Ellora Caves

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UNESCO World Heritage Site archaeological site rock-cut cave complex rock-cut temple tourist attraction

Ellora Caves is a renowned complex of rock-cut monasteries and temples in India, celebrated for its monumental architecture and intricate sculptures representing Buddhist, Hindu, and Jain traditions.

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All labels observed (6)

Label Occurrences
Ellora Caves canonical 11
Jain caves at Ellora 2
Ellora Caves UNESCO World Heritage Site 1

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf UNESCO World Heritage Site ⓘ
archaeological site ⓘ
rock-cut cave complex ⓘ
rock-cut temple ⓘ
tourist attraction ⓘ
alsoKnownAs Verul Caves ⓘ
BuddhistCavesRange Caves 1–12 ⓘ
builtBetweenCenturies 6th–10th century CE ⓘ
caveNumber Cave 16 ⓘ
country India ⓘ
dedicatedTo Shiva ⓘ
distanceFromAurangabad about 30 km ⓘ
famousFor intricate sculptures ⓘ
monumental temples ⓘ
rock-cut architecture ⓘ
governingBody Archaeological Survey of India ⓘ
heritageCriteria (i) ⓘ
(iii) ⓘ
(vi) ⓘ
heritageDesignation UNESCO World Heritage Site ⓘ
HinduCavesRange Caves 13–29 ⓘ
inscriptionsLanguage Prakrit ⓘ
Sanskrit ⓘ
JainCavesRange Caves 30–34 ⓘ
locatedIn Aurangabad ⓘ
surface form: Aurangabad district

Ellora Caves self-linksurface differs ⓘ
Maharashtra ⓘ
locatedNear Aurangabad ⓘ
surface form: Aurangabad city
locatedOn Charanandri Hills ⓘ
mainRockType basalt ⓘ
management Archaeological Survey of India ⓘ
nearestAirport Aurangabad Airport ⓘ
nearestRailwayStation Aurangabad railway station ⓘ
notableMonument Kailasa Temple ⓘ
numberOfBuddhistCaves 12 ⓘ
numberOfCaves 34 ⓘ
numberOfHinduCaves 17 ⓘ
numberOfJainCaves 5 ⓘ
partOf Deccan Plateau ⓘ
surface form: Deccan Traps region
periodOfConstructionEndCentury 10th century CE ⓘ
periodOfConstructionStartCentury 6th century CE ⓘ
region Marathwada ⓘ
religiousTraditionsRepresented Buddhism ⓘ
Hinduism ⓘ
Jainism ⓘ
significance coexistence of Buddhist, Hindu, and Jain monuments ⓘ
statePartyToUNESCO India ⓘ
surface form: Republic of India
UNESCOWorldHeritageListingYear 1983 ⓘ
UNESCOWorldHeritageSiteId 243 ⓘ

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: Ellora Caves
Description of subject: Ellora Caves is a renowned complex of rock-cut monasteries and temples in India, celebrated for its monumental architecture and intricate sculptures representing Buddhist, Hindu, and Jain traditions.

Referenced by (17)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Maharashtra → hasUNESCOWorldHeritageSite → Ellora Caves ⓘ
Western India → hasUNESCOWorldHeritageSite → Ellora Caves ⓘ
Aurangabad → knownFor → Ellora Caves ⓘ
Aurangabad → nearbyUNESCOWorldHeritageSite → Ellora Caves ⓘ
ancient India → artCenter → Ellora Caves ⓘ
subject surface form: Ancient India
this entity surface form: Ellora caves
Khuldabad → locatedNear → Ellora Caves ⓘ
Khuldabad → nearbyHeritageSite → Ellora Caves ⓘ
this entity surface form: Ellora Caves UNESCO World Heritage Site
Ajanta Caves → near → Ellora Caves ⓘ
Ellora Caves → locatedIn → Ellora Caves self-linksurface differs ⓘ
subject surface form: Kailasa Temple
Buddhist art → importantSite → Ellora Caves ⓘ
Marathwada → hasHeritageSite → Ellora Caves ⓘ
Aurangabad Airport → nearbyAttraction → Ellora Caves ⓘ
Fatehnagar → knownForProximityTo → Ellora Caves ⓘ
Fatehnagar → hasHeritageNearby → Ellora Caves ⓘ
this entity surface form: UNESCO World Heritage Site Ellora Caves
Rashtrakuta court → architecturalPatronage → Ellora Caves ⓘ
this entity surface form: Ellora Kailasanatha temple
Rashtrakuta court → architecturalPatronage → Ellora Caves ⓘ
this entity surface form: Jain caves at Ellora
Rashtrakuta dynasty → constructed → Ellora Caves ⓘ
this entity surface form: Jain caves at Ellora