Thaton Kingdom
E277480
Thaton Kingdom was an ancient Mon kingdom in Lower Burma known as a major center of Theravada Buddhism and maritime trade in Southeast Asia.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Thaton Kingdom canonical | 7 |
| Mon kingdom | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2525933 — 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: Thaton Kingdom Context triple: [Mon, notableKingdom, Thaton Kingdom]
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A.
Butua Kingdom
The Butua Kingdom was a precolonial Shona state in southwestern Zimbabwe, known for its control of regional gold trade and continuation of the cultural and political traditions of Great Zimbabwe.
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B.
Dimasa Kingdom
The Dimasa Kingdom was a historical polity in northeastern India ruled by the Dimasa people, known for its influence over parts of present-day Assam and surrounding regions.
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C.
Ava Kingdom
Ava Kingdom was a major Burmese monarchy that dominated much of Upper Burma from the 14th to 16th centuries, serving as a key political and cultural center in precolonial Myanmar.
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D.
Gauda Kingdom
The Gauda Kingdom was an early medieval polity in the Bengal region of the Indian subcontinent that laid the groundwork for later regional powers such as the Pala Empire.
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E.
Kingdom of Alodia
The Kingdom of Alodia was a medieval Christian Nubian state centered in what is now central and southern Sudan, known for its distinctive culture, long-distance trade, and use of the Old Nubian language and script.
- 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: Thaton Kingdom Target entity description: Thaton Kingdom was an ancient Mon kingdom in Lower Burma known as a major center of Theravada Buddhism and maritime trade in Southeast Asia.
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A.
Butua Kingdom
The Butua Kingdom was a precolonial Shona state in southwestern Zimbabwe, known for its control of regional gold trade and continuation of the cultural and political traditions of Great Zimbabwe.
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B.
Dimasa Kingdom
The Dimasa Kingdom was a historical polity in northeastern India ruled by the Dimasa people, known for its influence over parts of present-day Assam and surrounding regions.
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C.
Ava Kingdom
Ava Kingdom was a major Burmese monarchy that dominated much of Upper Burma from the 14th to 16th centuries, serving as a key political and cultural center in precolonial Myanmar.
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D.
Gauda Kingdom
The Gauda Kingdom was an early medieval polity in the Bengal region of the Indian subcontinent that laid the groundwork for later regional powers such as the Pala Empire.
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E.
Kingdom of Alodia
The Kingdom of Alodia was a medieval Christian Nubian state centered in what is now central and southern Sudan, known for its distinctive culture, long-distance trade, and use of the Old Nubian language and script.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Buddhist kingdom
ⓘ
Mon kingdom ⓘ historical kingdom ⓘ |
| broughtBuddhistTextsTo | Pagan ⓘ |
| broughtMonScholarsTo | Pagan ⓘ |
| capital | Thaton ⓘ |
| conqueredBy |
Anawrahta of Pagan
ⓘ
linked to:
Anawrahta
Pagan Kingdom ⓘ |
| conquestYearApprox | 1057 ⓘ |
| culturalInfluenceOn | Pagan Kingdom ⓘ |
| culturalRegion | Suvarnabhumi (traditional identification) ⓘ |
| economicRole | maritime trading hub ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Mon people ⓘ |
| flourishedInCentury |
10th century
ⓘ
11th century ⓘ |
| followedBy | Pagan Empire control of Lower Burma ⓘ |
| hasCity | Thaton ⓘ |
| hasHeritageSite | Thaton archaeological remains ⓘ |
| hasLanguage | Mon language ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
South Indian trade cultures
ⓘ
Sri Lankan Theravada Buddhism ⓘ
linked to:
Buddhism in Sri Lanka
|
| knownFor |
Mon culture
ⓘ
Theravada Buddhist scholarship ⓘ contacts with Sri Lanka ⓘ maritime trade ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Lower Burma
ⓘ
linked to:
southern Myanmar
Myanmar ⓘ Southeast Asia ⓘ |
| modernCountryTerritory | Myanmar ⓘ |
| partOf | Mon kingdoms of Southeast Asia ⓘ |
| politicalSystem | monarchy ⓘ |
| portCity | Thaton ⓘ |
| precededBy | earlier Mon polities in Lower Burma ⓘ |
| region |
Gulf of Martaban
ⓘ
Tenasserim coast ⓘ
linked to:
Tenasserim
|
| religion |
Theravada Buddhism
ⓘ
linked to:
Theravada
|
| religiousCanon |
Pali Canon
ⓘ
linked to:
Tripitaka
|
| religiousInstitution | Buddhist monasteries ⓘ |
| religiousRole | center of Theravada Buddhism ⓘ |
| religiousTradition | Theravada ⓘ |
| seaAccess | Andaman Sea ⓘ |
| timePeriod |
early second millennium CE
ⓘ
late first millennium CE ⓘ |
| tradePartner |
Bay of Bengal ports
ⓘ
linked to:
Paradip Port
South India ⓘ Sri Lanka ⓘ |
| tradeRoute |
Indian Ocean maritime trade network
ⓘ
linked to:
Indian Ocean trade network
|
| usedScript | Mon script ⓘ |
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: Thaton Kingdom Description of subject: Thaton Kingdom was an ancient Mon kingdom in Lower Burma known as a major center of Theravada Buddhism and maritime trade in Southeast Asia.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Thaton Kingdom
linked to: Thaton Kingdom
linked to: Thaton Kingdom