Madame Cama

E656091

Indian independence activist person revolutionary

Madame Cama was an Indian independence activist and revolutionary who is best known for unfurling one of the first versions of the Indian national flag on foreign soil and advocating for India’s freedom from British rule.

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All labels observed (2)

Label	Occurrences
Madam Cama	2
Madame Cama canonical	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7310518 — 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: Madame Cama
Context triple: [Bhikaji Cama, alsoKnownAs, Madame Cama]

A. Madame Pichon
Madame Pichon is a minor fictional character in Émile Zola’s novel "Pot-Bouille," representing the petty-bourgeois milieu of a Parisian apartment building.
B. Madame Merle
Madame Merle is a sophisticated, manipulative socialite in Henry James’s novel "The Portrait of a Lady," known for her calculated influence over the heroine Isabel Archer.
C. Madame Mère
Madame Mère was the honorific title of Letizia Ramolino, the mother of Napoleon Bonaparte and matriarch of the Bonaparte family.
D. Madame Ban
Madame Ban is the honorific title commonly used for Yoo Soon-taek, the wife of former United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and a prominent South Korean public figure.
E. Madame L'Espanaye
Madame L'Espanaye is a fictional Parisian woman whose brutal and mysterious death forms the central crime investigated in Edgar Allan Poe's pioneering detective story "The Murders in the Rue Morgue."
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: Madame Cama
Target entity description: Madame Cama was an Indian independence activist and revolutionary who is best known for unfurling one of the first versions of the Indian national flag on foreign soil and advocating for India’s freedom from British rule.

A. Madame Pichon
Madame Pichon is a minor fictional character in Émile Zola’s novel "Pot-Bouille," representing the petty-bourgeois milieu of a Parisian apartment building.
B. Madame Merle
Madame Merle is a sophisticated, manipulative socialite in Henry James’s novel "The Portrait of a Lady," known for her calculated influence over the heroine Isabel Archer.
C. Madame Mère
Madame Mère was the honorific title of Letizia Ramolino, the mother of Napoleon Bonaparte and matriarch of the Bonaparte family.
D. Madame Ban
Madame Ban is the honorific title commonly used for Yoo Soon-taek, the wife of former United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and a prominent South Korean public figure.
E. Madame L'Espanaye
Madame L'Espanaye is a fictional Parisian woman whose brutal and mysterious death forms the central crime investigated in Edgar Allan Poe's pioneering detective story "The Murders in the Rue Morgue."
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (45)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Indian independence activist ⓘ person ⓘ revolutionary ⓘ
advocatedFor	Indian self-rule ⓘ women’s rights ⓘ
alsoKnownAs	Bhikaji Cama ⓘ Madam Cama ⓘ linked to: Madame Cama
associatedWith	Indian nationalist expatriate circles in Europe ⓘ
burialPlace	Parsi cemetery, Bombay ⓘ linked to: Parsi crematorium, Bombay
citizenshipStatus	subject of British India ⓘ
countryOfCitizenship	India ⓘ
date	1907 ⓘ
dateOfBirth	1861-09-24 ⓘ
dateOfDeath	1936-08-13 ⓘ
ethnicGroup	Parsi ⓘ linked to: Parsis
fieldOfWork	anti-colonial activism ⓘ political journalism ⓘ
fullName	Bhikaiji Rustom Cama ⓘ linked to: Bhikaji Rustom Cama
gender	female ⓘ
hasHonor	Indian postage stamp issued in her honor ⓘ roads and institutions in India named after her ⓘ
knownFor	activities in Europe for Indian independence ⓘ advocacy for India’s freedom from British rule ⓘ unfurling an early version of the Indian national flag on foreign soil ⓘ
languageSpoken	English ⓘ French ⓘ Gujarati ⓘ
movement	Indian independence movement ⓘ
notableEvent	unfurled an early Indian national flag at the International Socialist Congress in Stuttgart ⓘ
notableWork	propaganda for Indian independence in European political circles ⓘ
occupation	orator ⓘ political activist ⓘ writer ⓘ
opposedTo	British colonial rule in India ⓘ
placeOfBirth	Bombay ⓘ linked to: Mumbai Bombay Presidency, British India ⓘ linked to: Bombay Presidency
placeOfDeath	Bombay ⓘ linked to: Mumbai Bombay Presidency, British India ⓘ linked to: Bombay Presidency
politicalIdeology	Indian nationalism ⓘ
religion	Zoroastrianism ⓘ
residence	Bombay ⓘ linked to: Mumbai Geneva ⓘ London ⓘ linked to: London, England Paris ⓘ
spouse	Rustom Cama ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Bhikaji Cama → alsoKnownAs → Madame Cama ⓘ

subject linked to: Madam Bhikaji Cama

Madame Cama → alsoKnownAs → Madam Cama ⓘ

linked to: Madame Cama

Bhikaji Rustom Cama → alsoKnownAs → Madam Cama ⓘ