Somnath Temple
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Somnath Temple is an ancient and highly revered Hindu temple dedicated to Lord Shiva, renowned as one of the twelve Jyotirlinga shrines and a major pilgrimage site on India’s western coast.
All labels observed (12)
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| Somnath Temple canonical | 25 |
| Somnath | 18 |
| Somnath Jyotirlinga | 2 |
| Somnath Temple, Gujarat | 2 |
| Somnath temple | 2 |
| Gujarat (Somnath) | 1 |
| Shiva as Somnath | 1 |
| Somnath Mahadev | 1 |
| Somnath Temple (approximately 7 km) | 1 |
| Somnath Temple (on its coast) | 1 |
| Somnath Temple at Prabhas Patan | 1 |
| Somnath Temple complex | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T582671 — 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: Somnath Temple Context triple: [Gujarat, hasImportantReligiousSite, Somnath Temple]
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Trimbakeshwar
Trimbakeshwar is an ancient Hindu temple town in Maharashtra, India, renowned as one of the twelve Jyotirlingas of Lord Shiva and a major pilgrimage site.
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Banke Bihari Temple
Banke Bihari Temple is a famous Hindu temple in Vrindavan dedicated to Lord Krishna in his child form, renowned as one of the most important pilgrimage sites in North India.
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Maheshwar Ghat
Maheshwar Ghat is a historic and scenic riverfront on the Narmada in Madhya Pradesh, India, known for its ancient temples, stone steps, and association with Queen Ahilyabai Holkar.
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Kapaleeshwarar Temple
Kapaleeshwarar Temple is a historic and prominent Hindu temple dedicated to Lord Shiva, renowned for its Dravidian architecture and cultural significance in Chennai, India.
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Kashi Vishwanath Temple
Kashi Vishwanath Temple is one of Hinduism’s most sacred shrines dedicated to Lord Shiva, located in the ancient city of Varanasi on the banks of the Ganges River.
- 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: Somnath Temple Target entity description: Somnath Temple is an ancient and highly revered Hindu temple dedicated to Lord Shiva, renowned as one of the twelve Jyotirlinga shrines and a major pilgrimage site on India’s western coast.
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A.
Trimbakeshwar
Trimbakeshwar is an ancient Hindu temple town in Maharashtra, India, renowned as one of the twelve Jyotirlingas of Lord Shiva and a major pilgrimage site.
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B.
Banke Bihari Temple
Banke Bihari Temple is a famous Hindu temple in Vrindavan dedicated to Lord Krishna in his child form, renowned as one of the most important pilgrimage sites in North India.
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C.
Maheshwar Ghat
Maheshwar Ghat is a historic and scenic riverfront on the Narmada in Madhya Pradesh, India, known for its ancient temples, stone steps, and association with Queen Ahilyabai Holkar.
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D.
Kapaleeshwarar Temple
Kapaleeshwarar Temple is a historic and prominent Hindu temple dedicated to Lord Shiva, renowned for its Dravidian architecture and cultural significance in Chennai, India.
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E.
Kashi Vishwanath Temple
Kashi Vishwanath Temple is one of Hinduism’s most sacred shrines dedicated to Lord Shiva, located in the ancient city of Varanasi on the banks of the Ganges River.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
How these facts were elicited
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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: Somnath Temple Description of subject: Somnath Temple is an ancient and highly revered Hindu temple dedicated to Lord Shiva, renowned as one of the twelve Jyotirlinga shrines and a major pilgrimage site on India’s western coast.
Referenced by (56)
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Bhima I of Chaulukya dynasty
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Gujarat is considered a valuable and prominent state in Western India
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western Gujarat
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