Kingdom of Raigama
E396937
The Kingdom of Raigama was a short-lived medieval Sinhalese polity in southwestern Sri Lanka that emerged from the fragmentation of earlier Sri Lankan kingdoms and preceded the rise of the more powerful Kingdom of Kotte.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Kingdom of Raigama canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3912264 — 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: Kingdom of Raigama Context triple: [Kingdom of Kotte, predecessor, Kingdom of Raigama]
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A.
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.
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B.
Kingdom of Nobadia
The Kingdom of Nobadia was an early medieval Nubian Christian kingdom in Lower Nubia, centered along the Nile in what is now southern Egypt and northern Sudan.
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C.
Kingdom of Corona
The Kingdom of Corona is the fictional, picturesque realm in Disney's animated film "Tangled," known as the home of Rapunzel and its iconic lantern festival.
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D.
Mewar Kingdom
The Mewar Kingdom was a historic Rajput kingdom in present-day Rajasthan, India, renowned for its fierce resistance to Mughal rule and its capital at Udaipur.
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E.
Kingdom of Kashi
The Kingdom of Kashi was a historic North Indian realm centered on the ancient and sacred city of Varanasi (Kashi), a major cultural and religious hub in Hindu tradition.
- 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: Kingdom of Raigama Target entity description: The Kingdom of Raigama was a short-lived medieval Sinhalese polity in southwestern Sri Lanka that emerged from the fragmentation of earlier Sri Lankan kingdoms and preceded the rise of the more powerful Kingdom of Kotte.
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A.
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.
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B.
Kingdom of Nobadia
The Kingdom of Nobadia was an early medieval Nubian Christian kingdom in Lower Nubia, centered along the Nile in what is now southern Egypt and northern Sudan.
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C.
Kingdom of Corona
The Kingdom of Corona is the fictional, picturesque realm in Disney's animated film "Tangled," known as the home of Rapunzel and its iconic lantern festival.
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D.
Mewar Kingdom
The Mewar Kingdom was a historic Rajput kingdom in present-day Rajasthan, India, renowned for its fierce resistance to Mughal rule and its capital at Udaipur.
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E.
Kingdom of Kashi
The Kingdom of Kashi was a historic North Indian realm centered on the ancient and sacred city of Varanasi (Kashi), a major cultural and religious hub in Hindu tradition.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Sinhalese polity
ⓘ
historical kingdom ⓘ medieval state ⓘ |
| capital | Raigama ⓘ |
| continent | Asia ⓘ |
| country | Sri Lanka ⓘ |
| culture | Sinhalese Buddhist culture ⓘ |
| emergedFrom | fragmentation of earlier Sri Lankan kingdoms ⓘ |
| era | Middle Ages ⓘ |
| ethnicCharacter | Sinhalese ⓘ |
| governmentType | monarchy ⓘ |
| hasPopulationMajority | Sinhalese people ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | medieval Sri Lanka ⓘ |
| language | Sinhalese ⓘ |
| locatedIn | southwestern Sri Lanka ⓘ |
| locatedInPresentDay |
Southern Province of Sri Lanka
ⓘ
linked to:
Southern Province, Sri Lanka
Western Province of Sri Lanka ⓘ
linked to:
Western Province, Sri Lanka
|
| locatedOn | island of Sri Lanka ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Raigama region ⓘ |
| partOf | Sri Lankan historical polities ⓘ |
| politicalStructure | feudal monarchy ⓘ |
| predecessor |
Kingdom of Dambadeniya
ⓘ
Kingdom of Gampola ⓘ earlier Sri Lankan kingdoms ⓘ |
| region | South Asia ⓘ |
| religion | Buddhism ⓘ |
| religiousTradition |
Theravada Buddhism
ⓘ
linked to:
Theravada
|
| roleInHistory | predecessor to the Kingdom of Kotte ⓘ |
| status | short-lived kingdom ⓘ |
| successor | Kingdom of Kotte ⓘ |
| usedScript | Sinhala script ⓘ |
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: Kingdom of Raigama Description of subject: The Kingdom of Raigama was a short-lived medieval Sinhalese polity in southwestern Sri Lanka that emerged from the fragmentation of earlier Sri Lankan kingdoms and preceded the rise of the more powerful Kingdom of Kotte.
Referenced by (1)
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