Balabhadra
E525571
Balabhadra, also known as Balarama, is a major Hindu deity revered as the elder brother of Krishna and a prominent figure in Vaishnavism.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Balabhadra canonical | 18 |
| Lord Balabhadra | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5242186 — 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: Balabhadra Context triple: [Subhadra, siblingTrio, Balabhadra]
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A.
Yudhajit
Yudhajit is a lesser-known prince in the Ramayana, recognized as the brother of Queen Kaikeyi and thus an uncle of Bharata.
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B.
Pradyumna
Pradyumna is a prominent figure in Hindu mythology, known as the son of Krishna and Rukmini and considered an incarnation of the love god Kamadeva.
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C.
Shanmukha
Shanmukha is a revered Hindu deity of war and victory, widely worshipped as the six-faced son of Shiva and Parvati.
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D.
Sureshvara
Sureshvara was an influential early Advaita Vedanta philosopher and commentator, traditionally regarded as a direct disciple of Adi Shankaracharya and known for his works clarifying non-dualistic doctrine.
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E.
Gangaputra
Gangaputra is an epithet of Bhishma, the revered warrior and elder statesman of the Indian epic Mahabharata, highlighting his divine lineage as the son of the river goddess Ganga.
- 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: Balabhadra Target entity description: Balabhadra, also known as Balarama, is a major Hindu deity revered as the elder brother of Krishna and a prominent figure in Vaishnavism.
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A.
Yudhajit
Yudhajit is a lesser-known prince in the Ramayana, recognized as the brother of Queen Kaikeyi and thus an uncle of Bharata.
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B.
Pradyumna
Pradyumna is a prominent figure in Hindu mythology, known as the son of Krishna and Rukmini and considered an incarnation of the love god Kamadeva.
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C.
Shanmukha
Shanmukha is a revered Hindu deity of war and victory, widely worshipped as the six-faced son of Shiva and Parvati.
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D.
Sureshvara
Sureshvara was an influential early Advaita Vedanta philosopher and commentator, traditionally regarded as a direct disciple of Adi Shankaracharya and known for his works clarifying non-dualistic doctrine.
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E.
Gangaputra
Gangaputra is an epithet of Bhishma, the revered warrior and elder statesman of the Indian epic Mahabharata, highlighting his divine lineage as the son of the river goddess Ganga.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Balabhadra Description of subject: Balabhadra, also known as Balarama, is a major Hindu deity revered as the elder brother of Krishna and a prominent figure in Vaishnavism.
Referenced by (20)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Balabhadra
linked to: Balabhadra