Putlibai
E69817
Putlibai was the deeply religious mother of Mahatma Gandhi, whose piety and moral influence profoundly shaped his character and values.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Putlibai canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T556126 — 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: Putlibai Context triple: [Putlibai Gandhi, givenName, Putlibai]
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A.
Piipaash
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B.
Jagaban
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C.
Tikkana
Tikkana was a prominent 13th-century Telugu poet and scholar best known for translating a major portion of the Mahabharata into Telugu and helping shape classical Telugu literature.
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D.
Premji
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E.
The Ball
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- 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: Putlibai Target entity description: Putlibai was the deeply religious mother of Mahatma Gandhi, whose piety and moral influence profoundly shaped his character and values.
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A.
Piipaash
Piipaash are a Native American people of the lower Colorado River region, closely related to the Maricopa and known for their distinct language and cultural traditions.
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B.
Jagaban
Jagaban is the popular political nickname of Nigerian politician and current president Bola Ahmed Tinubu, often used to signify his influential “godfather” status in Nigerian politics.
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C.
Tikkana
Tikkana was a prominent 13th-century Telugu poet and scholar best known for translating a major portion of the Mahabharata into Telugu and helping shape classical Telugu literature.
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D.
Premji
Premji is an Indian surname most prominently associated with billionaire philanthropist and Wipro chairman Azim Premji.
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E.
The Ball
The Ball is the popular nickname for Reunion Tower, a distinctive geodesic observation tower and Dallas landmark known for its glowing spherical top.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
mother
ⓘ
person ⓘ |
| child | Mahatma Gandhi ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | India ⓘ |
| describedIn | The Story of My Experiments with Truth ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Gujarati ⓘ |
| familyName | Gandhi family ⓘ |
| hasOccupation | homemaker ⓘ |
| hasRelative |
Karsandas Gandhi
ⓘ
Laxmidas Gandhi ⓘ Raliatbehn Gandhi ⓘ |
| influenced | Mahatma Gandhi ⓘ |
| influenceType | moral and spiritual influence on Mahatma Gandhi ⓘ |
| knownFor |
devotion to religious vows
ⓘ
regular prayer and temple visits ⓘ |
| mother | Putlibai ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the mother of Mahatma Gandhi
ⓘ
strong religious piety ⓘ |
| partOf | Gandhi family ⓘ |
| placeOfResidence |
Porbandar
ⓘ
Rajkot ⓘ |
| practiced | religious fasting ⓘ |
| religiousBelief | Hinduism ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse |
Karamchand Gandhi
ⓘ
Putlibai ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 19th century ⓘ |
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: Putlibai Description of subject: Putlibai was the deeply religious mother of Mahatma Gandhi, whose piety and moral influence profoundly shaped his character and values.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.