Uttara
E473857
Uttara is a prince of the Matsya kingdom in the Mahabharata, known for serving as Arjuna’s charioteer during the battle against the Kaurava forces in the Virata Parva.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4836197 — 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: Uttara Context triple: [Virata Parva, featuresCharacter, Uttara]
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A.
Uttara
Uttara is a small settlement located on Middle Andaman Island in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands of India.
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B.
Bihari
Bihari refers to people originating from the Indian state of Bihar, known for their distinct languages (such as Bhojpuri, Maithili, and Magahi), rich cultural traditions, and significant contributions to Indian politics, literature, and labor migration.
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C.
Bihari
Bihari is a central character in Rabindranath Tagore’s novel "Chokher Bali," known for his moral integrity and emotional complexity within the story’s web of relationships.
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D.
Kalyani
Kalyani is a planned town in the Nadia district of West Bengal, India, known for its educational institutions, industries, and organized urban layout.
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E.
Naihati
Naihati is a town in West Bengal, India, known as the birthplace of renowned Bengali novelist and nationalist Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay.
- 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: Uttara Target entity description: Uttara is a prince of the Matsya kingdom in the Mahabharata, known for serving as Arjuna’s charioteer during the battle against the Kaurava forces in the Virata Parva.
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A.
Uttara
Uttara is a small settlement located on Middle Andaman Island in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands of India.
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B.
Bihari
Bihari refers to people originating from the Indian state of Bihar, known for their distinct languages (such as Bhojpuri, Maithili, and Magahi), rich cultural traditions, and significant contributions to Indian politics, literature, and labor migration.
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C.
Bihari
Bihari is a central character in Rabindranath Tagore’s novel "Chokher Bali," known for his moral integrity and emotional complexity within the story’s web of relationships.
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D.
Kalyani
Kalyani is a planned town in the Nadia district of West Bengal, India, known for its educational institutions, industries, and organized urban layout.
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E.
Naihati
Naihati is a town in West Bengal, India, known as the birthplace of renowned Bengali novelist and nationalist Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
character in the Mahabharata
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mythological prince ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Virata Parva ⓘ |
| associatedCity | Virata’s capital ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Kauravas
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Pandavas ⓘ |
| associatedWithEvent | incognito exile of the Pandavas ⓘ |
| battlefieldRole |
charioteer
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warrior ⓘ |
| father | Virata ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| kingdom | Matsya ⓘ |
| kingdomRuler | Virata ⓘ |
| languageOfPrimarySources | Sanskrit ⓘ |
| literaryTradition | Hindu epic literature ⓘ |
| mother | Sudeshna ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | supporting warrior prince in the Virata Parva ⓘ |
| notableFor | driving Arjuna’s chariot against Kaurava forces ⓘ |
| opponents | Kaurava army ⓘ |
| relatedDynastyOrHouse | Matsya dynasty ⓘ |
| relative | Bhuminjaya ⓘ |
| religiousContext | Hinduism ⓘ |
| roleInBattle | charioteer of Arjuna ⓘ |
| servedAsCharioteerFor | Arjuna ⓘ |
| sibling | Uttaraa ⓘ |
| textualSource | Mahabharata ⓘ |
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: Uttara Description of subject: Uttara is a prince of the Matsya kingdom in the Mahabharata, known for serving as Arjuna’s charioteer during the battle against the Kaurava forces in the Virata Parva.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Uttara
linked to: Uttara