Harilal Gandhi
E65919
Harilal Gandhi was the eldest son of Mahatma Gandhi and Kasturba Gandhi, known for his troubled relationship with his father and struggles with identity, education, and alcoholism.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Harilal Gandhi canonical | 11 |
| Abdullah Gandhi | 1 |
| Harilal Gandhi: A Life | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T520806 — 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: Harilal Gandhi Context triple: [Kasturba Gandhi, child, Harilal Gandhi]
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A.
Karamchand Gandhi
Karamchand Gandhi was an Indian political figure who served as the diwan (chief minister) of the princely state of Porbandar and was the father of Mahatma Gandhi.
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B.
Manilal Gandhi
Manilal Gandhi was an Indian independence activist and the second son of Mahatma Gandhi, known for his work as a journalist and editor in South Africa.
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C.
Putlibai Gandhi
Putlibai Gandhi was the deeply religious and influential mother of Mahatma Gandhi, whose piety and values profoundly shaped his character and philosophy.
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D.
Mahadev Desai
Mahadev Desai was an Indian independence activist, writer, and close associate and secretary of Mahatma Gandhi, known for translating Gandhi’s autobiography into English and documenting the freedom struggle.
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E.
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel was an Indian statesman and the country’s first Deputy Prime Minister, renowned for unifying over 500 princely states into the modern Republic of India.
- 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: Harilal Gandhi Target entity description: Harilal Gandhi was the eldest son of Mahatma Gandhi and Kasturba Gandhi, known for his troubled relationship with his father and struggles with identity, education, and alcoholism.
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A.
Karamchand Gandhi
Karamchand Gandhi was an Indian political figure who served as the diwan (chief minister) of the princely state of Porbandar and was the father of Mahatma Gandhi.
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B.
Manilal Gandhi
Manilal Gandhi was an Indian independence activist and the second son of Mahatma Gandhi, known for his work as a journalist and editor in South Africa.
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C.
Putlibai Gandhi
Putlibai Gandhi was the deeply religious and influential mother of Mahatma Gandhi, whose piety and values profoundly shaped his character and philosophy.
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D.
Mahadev Desai
Mahadev Desai was an Indian independence activist, writer, and close associate and secretary of Mahatma Gandhi, known for translating Gandhi’s autobiography into English and documenting the freedom struggle.
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E.
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel was an Indian statesman and the country’s first Deputy Prime Minister, renowned for unifying over 500 princely states into the modern Republic of India.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1888-08-23 ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Delhi, British India
ⓘ
linked to:
Delhi
|
| causeOfDeath |
alcohol-related complications
ⓘ
liver disease ⓘ |
| conflictWith | Mahatma Gandhi ⓘ |
| conversionName |
Abdullah Gandhi
ⓘ
linked to:
Harilal Gandhi
|
| convertedTo | Islam ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
British India
ⓘ
India ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1948-06-18 ⓘ |
| deathPlace |
Bombay, Bombay State, India
ⓘ
linked to:
Mumbai
|
| education |
attempted matriculation examinations
ⓘ
schooling in Rajkot ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Gujarati ⓘ |
| familyName | Gandhi ⓘ |
| father | Mahatma Gandhi ⓘ |
| fullName | Harilal Mohandas Gandhi ⓘ |
| givenName | Harilal ⓘ |
| knownFor |
alcoholism
ⓘ
struggles with education and identity ⓘ troubled relationship with Mahatma Gandhi ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
English
ⓘ
Gujarati ⓘ Hindi ⓘ |
| laterRevertedReligion | Hinduism ⓘ |
| mother | Kasturba Gandhi ⓘ |
| movement |
Indian independence movement (peripherally associated through family)
ⓘ
linked to:
Indian independence movement
|
| notableWork | letters exchanged with Mahatma Gandhi ⓘ |
| numberOfChildren | 5 ⓘ |
| occupation |
clerk
ⓘ
small businessman ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Akshaye Khanna ⓘ |
| relationshipToMahatmaGandhi | eldest son ⓘ |
| religion | Hinduism ⓘ |
| residence |
Ahmedabad
ⓘ
Bombay ⓘ
linked to:
Mumbai
South Africa ⓘ |
| sibling |
Devdas Gandhi
ⓘ
Manilal Gandhi ⓘ Ramdas Gandhi ⓘ |
| spouse | Gulab Gandhi ⓘ |
| struggledWith |
alcoholism
ⓘ
education ⓘ financial instability ⓘ identity crisis ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
Gandhi, My Father
ⓘ
Harilal Gandhi: A Life ⓘ
linked to:
Harilal Gandhi
|
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: Harilal Gandhi Description of subject: Harilal Gandhi was the eldest son of Mahatma Gandhi and Kasturba Gandhi, known for his troubled relationship with his father and struggles with identity, education, and alcoholism.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.