Annamalaiyar
E696721
Annamalaiyar is a form of the Hindu god Shiva venerated as the presiding deity of the sacred hill-temple complex at Tiruvannamalai in Tamil Nadu, India.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Annamalaiyar canonical | 5 |
| Annamalai Eswarar | 1 |
| Annamalayar | 1 |
| Arunagiri | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7911832 — 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: Annamalaiyar Context triple: [Annamalaiyar Temple, primaryDeity, Annamalaiyar]
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A.
Nammalvar
Nammalvar was a revered Tamil Vaishnavite saint and poet whose devotional hymns form a central part of the Divya Prabandham in Sri Vaishnavism.
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B.
Kothandaramar
Kothandaramar is a revered form of the Hindu god Rama, typically depicted holding a bow and associated with devotion, righteousness, and temple worship in South India.
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C.
Alaipayuthey
Alaipayuthey is a popular Tamil film soundtrack composed by A. R. Rahman, celebrated for its melodic songs and innovative fusion of classical and contemporary music.
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D.
Sundarar
Sundarar was a revered 8th-century Tamil Shaivite poet-saint, celebrated as one of the three principal Nayanars whose devotional hymns greatly shaped South Indian bhakti tradition.
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E.
Mettupalayam
Mettupalayam is a town in Tamil Nadu, India, known as the gateway to the Nilgiri Hills and a key rail and road junction for travel to Ooty.
- 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: Annamalaiyar Target entity description: Annamalaiyar is a form of the Hindu god Shiva venerated as the presiding deity of the sacred hill-temple complex at Tiruvannamalai in Tamil Nadu, India.
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A.
Nammalvar
Nammalvar was a revered Tamil Vaishnavite saint and poet whose devotional hymns form a central part of the Divya Prabandham in Sri Vaishnavism.
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B.
Kothandaramar
Kothandaramar is a revered form of the Hindu god Rama, typically depicted holding a bow and associated with devotion, righteousness, and temple worship in South India.
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C.
Alaipayuthey
Alaipayuthey is a popular Tamil film soundtrack composed by A. R. Rahman, celebrated for its melodic songs and innovative fusion of classical and contemporary music.
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D.
Sundarar
Sundarar was a revered 8th-century Tamil Shaivite poet-saint, celebrated as one of the three principal Nayanars whose devotional hymns greatly shaped South Indian bhakti tradition.
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E.
Mettupalayam
Mettupalayam is a town in Tamil Nadu, India, known as the gateway to the Nilgiri Hills and a key rail and road junction for travel to Ooty.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: Annamalaiyar Description of subject: Annamalaiyar is a form of the Hindu god Shiva venerated as the presiding deity of the sacred hill-temple complex at Tiruvannamalai in Tamil Nadu, India.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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