Indica by Megasthenes
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Indica by Megasthenes is an ancient Greek account of India that provides one of the earliest detailed foreign descriptions of the Mauryan Empire, its society, geography, and governance.
All labels observed (1)
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| Indica by Megasthenes canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T16540951 — 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: Indica by Megasthenes Context triple: [Treaty with Chandragupta Maurya, relatedWork, Indica by Megasthenes]
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A.
Arrian’s Indica
Arrian’s *Indica* is an ancient Greek historical and ethnographic work that describes India and the voyage of Alexander the Great’s admiral Nearchus along the Indian Ocean.
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B.
Arthashastra
Arthashastra is an ancient Indian treatise on statecraft, economics, and military strategy, traditionally attributed to Kautilya (Chanakya), that outlines detailed principles of governance and political power.
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C.
Relectio de Indis
Relectio de Indis is a foundational 16th-century theological-legal treatise that helped establish principles of international law and the rights of Indigenous peoples in the context of Spanish colonial expansion.
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D.
Harshacharita
Harshacharita is a 7th-century Sanskrit prose biography of the Indian emperor Harsha, composed by the poet Bāṇabhaṭṭa and valued as both a literary classic and a key historical source on early medieval North India.
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E.
Brihat Samhita
Brihat Samhita is a 6th-century encyclopedic Sanskrit text that covers astrology, astronomy, architecture, omens, and various aspects of natural and social sciences in ancient India.
- 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: Indica by Megasthenes Target entity description: Indica by Megasthenes is an ancient Greek account of India that provides one of the earliest detailed foreign descriptions of the Mauryan Empire, its society, geography, and governance.
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A.
Arrian’s Indica
Arrian’s *Indica* is an ancient Greek historical and ethnographic work that describes India and the voyage of Alexander the Great’s admiral Nearchus along the Indian Ocean.
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B.
Arthashastra
Arthashastra is an ancient Indian treatise on statecraft, economics, and military strategy, traditionally attributed to Kautilya (Chanakya), that outlines detailed principles of governance and political power.
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C.
Relectio de Indis
Relectio de Indis is a foundational 16th-century theological-legal treatise that helped establish principles of international law and the rights of Indigenous peoples in the context of Spanish colonial expansion.
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D.
Harshacharita
Harshacharita is a 7th-century Sanskrit prose biography of the Indian emperor Harsha, composed by the poet Bāṇabhaṭṭa and valued as both a literary classic and a key historical source on early medieval North India.
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E.
Brihat Samhita
Brihat Samhita is a 6th-century encyclopedic Sanskrit text that covers astrology, astronomy, architecture, omens, and various aspects of natural and social sciences in ancient India.
- F. None of above. chosen
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