Sapta Puri
E134866
Sapta Puri are the seven most sacred pilgrimage cities in Hinduism, believed to grant spiritual liberation to devotees who visit them.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sapta Puri canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1075836 — 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: Sapta Puri Context triple: [Kashi, isOneOf, Sapta Puri]
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A.
Dahanapura
Dahanapura was the principal city and political center of the historical Kediri Kingdom in Java.
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B.
Hastinapura
Hastinapura is the ancient royal capital of the Kuru kingdom in Indian epic tradition, serving as the primary political and familial setting of the Mahabharata.
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C.
Dharmakshetra
Dharmakshetra is the sacred battlefield of Kurukshetra in the Indian epic Mahabharata, revered as a holy site where the Bhagavad Gita was spoken.
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D.
Mathura
Mathura is an ancient city in northern India revered in Hinduism as the birthplace of Lord Krishna and a major pilgrimage center.
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E.
Gangaur
Gangaur is a prominent Rajasthani festival dedicated to the worship of Goddess Gauri, celebrating marital fidelity, prosperity, and the well-being of women.
- 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: Sapta Puri Target entity description: Sapta Puri are the seven most sacred pilgrimage cities in Hinduism, believed to grant spiritual liberation to devotees who visit them.
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A.
Dahanapura
Dahanapura was the principal city and political center of the historical Kediri Kingdom in Java.
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B.
Hastinapura
Hastinapura is the ancient royal capital of the Kuru kingdom in Indian epic tradition, serving as the primary political and familial setting of the Mahabharata.
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C.
Dharmakshetra
Dharmakshetra is the sacred battlefield of Kurukshetra in the Indian epic Mahabharata, revered as a holy site where the Bhagavad Gita was spoken.
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D.
Mathura
Mathura is an ancient city in northern India revered in Hinduism as the birthplace of Lord Krishna and a major pilgrimage center.
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E.
Gangaur
Gangaur is a prominent Rajasthani festival dedicated to the worship of Goddess Gauri, celebrating marital fidelity, prosperity, and the well-being of women.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
concept in Hinduism
ⓘ
group of pilgrimage sites ⓘ |
| associatedBelief | visiting all seven cities can grant moksha or spiritual liberation ⓘ |
| associatedConcept |
moksha
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punya (religious merit) ⓘ tirtha yatra ⓘ |
| associatedDeity |
Ganges
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surface form:
Ganga
Krishna ⓘ Rama ⓘ Shiva ⓘ Vishnu ⓘ |
| category |
Hindu holy cities
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Hindu pilgrimage circuits ⓘ |
| culturalRole | important focus of pan-Indian pilgrimage routes ⓘ |
| devoteeActivity |
performance of ancestral rites
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ritual bathing in sacred rivers and tanks ⓘ temple worship ⓘ |
| devotionalPractice | undertaking yatra to all seven cities ⓘ |
| etymology | from Sanskrit ‘sapta’ (seven) and ‘puri’ (city) ⓘ |
| hasMember |
Ayodhya
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Dwarka ⓘ Haridwar ⓘ Kanchipuram ⓘ Mathura ⓘ Ujjain ⓘ Varanasi ⓘ |
| hasNumberOfMembers | 7 ⓘ |
| hasVariantList | some traditional lists include different cities such as Avantika or Kashi depending on source ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Sanskrit ⓘ |
| locatedIn | India ⓘ |
| mentionedIn |
Garuda Purana
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Padma Purana ⓘ Skanda Purana ⓘ various Puranas ⓘ |
| perceivedBenefit |
attainment of higher spiritual status
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removal of sins ⓘ |
| pilgrimageType | tirtha (sacred ford or crossing place) ⓘ |
| relatedConcept |
Char Dham
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Divya Desam center ⓘ
surface form:
Divya Desam
Jyotirlinga ⓘ |
| religiousSignificance | considered the seven most sacred pilgrimage cities in Hinduism ⓘ |
| religiousTradition | Hinduism ⓘ |
| spiritualGoal | liberation from cycle of birth and death ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfConcept | ancient and medieval Hindu religious literature ⓘ |
| translation | Seven Cities ⓘ |
| worshipContext | Hindu pilgrimage traditions ⓘ |
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: Sapta Puri Description of subject: Sapta Puri are the seven most sacred pilgrimage cities in Hinduism, believed to grant spiritual liberation to devotees who visit them.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.