Hikkaduwe Sri Sumangala Nayaka Thera

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Buddhist monk Buddhist scholar Sri Lankan person Theravada Buddhist monk educationist religious leader

Hikkaduwe Sri Sumangala Nayaka Thera was a prominent 19th-century Sri Lankan Buddhist monk and scholar who played a key role in the revival of Buddhism in Sri Lanka.

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All labels observed (4)

Label	Occurrences
Nayaka Thera	3
Hikkaduwe Sri Sumangala Nayaka Thera canonical	1
Hikkaduwe Sri Sumangala Thera	1
Sri Sumangala Thera	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6315557 — 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: Hikkaduwe Sri Sumangala Nayaka Thera
Context triple: [Gangaramaya Temple, foundedBy, Hikkaduwe Sri Sumangala Nayaka Thera]

A. Mahinda Thera
Mahinda Thera was an Indian Buddhist monk traditionally credited with introducing Buddhism to Sri Lanka and playing a key role in establishing it as a major religion on the island.
B. Senasammata Vikramabahu
Senasammata Vikramabahu was a late 15th-century Sri Lankan monarch who established and ruled the independent Kingdom of Kandy in the central highlands.
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.
D. King Kashyapa I of Anuradhapura
King Kashyapa I of Anuradhapura was a 5th-century Sri Lankan monarch best known for his dramatic usurpation of the throne and for establishing his fortress-palace at Sigiriya.
E. Mayadunne of Sitawaka
Mayadunne of Sitawaka was a 16th-century Sri Lankan monarch who ruled the Kingdom of Sitawaka and became known for his fierce resistance against Portuguese colonial expansion on the island.
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: Hikkaduwe Sri Sumangala Nayaka Thera
Target entity description: Hikkaduwe Sri Sumangala Nayaka Thera was a prominent 19th-century Sri Lankan Buddhist monk and scholar who played a key role in the revival of Buddhism in Sri Lanka.

A. Mahinda Thera
Mahinda Thera was an Indian Buddhist monk traditionally credited with introducing Buddhism to Sri Lanka and playing a key role in establishing it as a major religion on the island.
B. Senasammata Vikramabahu
Senasammata Vikramabahu was a late 15th-century Sri Lankan monarch who established and ruled the independent Kingdom of Kandy in the central highlands.
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.
D. King Kashyapa I of Anuradhapura
King Kashyapa I of Anuradhapura was a 5th-century Sri Lankan monarch best known for his dramatic usurpation of the throne and for establishing his fortress-palace at Sigiriya.
E. Mayadunne of Sitawaka
Mayadunne of Sitawaka was a 16th-century Sri Lankan monarch who ruled the Kingdom of Sitawaka and became known for his fierce resistance against Portuguese colonial expansion on the island.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (43)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Buddhist monk ⓘ Buddhist scholar ⓘ Sri Lankan person ⓘ Theravada Buddhist monk ⓘ educationist ⓘ religious leader ⓘ
cause	defense of Buddhism under colonial rule ⓘ promotion of Buddhist learning ⓘ
centuryActive	19th century ⓘ
continentOfCitizenship	Asia ⓘ
countryOfCitizenship	Sri Lanka ⓘ
era	British colonial period in Ceylon ⓘ
ethnicGroup	Sinhalese ⓘ
fieldOfWork	Buddhist studies ⓘ Pali studies ⓘ Sinhala Buddhist literature ⓘ religious education ⓘ
gender	male ⓘ
hasOccupation	monk ⓘ scholar ⓘ teacher ⓘ
honorificPrefix	Sri ⓘ
honorificSuffix	Nayaka Thera ⓘ linked to: Hikkaduwe Sri Sumangala Nayaka Thera
ideology	Buddhist modernism ⓘ
influenced	Buddhist lay organizations in Sri Lanka ⓘ Sri Lankan Buddhist education ⓘ later generations of Sri Lankan monks ⓘ
languageOfWorkOrName	Pali ⓘ Sinhala ⓘ
movement	Buddhist revival in Sri Lanka ⓘ
notableFor	Buddhist education in Sri Lanka ⓘ Buddhist scholarship ⓘ leadership in 19th-century Sri Lankan Buddhism ⓘ revival of Buddhism in Sri Lanka ⓘ
partOf	Sri Lankan Buddhist clergy ⓘ
placeOfActivity	Ceylon ⓘ linked to: Sri Lanka Sri Lanka ⓘ
positionHeld	Mahanayaka Thera ⓘ chief prelate of a Buddhist monastic order in Sri Lanka ⓘ
religion	Buddhism ⓘ Theravada Buddhism ⓘ linked to: Theravada
title	Hikkaduwe Sri Sumangala Thera ⓘ linked to: Hikkaduwe Sri Sumangala Nayaka Thera Sri Sumangala Thera ⓘ linked to: Hikkaduwe Sri Sumangala Nayaka Thera

How these facts were elicited