Karna
E107766
Karna is a legendary warrior and tragic hero of the Indian epic Mahabharata, renowned for his unmatched archery skills, unwavering loyalty, and complex moral dilemmas.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Karna canonical | 26 |
| Karna from the Mahabharata | 1 |
| Suryaputra Karna | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T860924 — 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: Karna Context triple: [Arjuna Vishada Yoga, featuresCharacter, Karna]
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A.
Arjuna
Arjuna is a central warrior prince in the Indian epic Mahabharata, renowned as the chief disciple of Krishna and the primary recipient of the teachings in the Bhagavad Gita.
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B.
Bhishma
Bhishma is a revered elder warrior and statesman of the Kuru dynasty in the Indian epic Mahabharata, renowned for his vow of celibacy, unwavering duty, and pivotal role in the Kurukshetra War.
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C.
Kauravas
The Kauravas are the antagonistic royal clan in the Indian epic Mahabharata, known for waging the Kurukshetra War against their cousins, the Pandavas.
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D.
Sanjaya
Sanjaya is the charioteer and seer in the Mahabharata who, granted divine vision, narrates the events of the Kurukshetra war to the blind king Dhritarashtra.
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E.
Sanjaya
Sanjaya was an early Javanese king traditionally regarded as the founder of the Mataram (Medang) Kingdom and the Sanjaya dynasty in Central Java.
- 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: Karna Target entity description: Karna is a legendary warrior and tragic hero of the Indian epic Mahabharata, renowned for his unmatched archery skills, unwavering loyalty, and complex moral dilemmas.
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A.
Arjuna
Arjuna is a central warrior prince in the Indian epic Mahabharata, renowned as the chief disciple of Krishna and the primary recipient of the teachings in the Bhagavad Gita.
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B.
Bhishma
Bhishma is a revered elder warrior and statesman of the Kuru dynasty in the Indian epic Mahabharata, renowned for his vow of celibacy, unwavering duty, and pivotal role in the Kurukshetra War.
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C.
Kauravas
The Kauravas are the antagonistic royal clan in the Indian epic Mahabharata, known for waging the Kurukshetra War against their cousins, the Pandavas.
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D.
Sanjaya
Sanjaya is the charioteer and seer in the Mahabharata who, granted divine vision, narrates the events of the Kurukshetra war to the blind king Dhritarashtra.
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E.
Sanjaya
Sanjaya was an early Javanese king traditionally regarded as the founder of the Mataram (Medang) Kingdom and the Sanjaya dynasty in Central Java.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (54)
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: Karna Description of subject: Karna is a legendary warrior and tragic hero of the Indian epic Mahabharata, renowned for his unmatched archery skills, unwavering loyalty, and complex moral dilemmas.
Referenced by (28)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Gandiva
this entity surface form:
Suryaputra Karna
this entity surface form:
Karna from the Mahabharata