Bimal Krishna Matilal
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Bimal Krishna Matilal was a renowned Indian philosopher and scholar of Indian logic and ethics who played a major role in bringing classical Indian philosophical traditions into dialogue with contemporary Western philosophy.
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| Bimal Krishna Matilal canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9070232 — 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: Bimal Krishna Matilal Context triple: [Spalding Professor of Eastern Religions and Ethics at the University of Oxford, notableHolder, Bimal Krishna Matilal]
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K. M. Panikkar
K. M. Panikkar was an Indian historian, diplomat, and political thinker known for his influential writings on Indian history and foreign policy and for his role in shaping post-independence India's state and administrative reorganization.
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S. Satyamurti
S. Satyamurti was a prominent Indian nationalist leader and Congress politician from Madras Presidency, known for his eloquence, constitutionalist approach, and key role in the freedom movement.
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Jayanta Chattopadhyay
Jayanta Chattopadhyay is a Bangladeshi actor known for his prominent roles in critically acclaimed films and television dramas.
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D.
Chidananda Dasgupta
Chidananda Dasgupta was an influential Indian film critic, historian, and filmmaker, and a co-founder of the Calcutta Film Society.
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Madhusudan Parthasarathy
Madhusudan Parthasarathy is a computer scientist known for research contributions in formal methods and related areas, including coauthoring work with Rajeev Alur.
- 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: Bimal Krishna Matilal Target entity description: Bimal Krishna Matilal was a renowned Indian philosopher and scholar of Indian logic and ethics who played a major role in bringing classical Indian philosophical traditions into dialogue with contemporary Western philosophy.
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A.
K. M. Panikkar
K. M. Panikkar was an Indian historian, diplomat, and political thinker known for his influential writings on Indian history and foreign policy and for his role in shaping post-independence India's state and administrative reorganization.
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B.
S. Satyamurti
S. Satyamurti was a prominent Indian nationalist leader and Congress politician from Madras Presidency, known for his eloquence, constitutionalist approach, and key role in the freedom movement.
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C.
Jayanta Chattopadhyay
Jayanta Chattopadhyay is a Bangladeshi actor known for his prominent roles in critically acclaimed films and television dramas.
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D.
Chidananda Dasgupta
Chidananda Dasgupta was an influential Indian film critic, historian, and filmmaker, and a co-founder of the Calcutta Film Society.
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E.
Madhusudan Parthasarathy
Madhusudan Parthasarathy is a computer scientist known for research contributions in formal methods and related areas, including coauthoring work with Rajeev Alur.
- 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: Bimal Krishna Matilal Description of subject: Bimal Krishna Matilal was a renowned Indian philosopher and scholar of Indian logic and ethics who played a major role in bringing classical Indian philosophical traditions into dialogue with contemporary Western philosophy.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Spalding Professor of Eastern Religions and Ethics at the University of Oxford
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Bimal Krishna Matilal
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