Ajahn
E491312
Ajahn is a Thai Buddhist honorific title commonly used for respected monks and teachers, roughly meaning "teacher" or "master."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ajahn canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5060335 — 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: Ajahn Context triple: [Sulak Sivaraksa, hasHonorific, Ajahn]
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A.
Buddhadasa Bhikkhu
Buddhadasa Bhikkhu was a highly influential 20th-century Thai Buddhist monk and reformer known for his rational, socially engaged interpretation of Theravada Buddhism and his role in inspiring the Engaged Buddhism movement.
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B.
Acharya
Acharya is a Sanskrit honorific title traditionally bestowed upon revered spiritual teachers and scholars in Indian religious and philosophical traditions.
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C.
Saw Maung
Saw Maung was a Burmese military general who briefly served as the head of state of Myanmar after leading the 1988 military coup.
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D.
Bodhi
Bodhi is the enlightened understanding or awakening in Buddhism, representing the profound realization of the true nature of reality.
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E.
Maudgalyāyana
Maudgalyāyana is one of the Buddha’s foremost disciples in early Buddhism, renowned for his extraordinary supernatural powers and deep spiritual insight.
- 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: Ajahn Target entity description: Ajahn is a Thai Buddhist honorific title commonly used for respected monks and teachers, roughly meaning "teacher" or "master."
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A.
Buddhadasa Bhikkhu
Buddhadasa Bhikkhu was a highly influential 20th-century Thai Buddhist monk and reformer known for his rational, socially engaged interpretation of Theravada Buddhism and his role in inspiring the Engaged Buddhism movement.
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B.
Acharya
Acharya is a Sanskrit honorific title traditionally bestowed upon revered spiritual teachers and scholars in Indian religious and philosophical traditions.
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C.
Saw Maung
Saw Maung was a Burmese military general who briefly served as the head of state of Myanmar after leading the 1988 military coup.
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D.
Bodhi
Bodhi is the enlightened understanding or awakening in Buddhism, representing the profound realization of the true nature of reality.
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E.
Maudgalyāyana
Maudgalyāyana is one of the Buddha’s foremost disciples in early Buddhism, renowned for his extraordinary supernatural powers and deep spiritual insight.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (21)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Buddhist honorific
ⓘ
Thai honorific title ⓘ |
| appliesTo |
Buddhist monks
ⓘ
Buddhist teachers ⓘ |
| buddhistTradition |
Theravada Buddhism
ⓘ
linked to:
Theravada
|
| culturalContext | Thai culture ⓘ |
| etymology | derived from Pali word acariya ⓘ |
| genderUsage | primarily male monastics ⓘ |
| honorificFor |
respected monks
ⓘ
senior monastics ⓘ spiritual teachers ⓘ |
| language | Thai ⓘ |
| meaning |
master
ⓘ
teacher ⓘ |
| religionContext | Buddhism ⓘ |
| script | Thai script ⓘ |
| titleType |
monastic title
ⓘ
religious title ⓘ |
| transliterationOf | อาจารย์ (Thai word for teacher) ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Thai Theravada Buddhism
ⓘ
linked to:
Thai Buddhism
Thailand ⓘ |
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: Ajahn Description of subject: Ajahn is a Thai Buddhist honorific title commonly used for respected monks and teachers, roughly meaning "teacher" or "master."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Sivaraksa