General of the Dharma
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General of the Dharma is an honorific title in Buddhism for Śāriputra, recognizing him as one of the Buddha’s foremost disciples renowned for his wisdom and leadership in teaching the Dharma.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| General of the Dharma canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11674280 — 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: General of the Dharma Context triple: [Śāriputra, holdsTitle, General of the Dharma]
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A.
Dharma Vira
Dharma Vira was an Indian civil servant and administrator who held several prominent gubernatorial and diplomatic posts in independent India.
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B.
Dharma-bhrata
Dharma-bhrata is an epithet of Bharata, a revered figure in Indian epic tradition celebrated for his righteousness and adherence to dharma.
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C.
Dharmamangal
Dharmamangal is a subgenre of medieval Bengali narrative poetry that centers on the worship, legends, and miracles of the folk deity Dharma Thakur.
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D.
Dharma-raja
Dharma-raja is a title of the Hindu god Yama in his role as the divine judge who upholds cosmic law and moral order.
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E.
Father of All Monks
Father of All Monks is an honorific title given to Anthony the Great, recognizing him as a pioneering founder and model of Christian monasticism.
- 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: General of the Dharma Target entity description: General of the Dharma is an honorific title in Buddhism for Śāriputra, recognizing him as one of the Buddha’s foremost disciples renowned for his wisdom and leadership in teaching the Dharma.
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A.
Dharma Vira
Dharma Vira was an Indian civil servant and administrator who held several prominent gubernatorial and diplomatic posts in independent India.
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B.
Dharma-bhrata
Dharma-bhrata is an epithet of Bharata, a revered figure in Indian epic tradition celebrated for his righteousness and adherence to dharma.
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C.
Dharmamangal
Dharmamangal is a subgenre of medieval Bengali narrative poetry that centers on the worship, legends, and miracles of the folk deity Dharma Thakur.
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D.
Dharma-raja
Dharma-raja is a title of the Hindu god Yama in his role as the divine judge who upholds cosmic law and moral order.
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E.
Father of All Monks
Father of All Monks is an honorific title given to Anthony the Great, recognizing him as a pioneering founder and model of Christian monasticism.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Buddhist honorific title
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disciple of the Buddha ⓘ |
| appliedTo |
Śāriputra in Buddhist tradition
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linked to:
Śāriputra
|
| associatedWith |
Gautama Buddha
ⓘ
linked to:
Buddha
Gautama Buddha ⓘ
linked to:
Buddha
|
| denotesQuality |
leadership in teaching the Dharma
ⓘ
wisdom ⓘ |
| denotesRole | foremost disciple of the Buddha ⓘ |
| honorificFor | Śāriputra ⓘ |
| honorificTitle | General of the Dharma ⓘ |
| knownFor |
leadership in teaching the Dharma
ⓘ
wisdom ⓘ |
| languageContext | English rendering of a Buddhist epithet ⓘ |
| memberOf | Buddhist sangha ⓘ |
| refersTo | Śāriputra ⓘ |
| relatedConcept | foremost in wisdom among the Buddha’s disciples ⓘ |
| religiousTradition |
Buddhism
ⓘ
Buddhism ⓘ |
| role | foremost in wisdom among the Buddha’s disciples ⓘ |
| roleInTradition | recognizes Śāriputra’s leadership in the Buddha’s sangha ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
ability to lead and instruct other disciples
ⓘ
commanding mastery of the Dharma ⓘ |
| titleType | honorific religious title ⓘ |
| usedIn | Buddhist doctrinal and devotional contexts ⓘ |
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: General of the Dharma Description of subject: General of the Dharma is an honorific title in Buddhism for Śāriputra, recognizing him as one of the Buddha’s foremost disciples renowned for his wisdom and leadership in teaching the Dharma.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.