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D.
Sanjaya
Sanjaya was an early Javanese king traditionally regarded as the founder of the Mataram (Medang) Kingdom and the Sanjaya dynasty in Central Java.
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E.
Somānanda
Somānanda was an early Kashmiri Śaiva philosopher and theologian whose non-dual Trika teachings helped lay the foundations for later thinkers like Abhinavagupta.
- 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: Rāhula Target entity description: Rāhula is the son of Shakyamuni Buddha who later became a Buddhist monk and is traditionally regarded as an exemplar of discipline and spiritual training.
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A.
Kumara
Kumara is another name for Kartikeya, the Hindu god of war and the son of Shiva and Parvati, widely revered in South India and Sri Lanka.
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B.
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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C.
Sanjaya
Sanjaya is the charioteer and seer in the Mahabharata who, granted divine vision, narrates the events of the Kurukshetra war to the blind king Dhritarashtra.
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D.
Sanjaya
Sanjaya was an early Javanese king traditionally regarded as the founder of the Mataram (Medang) Kingdom and the Sanjaya dynasty in Central Java.
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E.
Somānanda
Somānanda was an early Kashmiri Śaiva philosopher and theologian whose non-dual Trika teachings helped lay the foundations for later thinkers like Abhinavagupta.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Buddhist monk
ⓘ
disciple of Gautama Buddha ⓘ historical religious figure ⓘ |
| associatedText |
Ambalaṭṭhika Rāhulovāda Sutta
ⓘ
linked to:
Rāhulovāda Sutta
Rāhulovāda Sutta ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Śākya clan
ⓘ
linked to:
Shakya clan
Śākyamuni Buddha ⓘ
linked to:
Shakyamuni Buddha
|
| birthPlace | Kapilavastu ⓘ |
| canonicalStatus | disciple praised by the Buddha for discipline ⓘ |
| childOf |
Gautama Buddha
ⓘ
linked to:
Shakyamuni Buddha
Yasodharā ⓘ
linked to:
Yaśodharā
|
| culture | ancient Indian ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Śākya ⓘ |
| familyRelation | cousin of many early Buddhist monks from the Śākya clan ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| honorificTitle |
Venerable Rāhula
ⓘ
linked to:
Rāhula
|
| iconography | often depicted as a young monk near the Buddha ⓘ |
| knownFor |
early ordination as a novice monk
ⓘ
exemplary monastic discipline ⓘ spiritual training ⓘ |
| languageContext |
Pāli Canon
ⓘ
linked to:
Tripitaka
Sanskrit Buddhist literature ⓘ |
| lifeEvent |
later fully ordained as a bhikkhu
ⓘ
ordained as a novice at a young age ⓘ |
| mentionedIn |
Mahāyāna sūtras
ⓘ
linked to:
Mahayana sutras
Sutta Piṭaka ⓘ
linked to:
Sutta Pitaka
Vinaya Piṭaka ⓘ
linked to:
Vinaya Pitaka
|
| position |
bhikkhu
ⓘ
novice monk ⓘ |
| region | ancient northern India ⓘ |
| religion | Buddhism ⓘ |
| roleInTradition |
ideal novice in Theravāda tradition
ⓘ
model of obedience to the Buddha ⓘ model of strict observance of monastic rules ⓘ |
| teacher |
Gautama Buddha
ⓘ
linked to:
Shakyamuni Buddha
Sāriputta ⓘ
linked to:
Śāriputra
|
| timePeriod | 6th–5th century BCE (traditional dating) ⓘ |
| tradition |
Mahāyāna
ⓘ
linked to:
Mahayana
Theravāda ⓘ
linked to:
Theravada
early Buddhism ⓘ |
| veneratedIn |
Mahāyāna Buddhism
ⓘ
linked to:
Mahayana
Theravāda Buddhism ⓘ
linked to:
Theravada
Vajrayāna Buddhism ⓘ
linked to:
Vajrayana
|
| virtue |
discipline
ⓘ
mindfulness ⓘ truthfulness ⓘ |
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: Rāhula Description of subject: Rāhula is the son of Shakyamuni Buddha who later became a Buddhist monk and is traditionally regarded as an exemplar of discipline and spiritual training.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Rāhula
linked to: Rāhula
linked to: Rāhula