Janaki Ammal
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Janaki Ammal was the young wife of Indian mathematical genius Srinivasa Ramanujan, remembered primarily for her brief marriage to him before his early death.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Janaki Ammal canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3410538 — 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: Janaki Ammal Context triple: [Srinivasa Ramanujan, spouse, Janaki Ammal]
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A.
Janaki Venkataraman
Janaki Venkataraman was an Indian social worker and the wife of former President of India R. Venkataraman, known for her involvement in charitable and welfare activities.
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B.
Kusumkumari Bose
Kusumkumari Bose was a Bengali poet and writer known for her contributions to early 20th-century Bengali literature.
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C.
Sunetra Sastry
Sunetra Sastry is a British makeup artist best known for her long-term marriage to comedian and actor Rowan Atkinson.
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D.
Lalitha Chandrasekhar
Lalitha Chandrasekhar was an Indian physicist and mathematician who collaborated closely with her husband, Nobel laureate Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, and contributed to research and education in astrophysics.
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E.
Shyamala Gopalan
Shyamala Gopalan was an Indian-born cancer researcher and civil rights activist best known as the mother of U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris.
- 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: Janaki Ammal Target entity description: Janaki Ammal was the young wife of Indian mathematical genius Srinivasa Ramanujan, remembered primarily for her brief marriage to him before his early death.
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A.
Janaki Venkataraman
Janaki Venkataraman was an Indian social worker and the wife of former President of India R. Venkataraman, known for her involvement in charitable and welfare activities.
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B.
Kusumkumari Bose
Kusumkumari Bose was a Bengali poet and writer known for her contributions to early 20th-century Bengali literature.
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C.
Sunetra Sastry
Sunetra Sastry is a British makeup artist best known for her long-term marriage to comedian and actor Rowan Atkinson.
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D.
Lalitha Chandrasekhar
Lalitha Chandrasekhar was an Indian physicist and mathematician who collaborated closely with her husband, Nobel laureate Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, and contributed to research and education in astrophysics.
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E.
Shyamala Gopalan
Shyamala Gopalan was an Indian-born cancer researcher and civil rights activist best known as the mother of U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Indian woman
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | India ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Tamil people ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
English
ⓘ
Tamil ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | widowed ⓘ |
| name | Janaki Ammal ⓘ |
| notableFor | marriage to Srinivasa Ramanujan ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | India ⓘ |
| religion | Hinduism ⓘ |
| residence |
Kumbakonam
ⓘ
Madras Presidency ⓘ |
| spouse |
Janaki Ammal
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Srinivasa Ramanujan ⓘ |
| spouseDateOfBirth | 1887-12-22 ⓘ |
| spouseDateOfDeath | 1920-04-26 ⓘ |
| spouseNationality | Indian ⓘ |
| spouseNotableWork |
Ramanujan tau function
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contributions to number theory ⓘ partition function research ⓘ |
| spouseOccupation | mathematician ⓘ |
| spousePlaceOfBirth | Erode ⓘ |
| spousePlaceOfDeath | Kumbakonam ⓘ |
| spouseRecognition | one of the greatest mathematicians in history ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 20th century ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Janaki Ammal Description of subject: Janaki Ammal was the young wife of Indian mathematical genius Srinivasa Ramanujan, remembered primarily for her brief marriage to him before his early death.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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