Melige, Tirthahalli taluk, Shivamogga district, Karnataka, India
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Melige is a village in Tirthahalli taluk of Karnataka’s Shivamogga district, noted as the birthplace of renowned Kannada writer and Jnanpith awardee U. R. Ananthamurthy.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Melige, Tirthahalli taluk, Shivamogga district, Karnataka, India canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2400696 — 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: Melige, Tirthahalli taluk, Shivamogga district, Karnataka, India Context triple: [U. R. Ananthamurthy, placeOfBirth, Melige, Tirthahalli taluk, Shivamogga district, Karnataka, India]
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Dharwad district
Dharwad district is an administrative region in the state of Karnataka, India, known for its cultural heritage, educational institutions, and agricultural landscape.
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Uttara Kannada district
Uttara Kannada district is a coastal district in the Indian state of Karnataka known for its diverse ecosystems, including dense forests, rivers, and Arabian Sea coastline, as well as its rich cultural and linguistic heritage.
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Dakshina Kannada district
Dakshina Kannada district is a coastal district in the Indian state of Karnataka, known for its diverse languages, educational institutions, and cultural and economic hub Mangaluru.
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Shivamogga
Shivamogga is a city in the Malnad region of Karnataka, India, known for its scenic landscapes, proximity to waterfalls like Jog Falls, and role as a regional commercial and educational hub.
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Amalner, Maharashtra, India
Amalner, in Maharashtra, India, is a town best known as the birthplace of the global IT and consulting company Wipro Limited.
- 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: Melige, Tirthahalli taluk, Shivamogga district, Karnataka, India Target entity description: Melige is a village in Tirthahalli taluk of Karnataka’s Shivamogga district, noted as the birthplace of renowned Kannada writer and Jnanpith awardee U. R. Ananthamurthy.
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A.
Dharwad district
Dharwad district is an administrative region in the state of Karnataka, India, known for its cultural heritage, educational institutions, and agricultural landscape.
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B.
Uttara Kannada district
Uttara Kannada district is a coastal district in the Indian state of Karnataka known for its diverse ecosystems, including dense forests, rivers, and Arabian Sea coastline, as well as its rich cultural and linguistic heritage.
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C.
Dakshina Kannada district
Dakshina Kannada district is a coastal district in the Indian state of Karnataka, known for its diverse languages, educational institutions, and cultural and economic hub Mangaluru.
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D.
Shivamogga
Shivamogga is a city in the Malnad region of Karnataka, India, known for its scenic landscapes, proximity to waterfalls like Jog Falls, and role as a regional commercial and educational hub.
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E.
Amalner, Maharashtra, India
Amalner, in Maharashtra, India, is a town best known as the birthplace of the global IT and consulting company Wipro Limited.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
literary award
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person ⓘ village ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Jnanpith Award ⓘ |
| country |
India
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India ⓘ |
| countrySubdivision | South India ⓘ |
| district | Shivamogga district ⓘ |
| hasNotablePersonBornHere | U. R. Ananthamurthy ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | Kannada ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeTerritorialEntity |
India
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Karnataka ⓘ Shivamogga district ⓘ Tirthahalli taluk ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Indian Standard Time ⓘ |
| occupation |
professor
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writer ⓘ |
| officialLanguage | Kannada ⓘ |
| partOf |
Malnad region
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Shivamogga district ⓘ Tirthahalli taluk ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Melige, Tirthahalli taluk, Shivamogga district, Karnataka, India self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| state | Karnataka ⓘ |
| taluk | Tirthahalli taluk ⓘ |
| timeZoneOffset | +05:30 ⓘ |
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: Melige, Tirthahalli taluk, Shivamogga district, Karnataka, India Description of subject: Melige is a village in Tirthahalli taluk of Karnataka’s Shivamogga district, noted as the birthplace of renowned Kannada writer and Jnanpith awardee U. R. Ananthamurthy.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
U. R. Ananthamurthy
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placeOfBirth
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Melige, Tirthahalli taluk, Shivamogga district, Karnataka, India
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Melige, Tirthahalli taluk, Shivamogga district, Karnataka, India
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placeOfBirth
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Melige, Tirthahalli taluk, Shivamogga district, Karnataka, India
self-linksurface differs
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subject surface form:
U. R. Ananthamurthy