Bindusara
E144428
Bindusara was the second emperor of the Maurya dynasty in ancient India, known for consolidating and expanding the vast empire established by his father Chandragupta Maurya.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bindusara canonical | 9 |
| Bindusara Amitraghata | 1 |
| Bindusara Maurya | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1223249 — 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: Bindusara Context triple: [Maurya Empire, notableRuler, Bindusara]
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A.
Rajasuya
Rajasuya is an ancient Vedic royal consecration ritual performed to legitimize and exalt a king’s sovereignty and supreme status.
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B.
Chandragupta Maurya
Chandragupta Maurya was the founder of one of ancient India’s largest and most powerful empires, ruling from Pataliputra and laying the foundations for the Mauryan dynasty’s political and administrative systems.
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C.
Ashoka
Ashoka was a 3rd-century BCE Mauryan emperor of India renowned for his vast empire, conversion to Buddhism, and promotion of nonviolence and moral governance.
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D.
Dasharatha
Dasharatha is the legendary king of Ayodhya in Hindu mythology, best known as the father of Lord Rama.
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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: Bindusara Target entity description: Bindusara was the second emperor of the Maurya dynasty in ancient India, known for consolidating and expanding the vast empire established by his father Chandragupta Maurya.
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A.
Rajasuya
Rajasuya is an ancient Vedic royal consecration ritual performed to legitimize and exalt a king’s sovereignty and supreme status.
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B.
Chandragupta Maurya
Chandragupta Maurya was the founder of one of ancient India’s largest and most powerful empires, ruling from Pataliputra and laying the foundations for the Mauryan dynasty’s political and administrative systems.
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C.
Ashoka
Ashoka was a 3rd-century BCE Mauryan emperor of India renowned for his vast empire, conversion to Buddhism, and promotion of nonviolence and moral governance.
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D.
Dasharatha
Dasharatha is the legendary king of Ayodhya in Hindu mythology, best known as the father of Lord Rama.
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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 (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Indian monarch
ⓘ
Maurya emperor ⓘ historical figure ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Amitraghata
ⓘ
Amitrochates ⓘ Bindusara ⓘ
surface form:
Bindusara Amitraghata
Bindusara ⓘ
surface form:
Bindusara Maurya
|
| associatedWith |
Ajivika tradition
ⓘ
surface form:
Ajivika ascetics
Chanakya ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Pataliputra ⓘ |
| capital | Pataliputra ⓘ |
| child |
Ashoka
ⓘ
Susima ⓘ Vitashoka ⓘ |
| country | Maurya Empire ⓘ |
| deathCause | natural causes (traditional view) ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Pataliputra ⓘ |
| dynasty |
Maurya Empire
ⓘ
surface form:
Maurya dynasty
|
| era |
ancient India
ⓘ
surface form:
Ancient India
|
| ethnicGroup | Indian ⓘ |
| father | Chandragupta Maurya ⓘ |
| givenName | Bindusara self-link ⓘ |
| governanceStyle | centralized imperial administration ⓘ |
| grandfather | Sarvarthasiddhi (traditional account) ⓘ |
| house |
Maurya Empire
ⓘ
surface form:
Maurya
|
| knownFrom |
Buddhist texts
ⓘ
Greek accounts ⓘ Jain texts ⓘ Puranic literature ⓘ |
| language |
Prakrit
ⓘ
Sanskrit ⓘ |
| mother | Durdhara ⓘ |
| notableFor |
consolidating the Maurya Empire
ⓘ
expanding the Maurya Empire ⓘ maintaining political unity over a vast territory ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Emperor of the Maurya Empire ⓘ |
| predecessor | Chandragupta Maurya ⓘ |
| realmExtent | most of the Indian subcontinent ⓘ |
| reignEnd | c. 273 BCE ⓘ |
| reignStart | c. 297 BCE ⓘ |
| religion |
Ajivika tradition
ⓘ
surface form:
Ajivika (attributed)
Hinduism (attributed) ⓘ |
| spouse | Subhadrangi (traditional identification as Ashoka’s mother) ⓘ |
| successor | Ashoka ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 3rd century BCE ⓘ |
| title |
Maharaja
ⓘ
surface form:
Maharajadhiraja
Raja ⓘ
surface form:
Samrat
|
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: Bindusara Description of subject: Bindusara was the second emperor of the Maurya dynasty in ancient India, known for consolidating and expanding the vast empire established by his father Chandragupta Maurya.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Bindusara Maurya
this entity surface form:
Bindusara Amitraghata