Trishul
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Trishul is a prominent three-peaked Himalayan mountain massif in the Kumaon region of Uttarakhand, India, popular among mountaineers and known for its distinctive trident-like shape.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1481307 — 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: Trishul Context triple: [Uttarakhand, mountainPeak, Trishul]
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A.
trishula
Trishula is a three-pronged spear most famously associated with the Hindu god Shiva, symbolizing divine power, destruction of evil, and the balance of creation, preservation, and dissolution.
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B.
Tristubh
Tristubh is a principal Vedic poetic meter characterized by verses of four lines with eleven syllables each, widely used in ancient Sanskrit hymns.
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C.
Sudarshana Chakra
Sudarshana Chakra is a legendary spinning disc-like divine weapon in Hindu mythology, most famously associated with the god Vishnu and used to destroy evil.
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D.
Gandiva bow
The Gandiva bow is the legendary celestial weapon of the hero Arjuna in the Indian epic Mahabharata, renowned for its immense power and divine origin.
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E.
Vakratunda
Vakratunda is a revered aspect of the Hindu deity Ganesha, depicted with a curved trunk and associated with the removal of obstacles and the subduing of evil forces.
- 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: Trishul Target entity description: Trishul is a prominent three-peaked Himalayan mountain massif in the Kumaon region of Uttarakhand, India, popular among mountaineers and known for its distinctive trident-like shape.
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A.
trishula
Trishula is a three-pronged spear most famously associated with the Hindu god Shiva, symbolizing divine power, destruction of evil, and the balance of creation, preservation, and dissolution.
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B.
Tristubh
Tristubh is a principal Vedic poetic meter characterized by verses of four lines with eleven syllables each, widely used in ancient Sanskrit hymns.
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C.
Sudarshana Chakra
Sudarshana Chakra is a legendary spinning disc-like divine weapon in Hindu mythology, most famously associated with the god Vishnu and used to destroy evil.
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D.
Gandiva bow
The Gandiva bow is the legendary celestial weapon of the hero Arjuna in the Indian epic Mahabharata, renowned for its immense power and divine origin.
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E.
Vakratunda
Vakratunda is a revered aspect of the Hindu deity Ganesha, depicted with a curved trunk and associated with the removal of obstacles and the subduing of evil forces.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Himalayan mountain
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mountain massif ⓘ mountain peak ⓘ mountain peak ⓘ mountain peak ⓘ |
| country | India ⓘ |
| geologicalType | rocky mountain massif ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Trishul
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Trishul I
Trishul II ⓘ Trishul III ⓘ |
| knownFor |
distinctive three-peaked profile
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technical climbing routes ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
India
ⓘ
Kumaon ⓘ
surface form:
Kumaon region
Uttarakhand ⓘ Uttarakhand ⓘ Uttarakhand ⓘ Uttarakhand ⓘ |
| mountainRange |
Garhwal Himalaya
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surface form:
Garhwal–Kumaon Himalaya
|
| namedAfter |
trishula
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surface form:
Shiva's trident
trishula ⓘ
surface form:
Trishula
|
| numberOfPeaks | 3 ⓘ |
| partOf |
Himalayas
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Trishul self-linksurface differs ⓘ Trishul self-linksurface differs ⓘ Trishul self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| popularFor | mountaineering ⓘ |
| region | Kumaon ⓘ |
| shape | trident-like ⓘ |
| tourismType | adventure tourism ⓘ |
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: Trishul Description of subject: Trishul is a prominent three-peaked Himalayan mountain massif in the Kumaon region of Uttarakhand, India, popular among mountaineers and known for its distinctive trident-like shape.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.