Gotamī
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Gotamī is a revered early Buddhist nun best known as the Buddha’s foster mother and the first woman to be ordained into the Buddhist monastic order.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Gotamī canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11674128 — 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: Gotamī Context triple: [Mahāpajāpatī Gotamī, title, Gotamī]
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A.
Mahākāśyapa
Mahākāśyapa was one of the Buddha’s foremost disciples, revered in early Buddhism and Zen as the primary heir to the Buddha’s teaching and the first patriarch of the Zen lineage.
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B.
Puspadanta
Puspadanta was a prominent Jain monk and poet known for composing important Apabhramsha-language works such as the Mahapurana.
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C.
Brahma-datta Rama
Brahma-datta Rama is an alternate name for Parashurama, the axe-wielding warrior-sage and sixth avatar of the Hindu god Vishnu.
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D.
Shurasena
Shurasena was an ancient Yadava king of the Vrishni clan, known in Hindu tradition as the grandfather of Krishna and a prominent ruler in the Mahabharata era.
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E.
Bodhi
Bodhi is the charismatic, thrill-seeking surfer and bank robber who serves as the philosophical antagonist to FBI agent Johnny Utah in the film "Point Break."
- 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: Gotamī Target entity description: Gotamī is a revered early Buddhist nun best known as the Buddha’s foster mother and the first woman to be ordained into the Buddhist monastic order.
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A.
Mahākāśyapa
Mahākāśyapa was one of the Buddha’s foremost disciples, revered in early Buddhism and Zen as the primary heir to the Buddha’s teaching and the first patriarch of the Zen lineage.
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B.
Puspadanta
Puspadanta was a prominent Jain monk and poet known for composing important Apabhramsha-language works such as the Mahapurana.
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C.
Brahma-datta Rama
Brahma-datta Rama is an alternate name for Parashurama, the axe-wielding warrior-sage and sixth avatar of the Hindu god Vishnu.
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D.
Shurasena
Shurasena was an ancient Yadava king of the Vrishni clan, known in Hindu tradition as the grandfather of Krishna and a prominent ruler in the Mahabharata era.
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E.
Bodhi
Bodhi is the enlightened understanding or awakening in Buddhism, representing the profound realization of the true nature of reality.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Buddhist nun
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disciple of Gautama Buddha ⓘ early Buddhist figure ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
history of the bhikkhunī sangha
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ordination of women in Buddhism ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | ancient India ⓘ |
| culture | ancient Indian Buddhist culture ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | ancient Indian ⓘ |
| follows | teachings of Gautama Buddha ⓘ |
| hasCanonicalStatus | early disciple in Buddhist tradition ⓘ |
| hasHonorificTitle | revered nun ⓘ |
| hasRelative |
Gautama Buddha
ⓘ
linked to:
Buddha
|
| hasRole | foster mother of Gautama Buddha ⓘ |
| influenced | later Buddhist views on women’s ordination ⓘ |
| isSubjectOf | Buddhist hagiographical traditions ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Pali ⓘ |
| notableEvent | first female ordination into the Buddhist sangha ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the Buddha’s foster mother
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being the first woman ordained into the Buddhist monastic order ⓘ |
| partOf | early Buddhist sangha ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Buddhist bhikkhunī ⓘ |
| religion | Buddhism ⓘ |
| religiousOrder | Buddhist monastic order ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 6th–5th century BCE ⓘ |
| typeOfKinship | foster motherhood toward the Buddha ⓘ |
| veneratedAs | early Buddhist nun ⓘ |
| veneratedIn |
Mahayana Buddhism
ⓘ
linked to:
Mahayana
Theravāda Buddhism ⓘ
linked to:
Theravada
|
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: Gotamī Description of subject: Gotamī is a revered early Buddhist nun best known as the Buddha’s foster mother and the first woman to be ordained into the Buddhist monastic order.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.