Yashoda
E249635
Yashoda was the wife of Mahavira, the 24th Tirthankara of Jainism, and is traditionally regarded as his consort before he renounced worldly life.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Yashoda canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2280905 — 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: Yashoda Context triple: [Mahavira, marriedTo, Yashoda]
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A.
Yashoda
Yashoda is the loving foster mother of the Hindu deity Krishna, revered for her deep maternal devotion and prominent role in his childhood stories.
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B.
Sarada Devi
Sarada Devi was the wife and spiritual consort of Sri Ramakrishna and a revered Hindu saint known as the Holy Mother in the Ramakrishna movement.
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C.
Sarada Devi
Sarada Devi was a 19th-century Bengali woman known primarily as the wife of Debendranath Tagore, a prominent philosopher and leader of the Brahmo Samaj and father of Rabindranath Tagore.
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D.
Kunti
Kunti is a prominent queen and matriarch in the Indian epic Mahabharata, best known as the mother of the Pandava princes.
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E.
Devaki
Devaki is a revered figure in Hindu mythology best known as the mother of Lord Krishna.
- 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: Yashoda Target entity description: Yashoda was the wife of Mahavira, the 24th Tirthankara of Jainism, and is traditionally regarded as his consort before he renounced worldly life.
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A.
Yashoda
Yashoda is the loving foster mother of the Hindu deity Krishna, revered for her deep maternal devotion and prominent role in his childhood stories.
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B.
Sarada Devi
Sarada Devi was the wife and spiritual consort of Sri Ramakrishna and a revered Hindu saint known as the Holy Mother in the Ramakrishna movement.
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C.
Sarada Devi
Sarada Devi was a 19th-century Bengali woman known primarily as the wife of Debendranath Tagore, a prominent philosopher and leader of the Brahmo Samaj and father of Rabindranath Tagore.
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D.
Kunti
Kunti is a prominent queen and matriarch in the Indian epic Mahabharata, best known as the mother of the Pandava princes.
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E.
Devaki
Devaki is a revered figure in Hindu mythology best known as the mother of Lord Krishna.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Jain religious figure
ⓘ
historical figure ⓘ woman ⓘ |
| associatedReligionFigure |
Mahavira
ⓘ
surface form:
Tirthankara Mahavira
|
| associatedTradition |
Digambara Jains
ⓘ
surface form:
Digambara Jain tradition
Svetambara ⓘ
surface form:
Śvetāmbara Jain tradition
|
| associatedWith | 24th Tirthankara of Jainism ⓘ |
| consortOf | Mahavira ⓘ |
| culturalRole | ideal Jain householder wife in traditional narratives ⓘ |
| hadSpouseBeforeRenunciation | Yashoda self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| hasNameVariant |
Yasoda
ⓘ
Yashoda ⓘ
surface form:
Yaśodā
|
| hasSpouse |
Mahavira
ⓘ
surface form:
Vardhamana Mahavira
|
| lifeEvent | lived with Mahavira before his renunciation of worldly life ⓘ |
| maritalStatusWithMahavira | married before his renunciation ⓘ |
| marriageType | householder marriage prior to asceticism of Mahavira ⓘ |
| mentionedIn | Jain traditional accounts of Mahavira’s life ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | illustrates Mahavira’s renunciation of family life ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the wife of Mahavira ⓘ |
| partOfNarrative | early life of Mahavira ⓘ |
| region | ancient India ⓘ |
| religion | Jainism ⓘ |
| roleInHagiography | worldly attachment renounced by Mahavira ⓘ |
| spouseOf |
Mahavira
ⓘ
Yashoda self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| spouseOfTitle | 24th Tirthankara of Jainism ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 6th century BCE (approximate, traditional dating of Mahavira) ⓘ |
| traditionallyRegardedAs | consort of Mahavira prior to his ascetic life ⓘ |
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: Yashoda Description of subject: Yashoda was the wife of Mahavira, the 24th Tirthankara of Jainism, and is traditionally regarded as his consort before he renounced worldly life.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.