Nira Benegal
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Nira Benegal is the wife of acclaimed Indian film director and screenwriter Shyam Benegal.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Nira Benegal canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4951592 — 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: Nira Benegal Context triple: [Shyam Benegal, spouse, Nira Benegal]
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A.
Shyam Benegal
Shyam Benegal is a renowned Indian film director and screenwriter, widely regarded as a pioneer of parallel cinema and known for his socially conscious and critically acclaimed works.
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B.
Chhabi Biswas
Chhabi Biswas was a renowned Indian Bengali film and stage actor, celebrated for his powerful character roles and collaborations with directors like Satyajit Ray.
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C.
Deepa Mehta
Deepa Mehta is an Indo-Canadian filmmaker best known for her socially charged and visually rich films such as the Elements Trilogy (Fire, Earth, and Water).
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D.
Adoor Gopalakrishnan
Adoor Gopalakrishnan is an acclaimed Indian filmmaker and pioneer of Malayalam parallel cinema, renowned for his socially conscious, art-house films and numerous national and international awards.
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E.
Nabaneeta Dev Sen
Nabaneeta Dev Sen was a prominent Indian Bengali writer, poet, and academic known for her contributions to contemporary Bengali literature and feminist thought.
- 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: Nira Benegal Target entity description: Nira Benegal is the wife of acclaimed Indian film director and screenwriter Shyam Benegal.
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A.
Shyam Benegal
Shyam Benegal is a renowned Indian film director and screenwriter, widely regarded as a pioneer of parallel cinema and known for his socially conscious and critically acclaimed works.
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B.
Chhabi Biswas
Chhabi Biswas was a renowned Indian Bengali film and stage actor, celebrated for his powerful character roles and collaborations with directors like Satyajit Ray.
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C.
Deepa Mehta
Deepa Mehta is an Indo-Canadian filmmaker best known for her socially charged and visually rich films such as the Elements Trilogy (Fire, Earth, and Water).
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D.
Adoor Gopalakrishnan
Adoor Gopalakrishnan is an acclaimed Indian filmmaker and pioneer of Malayalam parallel cinema, renowned for his socially conscious, art-house films and numerous national and international awards.
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E.
Nabaneeta Dev Sen
Nabaneeta Dev Sen was a prominent Indian Bengali writer, poet, and academic known for her contributions to contemporary Bengali literature and feminist thought.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (8)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | India ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | married ⓘ |
| occupation |
film director
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screenwriter ⓘ |
| spouse |
Nira Benegal
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Shyam Benegal ⓘ |
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: Nira Benegal Description of subject: Nira Benegal is the wife of acclaimed Indian film director and screenwriter Shyam Benegal.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Nira Benegal