Palitana
E362216
Palitana is a major Jain pilgrimage city in Gujarat, India, renowned for its hilltop complex of hundreds of marble temples on Shatrunjaya Hill.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Palitana canonical | 11 |
| Jain Kashi | 1 |
| Palitana town | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3481514 — 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: Palitana Context triple: [Palitana temples, locatedIn, Palitana]
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A.
Pavapuri
Pavapuri is a revered Jain pilgrimage site in Bihar, India, best known as the place where Mahavira, the 24th Tirthankara, attained nirvana.
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B.
Mantralayam
Mantralayam is a prominent pilgrimage village in Andhra Pradesh, India, best known for the samadhi (brindavana) of the Hindu saint Raghavendra Swami.
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C.
Dahanapura
Dahanapura was the principal city and political center of the historical Kediri Kingdom in Java.
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D.
Banavasi
Banavasi is an ancient town in Karnataka, India, historically significant as an early capital of the Kadamba dynasty and a major center of early Kannada culture and inscriptions.
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E.
Velavadar
Velavadar is a village in Gujarat, India, known primarily as the gateway to the nearby Blackbuck National Park.
- 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: Palitana Target entity description: Palitana is a major Jain pilgrimage city in Gujarat, India, renowned for its hilltop complex of hundreds of marble temples on Shatrunjaya Hill.
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A.
Pavapuri
Pavapuri is a revered Jain pilgrimage site in Bihar, India, best known as the place where Mahavira, the 24th Tirthankara, attained nirvana.
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B.
Mantralayam
Mantralayam is a prominent pilgrimage village in Andhra Pradesh, India, best known for the samadhi (brindavana) of the Hindu saint Raghavendra Swami.
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C.
Dahanapura
Dahanapura was the principal city and political center of the historical Kediri Kingdom in Java.
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D.
Banavasi
Banavasi is an ancient town in Karnataka, India, historically significant as an early capital of the Kadamba dynasty and a major center of early Kannada culture and inscriptions.
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E.
Velavadar
Velavadar is a village in Gujarat, India, known primarily as the gateway to the nearby Blackbuck National Park.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
city
ⓘ
hill ⓘ pilgrimage site ⓘ temple complex ⓘ |
| climbToTemples | via steps up Shatrunjaya Hill ⓘ |
| constructedBy | various Jain communities ⓘ |
| constructionMaterial | marble ⓘ |
| country | India ⓘ |
| culturalSignificance | important center of Jain culture in Gujarat ⓘ |
| dietaryLaw | strictly vegetarian town in practice due to Jain influence ⓘ |
| district | Bhavnagar district ⓘ |
| elevationApprox | about 60 meters above sea level (town area) ⓘ |
| governingBodyType | municipality ⓘ |
| hasHeritage | sacred Jain pilgrimage site ⓘ |
| hasTransport |
bus services from major cities in Gujarat
ⓘ
road connectivity to Bhavnagar ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Jain temple complex
ⓘ
Shatrunjaya temple complex ⓘ hilltop Jain temples ⓘ marble temples ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Palitana
ⓘ
Saurashtra region ⓘ
linked to:
Saurashtra region of Gujarat
|
| locatedNear | Palitana ⓘ |
| locatedOn |
Shatrunjaya Hill
ⓘ
linked to:
Shatrunjaya hill
|
| mainDeity | Rishabhanatha ⓘ |
| mainHillName |
Shatrunjaya
ⓘ
linked to:
Shatrunjaya hill
|
| nearestMajorCity | Bhavnagar ⓘ |
| numberOfTemplesApprox |
hundreds
ⓘ
over 800 ⓘ |
| pilgrimageImportance |
major Jain tirtha
ⓘ
one of the holiest places for Jains ⓘ |
| primaryDeityAtHill | Rishabhanatha ⓘ |
| regionLanguage |
Gujarati
ⓘ
Hindi ⓘ |
| religiousTradition | Jainism ⓘ |
| state | Gujarat ⓘ |
| templeMaterial | marble ⓘ |
| timeZone | Indian Standard Time ⓘ |
| tourismType |
heritage tourism
ⓘ
religious tourism ⓘ |
| UTCOffset | +5:30 ⓘ |
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: Palitana Description of subject: Palitana is a major Jain pilgrimage city in Gujarat, India, renowned for its hilltop complex of hundreds of marble temples on Shatrunjaya Hill.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Palitana
subject linked to:
Shatrunjaya hill
subject linked to:
Shatrunjaya hill
linked to: Palitana
linked to: Palitana