Thaton
E276027
Thaton is an ancient city in southern Myanmar historically significant as a major center of the Mon kingdom and Theravada Buddhism in the region.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Thaton canonical | 6 |
| Thaton region | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2525936 — 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: Thaton Context triple: [Mon, capitalCityHistorical, Thaton]
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A.
Thann
Thann is a small historic town in northeastern France, located at the foot of the Vosges mountains in the Haut-Rhin department of Alsace.
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B.
Mora
Mora is a surname of Hungarian origin most notably borne by the German-Hungarian writer Terézia Mora.
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C.
Yeola
Yeola is a town in the Nashik district of Maharashtra, India, known historically as the birthplace of the Indian freedom fighter Tatya Tope.
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D.
Edenborn
Edenborn is a science fiction novel by Nick Sagan that continues his post-apocalyptic series exploring genetic engineering and the future of humanity.
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E.
Tarsos
Tarsos is the ancient name of the historic city of Tarsus in Cilicia, a significant cultural and commercial center in the eastern Mediterranean world.
- 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: Thaton Target entity description: Thaton is an ancient city in southern Myanmar historically significant as a major center of the Mon kingdom and Theravada Buddhism in the region.
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A.
Thann
Thann is a small historic town in northeastern France, located at the foot of the Vosges mountains in the Haut-Rhin department of Alsace.
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B.
Mora
Mora is a surname of Hungarian origin most notably borne by the German-Hungarian writer Terézia Mora.
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C.
Yeola
Yeola is a town in the Nashik district of Maharashtra, India, known historically as the birthplace of the Indian freedom fighter Tatya Tope.
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D.
Edenborn
Edenborn is a science fiction novel by Nick Sagan that continues his post-apocalyptic series exploring genetic engineering and the future of humanity.
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E.
Tarsos
Tarsos is the ancient name of the historic city of Tarsus in Cilicia, a significant cultural and commercial center in the eastern Mediterranean world.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ancient city
ⓘ
historical city ⓘ |
| associatedEthnicGroup | Mon people ⓘ |
| associatedLanguage | Mon language ⓘ |
| conqueredBy |
Anawrahta
ⓘ
surface form:
King Anawrahta
Pagan Kingdom ⓘ |
| conquestYear | 1057 ⓘ |
| country | Myanmar ⓘ |
| culturalHeritage | Mon Buddhist culture ⓘ |
| hasArchaeologicalRemains |
ancient religious structures
ⓘ
old city sites ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod |
early second millennium CE
ⓘ
pre-Pagan era ⓘ |
| historicalRegion |
southern Myanmar
ⓘ
surface form:
Lower Burma
Thaton Kingdom ⓘ
surface form:
Mon kingdom
|
| influenced | Pagan Kingdom religious reforms ⓘ |
| linkedTo | spread of Theravada Buddhism in mainland Southeast Asia ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Mon State
ⓘ
southern Myanmar ⓘ |
| modernAdministrativeRole | town in Mon State ⓘ |
| modernCountry |
Myanmar
ⓘ
surface form:
Republic of the Union of Myanmar
|
| nearBodyOfWater | Gulf of Martaban ⓘ |
| partOf | historic Mon kingdoms network ⓘ |
| region | Southeast Asia ⓘ |
| religion |
Theravada
ⓘ
surface form:
Theravada Buddhism
|
| religiousHeritage | early Theravada monastic centers ⓘ |
| roleInBuddhism |
center of Pali scholarship
ⓘ
source of Theravada Buddhist texts for Pagan ⓘ |
| significance |
major center of Theravada Buddhism
ⓘ
major center of the Mon kingdom ⓘ |
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: Thaton Description of subject: Thaton is an ancient city in southern Myanmar historically significant as a major center of the Mon kingdom and Theravada Buddhism in the region.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Thaton region