Lord of the Beginning
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Lord of the Beginning is an epithet of Rishabhanatha, the first Tirthankara in Jainism who is revered as the primordial spiritual teacher and founder of the Jain religious tradition.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Lord of the Beginning canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11025418 — 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: Lord of the Beginning Context triple: [Rishabhanatha, epithet, Lord of the Beginning]
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A.
Lord of Beginnings
Lord of Beginnings is an epithet of the Hindu deity Ganesha, highlighting his role as the remover of obstacles and patron of new ventures and auspicious starts.
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B.
Lord of the Sun
Lord of the Sun is an epithet of the ancient Egyptian sun god Ra, emphasizing his supreme authority over light, creation, and the sky.
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C.
The Books of Beginning
The Books of Beginning is a middle-grade fantasy trilogy by John Stephens that follows three siblings who discover they are linked to three powerful magical books capable of reshaping the world.
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D.
Lord of the West
Lord of the West is an epithet of the Egyptian god Osiris, highlighting his role as ruler of the afterlife and the realm of the dead.
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E.
Belegaer
Belegaer is the vast western ocean of Tolkien’s Middle-earth, separating its lands from the distant continent of Aman.
- 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: Lord of the Beginning Target entity description: Lord of the Beginning is an epithet of Rishabhanatha, the first Tirthankara in Jainism who is revered as the primordial spiritual teacher and founder of the Jain religious tradition.
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A.
Lord of Beginnings
Lord of Beginnings is an epithet of the Hindu deity Ganesha, highlighting his role as the remover of obstacles and patron of new ventures and auspicious starts.
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B.
Lord of the Sun
Lord of the Sun is an epithet of the ancient Egyptian sun god Ra, emphasizing his supreme authority over light, creation, and the sky.
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C.
The Books of Beginning
The Books of Beginning is a middle-grade fantasy trilogy by John Stephens that follows three siblings who discover they are linked to three powerful magical books capable of reshaping the world.
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D.
Lord of the West
Lord of the West is an epithet of the Egyptian god Osiris, highlighting his role as ruler of the afterlife and the realm of the dead.
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E.
Belegaer
Belegaer is the vast western ocean of Tolkien’s Middle-earth, separating its lands from the distant continent of Aman.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
epithet
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religious title ⓘ |
| appliedTo | Rishabhanatha as primordial teacher ⓘ |
| appliedToDeityType | Jina ⓘ |
| appliesTo | Rishabhanatha as first Tirthankara ⓘ |
| associatedWithRole |
founder of the Jain religious tradition
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primordial spiritual teacher ⓘ |
| connotation |
primordial origin
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spiritual primacy ⓘ |
| honorificFor |
first Tirthankara
ⓘ
linked to:
Rishabhanatha
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| honorificSense | veneration ⓘ |
| languageOfUse | English ⓘ |
| linkedConcept |
Jain spiritual lineage
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Tirthankara ⓘ founder of Jain dharma ⓘ |
| refersTo | Rishabhanatha ⓘ |
| refersToPositionInOrder | first Tirthankara in current time cycle ⓘ |
| religiousContext |
Jain devotional literature
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Jain worship of Tirthankaras ⓘ |
| religiousFunction | expresses reverence for Rishabhanatha ⓘ |
| religiousTradition | Jainism ⓘ |
| semanticField |
lordship and mastery
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origin and beginning ⓘ |
| titleType | devotional epithet ⓘ |
| usedByCommunity |
Jain community
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linked to:
Jains
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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: Lord of the Beginning Description of subject: Lord of the Beginning is an epithet of Rishabhanatha, the first Tirthankara in Jainism who is revered as the primordial spiritual teacher and founder of the Jain religious tradition.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.