Bhuvanekabahu VII
E405675
Bhuvanekabahu VII was a 16th-century king of the Kingdom of Kotte in Sri Lanka, known for his reign during a period of increasing Portuguese influence on the island.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bhuvanekabahu VII canonical | 1 |
| Bhuvanekabahu the Seventh | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3912273 — 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: Bhuvanekabahu VII Context triple: [Kingdom of Kotte, notableRuler, Bhuvanekabahu VII]
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A.
Parakramabahu VI
Parakramabahu VI was a 15th-century Sri Lankan monarch renowned for unifying much of the island and presiding over a flourishing period of literature and trade.
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B.
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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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.
Vijaya
Vijaya was the principal royal and political center of the historical Champa kingdom in what is now central Vietnam.
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E.
Kertarajasa Jayawardhana
Kertarajasa Jayawardhana was the regnal name of Raden Wijaya, the founder and first king of the Majapahit Empire in Java.
- 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: Bhuvanekabahu VII Target entity description: Bhuvanekabahu VII was a 16th-century king of the Kingdom of Kotte in Sri Lanka, known for his reign during a period of increasing Portuguese influence on the island.
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A.
Parakramabahu VI
Parakramabahu VI was a 15th-century Sri Lankan monarch renowned for unifying much of the island and presiding over a flourishing period of literature and trade.
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B.
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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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.
Vijaya
Vijaya was the principal royal and political center of the historical Champa kingdom in what is now central Vietnam.
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E.
Kertarajasa Jayawardhana
Kertarajasa Jayawardhana was the regnal name of Raden Wijaya, the founder and first king of the Majapahit Empire in Java.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
King of Kotte
ⓘ
Sri Lankan monarch ⓘ historical figure ⓘ |
| associatedDynasty |
Kotte Kingdom royal family
ⓘ
linked to:
Kingdom of Kotte
|
| associatedWith |
Colombo (as a Portuguese stronghold during his reign)
ⓘ
linked to:
Portuguese Ceylon
Portuguese Empire ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 16th century ⓘ |
| child | Dharmapala of Kotte ⓘ |
| co-rulerOrRival |
Mayadunne of Sitawaka
ⓘ
Raigama Bandara ⓘ |
| conflictContext | Portuguese expansion in Sri Lanka ⓘ |
| country | Sri Lanka ⓘ |
| culturalContext | Sinhalese Buddhist court culture ⓘ |
| deathCause | assassination ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Kotte ⓘ |
| deathYear | 1551 ⓘ |
| dynasty | House of Siri Sanga Bo ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Sinhalese ⓘ |
| eventAssociated | Vijayabahu VII’s assassination and division of Kotte (1521) ⓘ |
| father | Vijayabahu VII ⓘ |
| foreignPolicy | alliance with the Portuguese against rival Sri Lankan kingdoms ⓘ |
| governmentForm | monarchy ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | Early modern period ⓘ |
| knownAs |
Bhuvanekabahu the Seventh
ⓘ
linked to:
Bhuvanekabahu VII
|
| languageOfCourt | Sinhala ⓘ |
| legacy | marked the beginning of sustained European political influence in Kotte ⓘ |
| monarchicalTitle |
Bhuvanekabahu VII of Kotte
ⓘ
linked to:
Dharma Parakramabahu IX
|
| notableFor |
attempting to maintain Kotte’s autonomy under Portuguese influence
ⓘ
engaging in diplomatic relations with the Portuguese ⓘ granting concessions to the Portuguese in Kotte ⓘ ruling Kotte during early Portuguese presence in Sri Lanka ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity | Western Sri Lanka ⓘ |
| placeOfRule | Kotte ⓘ |
| politicalContext | fragmentation of Sri Lankan polities in the 16th century ⓘ |
| politicalStatusDuringReign | increasing dependence on Portuguese military support ⓘ |
| predecessor | Vijayabahu VII ⓘ |
| realm | Kingdom of Kotte ⓘ |
| region | South Asia ⓘ |
| reignEnd | 1551 ⓘ |
| reignStart | 1521 ⓘ |
| religion | Buddhism ⓘ |
| sovereignOf |
Kotte Kingdom
ⓘ
linked to:
Kingdom of Kotte
|
| successor | Dharmapala of Kotte ⓘ |
| successorStateContext | rise of Sitawaka as a rival power ⓘ |
| title | King of Kotte ⓘ |
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: Bhuvanekabahu VII Description of subject: Bhuvanekabahu VII was a 16th-century king of the Kingdom of Kotte in Sri Lanka, known for his reign during a period of increasing Portuguese influence on the island.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Bhuvanekabahu VII