Tapati Lahiri
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Tapati Lahiri is the mother of acclaimed author Jhumpa Lahiri and a key figure in the writer’s Bengali-Indian family background.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tapati Lahiri canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T505829 — 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: Tapati Lahiri Context triple: [Jhumpa Lahiri, parent, Tapati Lahiri]
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A.
Ritu Banga
Ritu Banga is an Indian-American businesswoman and co-founder of the talent advisory firm Zoomdojo, known also as the wife of Mastercard executive and World Bank president Ajay Banga.
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B.
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.
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C.
Nilanjana Sudeshna Lahiri
Nilanjana Sudeshna Lahiri, better known as Jhumpa Lahiri, is a Pulitzer Prize–winning author renowned for her fiction exploring Indian-American immigrant experiences and identity.
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D.
Amar Lahiri
Amar Lahiri is the father of Pulitzer Prize–winning author Jhumpa Lahiri and a key figure in her Bengali-Indian immigrant family background.
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E.
Arundhati Roy
Arundhati Roy is an Indian author and activist best known for her Booker Prize–winning novel "The God of Small Things" and her outspoken political commentary on social and environmental justice.
- 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: Tapati Lahiri Target entity description: Tapati Lahiri is the mother of acclaimed author Jhumpa Lahiri and a key figure in the writer’s Bengali-Indian family background.
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A.
Ritu Banga
Ritu Banga is an Indian-American businesswoman and co-founder of the talent advisory firm Zoomdojo, known also as the wife of Mastercard executive and World Bank president Ajay Banga.
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B.
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.
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C.
Nilanjana Sudeshna Lahiri
Nilanjana Sudeshna Lahiri, better known as Jhumpa Lahiri, is a Pulitzer Prize–winning author renowned for her fiction exploring Indian-American immigrant experiences and identity.
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D.
Amar Lahiri
Amar Lahiri is the father of Pulitzer Prize–winning author Jhumpa Lahiri and a key figure in her Bengali-Indian immigrant family background.
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E.
Arundhati Roy
Arundhati Roy is an Indian author and activist best known for her Booker Prize–winning novel "The God of Small Things" and her outspoken political commentary on social and environmental justice.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (10)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | person ⓘ |
| ethnicBackground | Bengali ⓘ |
| familyName |
Lahiri
ⓘ
linked to:
Amar Lahiri
|
| hasChild | Jhumpa Lahiri ⓘ |
| isKeyFigureIn | Jhumpa Lahiri's Bengali-Indian family background ⓘ |
| isMotherOf | Jhumpa Lahiri ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
Bengali
ⓘ
English ⓘ |
| name | Tapati Lahiri ⓘ |
| nationality | Indian ⓘ |
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: Tapati Lahiri Description of subject: Tapati Lahiri is the mother of acclaimed author Jhumpa Lahiri and a key figure in the writer’s Bengali-Indian family background.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.