Purandar
E276329
Purandar is a historic fort and town in Maharashtra, India, known for its strategic military importance and its role in several significant treaties and battles during the Maratha and British periods.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Purandar canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2543450 — 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: Purandar Context triple: [Treaty of Purandar (1776), tookPlaceAt, Purandar]
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A.
Pitripati
Pitripati is an epithet of the Hindu god Yama, revered as the lord and protector of departed ancestors and the realm of the dead.
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B.
Saartha
Saartha is a renowned Kannada novel by S. L. Bhyrappa that explores philosophical, cultural, and spiritual themes through a journey set in ancient India.
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C.
Veeragase
Veeragase is a vigorous and ritualistic folk dance-drama of Karnataka, India, traditionally performed during festivals to depict stories of valor from Hindu mythology.
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D.
Pavanputra
Pavanputra is a revered epithet of the Hindu deity Hanuman, highlighting his divine parentage as the son of the wind god.
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E.
Kedar
Kedar is traditionally regarded as one of the sons of Ishmael and the ancestor of a nomadic Arab tribe mentioned in biblical and historical sources.
- 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: Purandar Target entity description: Purandar is a historic fort and town in Maharashtra, India, known for its strategic military importance and its role in several significant treaties and battles during the Maratha and British periods.
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A.
Pitripati
Pitripati is an epithet of the Hindu god Yama, revered as the lord and protector of departed ancestors and the realm of the dead.
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B.
Saartha
Saartha is a renowned Kannada novel by S. L. Bhyrappa that explores philosophical, cultural, and spiritual themes through a journey set in ancient India.
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C.
Veeragase
Veeragase is a vigorous and ritualistic folk dance-drama of Karnataka, India, traditionally performed during festivals to depict stories of valor from Hindu mythology.
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D.
Pavanputra
Pavanputra is a revered epithet of the Hindu deity Hanuman, highlighting his divine parentage as the son of the wind god.
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E.
Kedar
Kedar is traditionally regarded as one of the sons of Ishmael and the ancestor of a nomadic Arab tribe mentioned in biblical and historical sources.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fort
ⓘ
hill fort ⓘ historic site ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
British East India Company
ⓘ
Maratha Empire ⓘ Mughal Empire (in much of the territory) ⓘ
surface form:
Mughal Empire
Shivaji ⓘ |
| category |
Forts in Pune district
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Maratha forts ⓘ Tourist attractions in Maharashtra ⓘ |
| country | India ⓘ |
| elevation | approximately 1370 metres above sea level ⓘ |
| governedBy | Government of Maharashtra ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName | Purandar Fort ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Purandar Fort
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Vajragad Fort ⓘ |
| hasStructure |
bastions
ⓘ
fort walls ⓘ gates ⓘ temples ⓘ |
| historicalEvent |
Treaty of Purandar signed between Shivaji and Jai Singh I in 1665
ⓘ
Treaty of Purandar (1776) ⓘ
surface form:
Treaty of Purandar signed between the British East India Company and the Marathas in 1776
|
| knownFor |
Treaty of Purandar (1665)
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Treaty of Purandar (1776) ⓘ role in Anglo-Maratha conflicts ⓘ role in Maratha history ⓘ strategic military importance ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
Marathi language
ⓘ
surface form:
Marathi
|
| locatedIn |
Maharashtra
ⓘ
Pune district ⓘ |
| locatedInMountainRange | Western Ghats ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Pune
ⓘ
Saswad ⓘ |
| nearestMajorCity | Pune ⓘ |
| region | Deccan Plateau ⓘ |
| religiousSite | temples dedicated to Hindu deities ⓘ |
| stateProtected | yes ⓘ |
| strategicRole |
controlling routes in the Western Ghats
ⓘ
guarding approaches to Pune ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfSignificance |
British colonial period
ⓘ
Maratha period ⓘ Mughal–Maratha Wars ⓘ
surface form:
Mughal–Maratha wars
|
| tourismType |
heritage tourism destination
ⓘ
trekking destination ⓘ |
| usedAs |
defensive fortification
ⓘ
garrison ⓘ military stronghold ⓘ |
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: Purandar Description of subject: Purandar is a historic fort and town in Maharashtra, India, known for its strategic military importance and its role in several significant treaties and battles during the Maratha and British periods.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.