Maurya
E764552
Maurya is the tragic, grief-stricken matriarch in J.M. Synge’s play "Riders to the Sea," embodying the suffering and resilience of an Irish coastal family devastated by the sea.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Maurya canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8900901 — 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: Maurya Context triple: [Riders to the Sea, mainCharacter, Maurya]
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A.
Maurya Empire
The Maurya Empire was an ancient Indian dynasty, founded by Chandragupta Maurya and reaching its zenith under Ashoka, that unified much of the Indian subcontinent and played a pivotal role in the spread of Buddhism.
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B.
Gupta Empire
The Gupta Empire was a powerful ancient Indian dynasty, often called a "Golden Age" of India, known for major achievements in art, science, mathematics, and literature.
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C.
Nanda dynasty
The Nanda dynasty was an ancient Indian ruling family that established a powerful and wealthy empire in Magadha before being overthrown by Chandragupta Maurya.
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D.
Sena dynasty
The Sena dynasty was a medieval Hindu ruling family that established a powerful kingdom in Bengal, known for promoting Brahmanical culture, Sanskrit scholarship, and temple construction before the Muslim conquests in eastern India.
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E.
Nanda Empire
The Nanda Empire was an ancient Indian dynasty that ruled much of northern India in the 4th century BCE and laid the groundwork for the rise of the Maurya Empire.
- 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: Maurya Target entity description: Maurya is the tragic, grief-stricken matriarch in J.M. Synge’s play "Riders to the Sea," embodying the suffering and resilience of an Irish coastal family devastated by the sea.
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A.
Maurya Empire
The Maurya Empire was an ancient Indian dynasty, founded by Chandragupta Maurya and reaching its zenith under Ashoka, that unified much of the Indian subcontinent and played a pivotal role in the spread of Buddhism.
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B.
Gupta Empire
The Gupta Empire was a powerful ancient Indian dynasty, often called a "Golden Age" of India, known for major achievements in art, science, mathematics, and literature.
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C.
Nanda dynasty
The Nanda dynasty was an ancient Indian ruling family that established a powerful and wealthy empire in Magadha before being overthrown by Chandragupta Maurya.
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D.
Sena dynasty
The Sena dynasty was a medieval Hindu ruling family that established a powerful kingdom in Bengal, known for promoting Brahmanical culture, Sanskrit scholarship, and temple construction before the Muslim conquests in eastern India.
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E.
Nanda Empire
The Nanda Empire was an ancient Indian dynasty that ruled much of northern India in the 4th century BCE and laid the groundwork for the rise of the Maurya Empire.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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literary character ⓘ theatrical character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Riders to the Sea ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Irish coastal community ⓘ |
| centralThemeEmbodied |
fatalism
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grief ⓘ maternal love ⓘ resilience ⓘ suffering ⓘ |
| conflictWith | the sea ⓘ |
| createdBy | J. M. Synge ⓘ |
| experiences |
loss of sons to the sea
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poverty ⓘ |
| familyRole |
matriarch
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mother ⓘ |
| firstPerformanceOfWork | 1904 ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| literaryMovementContext | Irish Literary Revival ⓘ |
| livesInFictionalLocation | Aran Islands ⓘ |
| nationalityInFiction | Irish ⓘ |
| notableScene | final lament over her dead son ⓘ |
| religiousOutlook | Catholic fatalism ⓘ |
| roleInWork | protagonist ⓘ |
| speaksLanguageInFiction | Hiberno-English dialect ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
endurance in the face of loss
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human helplessness before nature ⓘ the suffering of Irish peasant women ⓘ |
| workGenre | one-act play ⓘ |
| workSettingPeriod | early 20th 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: Maurya Description of subject: Maurya is the tragic, grief-stricken matriarch in J.M. Synge’s play "Riders to the Sea," embodying the suffering and resilience of an Irish coastal family devastated by the sea.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.