Mpu Tantular
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Mpu Tantular was a 14th-century Javanese poet and scholar of the Majapahit era, best known for coining the phrase that became Indonesia’s national motto, “Bhinneka Tunggal Ika” (Unity in Diversity).
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mpu Tantular canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1007485 — 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: Mpu Tantular Context triple: [Bhinneka Tunggal Ika, originAuthor, Mpu Tantular]
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A.
Mpu Sindok
Mpu Sindok was a 10th-century Javanese king who relocated the Medang Kingdom’s power center to East Java and founded the Isyana dynasty.
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B.
Panji Tohjaya
Panji Tohjaya was a 13th-century Javanese king who briefly ruled the Singhasari Kingdom in East Java amid dynastic conflict and political intrigue.
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C.
Wikramawardhana
Wikramawardhana was a king of the Majapahit Empire in late 14th–early 15th century Java, known for ruling during the empire’s gradual decline and internal dynastic conflicts.
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D.
Airlangga
Airlangga was an influential 11th-century Javanese king who laid the foundations for powerful East Javanese kingdoms, including Kediri, through political consolidation and cultural patronage.
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E.
Gajah Mada
Gajah Mada was a powerful 14th-century military leader and prime minister of the Majapahit Empire, famed for his oath to unify the Indonesian archipelago under Majapahit rule.
- 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: Mpu Tantular Target entity description: Mpu Tantular was a 14th-century Javanese poet and scholar of the Majapahit era, best known for coining the phrase that became Indonesia’s national motto, “Bhinneka Tunggal Ika” (Unity in Diversity).
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A.
Mpu Sindok
Mpu Sindok was a 10th-century Javanese king who relocated the Medang Kingdom’s power center to East Java and founded the Isyana dynasty.
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B.
Panji Tohjaya
Panji Tohjaya was a 13th-century Javanese king who briefly ruled the Singhasari Kingdom in East Java amid dynastic conflict and political intrigue.
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C.
Wikramawardhana
Wikramawardhana was a king of the Majapahit Empire in late 14th–early 15th century Java, known for ruling during the empire’s gradual decline and internal dynastic conflicts.
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D.
Airlangga
Airlangga was an influential 11th-century Javanese king who laid the foundations for powerful East Javanese kingdoms, including Kediri, through political consolidation and cultural patronage.
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E.
Gajah Mada
Gajah Mada was a powerful 14th-century military leader and prime minister of the Majapahit Empire, famed for his oath to unify the Indonesian archipelago under Majapahit rule.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
14th-century writer
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Javanese poet ⓘ historical figure ⓘ scholar ⓘ |
| associatedReligion | Hindu-Buddhist syncretism ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Indonesian national motto
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Majapahit Empire ⓘ
surface form:
Majapahit Kingdom
|
| century | 14th century ⓘ |
| coinedPhrase |
Bhinneka Tunggal Ika
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surface form:
"Bhinneka Tunggal Ika"
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| countryOfCitizenship |
Majapahit Empire
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surface form:
Majapahit
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| culture | Javanese culture ⓘ |
| describedIn | Old Javanese literary history ⓘ |
| era |
Majapahit Empire
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surface form:
Majapahit era
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| ethnicGroup | Javanese people ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
literature
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philosophy ⓘ religious thought ⓘ |
| genre | kakawin poetry ⓘ |
| historicalContext | late classical period of Javanese literature ⓘ |
| influenced |
Indonesian national identity
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concept of "Unity in Diversity" in Indonesia ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Hindu-Buddhist philosophy
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Majapahit court culture ⓘ |
| inLanguage |
Kawi language
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surface form:
Kawi
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| knownFor |
Bhinneka Tunggal Ika
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surface form:
coining the phrase "Bhinneka Tunggal Ika"
work "Kakawin Arjunawijaya" ⓘ Kakawin Sutasoma ⓘ
surface form:
work "Sutasoma"
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| languageOfWorkOrName |
Kawi (Old Javanese)
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surface form:
Old Javanese
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| legacy |
source of Indonesia’s national motto
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symbol of religious tolerance in Indonesia ⓘ |
| mottoPhraseMeaning |
Unity in Diversity
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surface form:
"Unity in Diversity"
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| nationalMottoConnection | Indonesia ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Kakawin Arjunawiwaha
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surface form:
Kakawin Arjunawijaya
Kakawin Sutasoma ⓘ |
| occupation |
poet
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scholar ⓘ |
| philosophicalView |
religious tolerance
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syncretism of Hinduism and Buddhism ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity | Java ⓘ |
| region |
Indonesian archipelago
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surface form:
Nusantara
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| religion |
Buddhism
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Hinduism ⓘ |
| residence | Majapahit Empire ⓘ |
| timePeriod | pre-Islamic Java ⓘ |
| writingLanguage |
Kawi (Old Javanese)
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surface form:
Old Javanese
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How these facts were elicited
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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: Mpu Tantular Description of subject: Mpu Tantular was a 14th-century Javanese poet and scholar of the Majapahit era, best known for coining the phrase that became Indonesia’s national motto, “Bhinneka Tunggal Ika” (Unity in Diversity).
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.