Kala
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Kala is a character from the Old Javanese epic poem Kakawin Sutasoma, often associated with destructive or fearsome aspects within the narrative’s moral and spiritual themes.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kala canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5233495 — 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: Kala Context triple: [Kakawin Sutasoma, containsCharacter, Kala]
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A.
Kala
Kala is the critically acclaimed 2007 studio album by British-Sri Lankan artist M.I.A., known for its eclectic global influences and politically charged themes.
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B.
Kori
Kori is a given name, often used as a variant spelling of Cory or Corey.
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C.
Kula
Kula is a town and municipality in the Bačka region of the autonomous province of Vojvodina in northern Serbia.
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D.
Kaul
Kaul is a Kashmiri Pandit surname historically associated with prominent Indian families, including that of Kamala Nehru.
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E.
Kali
Kali is a fierce and powerful Hindu goddess associated with time, destruction, and the transformative power that annihilates evil.
- 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: Kala Target entity description: Kala is a character from the Old Javanese epic poem Kakawin Sutasoma, often associated with destructive or fearsome aspects within the narrative’s moral and spiritual themes.
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A.
Kala
Kala is the critically acclaimed 2007 studio album by British-Sri Lankan artist M.I.A., known for its eclectic global influences and politically charged themes.
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B.
Kori
Kori is a given name, often used as a variant spelling of Cory or Corey.
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C.
Kula
Kula is a town and municipality in the Bačka region of the autonomous province of Vojvodina in northern Serbia.
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D.
Kaul
Kaul is a Kashmiri Pandit surname historically associated with prominent Indian families, including that of Kamala Nehru.
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E.
Kali
Kali is a fierce and powerful Hindu goddess associated with time, destruction, and the transformative power that annihilates evil.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
character in Kakawin Sutasoma
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literary character ⓘ mythological figure ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Kakawin Sutasoma ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
destruction
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fear ⓘ moral themes ⓘ spiritual themes ⓘ |
| culturalContext |
Javanese Hindu-Buddhist tradition
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Javanese literature ⓘ |
| depicts | fearsome aspects of existence ⓘ |
| hasCanonicalStatus | important figure in Kakawin Sutasoma ⓘ |
| hasMoralSignificance | warning against uncontrolled destructive forces ⓘ |
| hasRole | antagonistic figure ⓘ |
| hasThematicRelation |
control of destructive impulses
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good versus evil ⓘ spiritual discipline ⓘ |
| influencedBy | Indic mythological concepts of Kala ⓘ |
| literaryGenre | epic poetry ⓘ |
| medium | Old Javanese text ⓘ |
| nameInLanguage |
Old Javanese
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linked to:
Kawi (Old Javanese)
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| narrativeFunction |
embodiment of destructive aspects
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test for the protagonist’s virtue ⓘ |
| partOfWork | moral allegory in Kakawin Sutasoma ⓘ |
| relatedConcept |
cosmic time
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death ⓘ |
| relatedWork | Old Javanese kakawin tradition ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
danger of moral transgression
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threat to spiritual progress ⓘ |
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: Kala Description of subject: Kala is a character from the Old Javanese epic poem Kakawin Sutasoma, often associated with destructive or fearsome aspects within the narrative’s moral and spiritual themes.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.