Gogol Ganguli
E304966
Gogol Ganguli is the American-born son of Bengali immigrants whose struggle with identity, family expectations, and cultural heritage forms the emotional core of Jhumpa Lahiri’s novel "The Namesake."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Gogol Ganguli canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2855176 — 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: Gogol Ganguli Context triple: [The Namesake, mainCharacter, Gogol Ganguli]
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A.
Goutam Ghose
Goutam Ghose is an acclaimed Indian filmmaker and cinematographer known for his socially conscious and visually poetic works in Bengali and parallel cinema.
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B.
Tarashankar Bandyopadhyay
Tarashankar Bandyopadhyay was a prominent 20th-century Bengali novelist and short story writer known for his vivid depictions of rural Bengal and its social transformations.
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C.
Manik Bandopadhyay
Manik Bandopadhyay was a prominent 20th-century Bengali novelist and short story writer known for his stark, realistic portrayals of rural and urban life and his pioneering role in modern Bengali fiction.
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D.
Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay
Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay is a prominent Indian Bengali author known for his novels, short stories, and popular children's literature.
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E.
Aghorenath Chattopadhyay
Aghorenath Chattopadhyay was an Indian educationist and social reformer who served as the principal of Nizam College in Hyderabad and was the father of poet and freedom fighter Sarojini Naidu.
- 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: Gogol Ganguli Target entity description: Gogol Ganguli is the American-born son of Bengali immigrants whose struggle with identity, family expectations, and cultural heritage forms the emotional core of Jhumpa Lahiri’s novel "The Namesake."
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A.
Goutam Ghose
Goutam Ghose is an acclaimed Indian filmmaker and cinematographer known for his socially conscious and visually poetic works in Bengali and parallel cinema.
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B.
Tarashankar Bandyopadhyay
Tarashankar Bandyopadhyay was a prominent 20th-century Bengali novelist and short story writer known for his vivid depictions of rural Bengal and its social transformations.
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C.
Manik Bandopadhyay
Manik Bandopadhyay was a prominent 20th-century Bengali novelist and short story writer known for his stark, realistic portrayals of rural and urban life and his pioneering role in modern Bengali fiction.
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D.
Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay
Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay is a prominent Indian Bengali author known for his novels, short stories, and popular children's literature.
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E.
Aghorenath Chattopadhyay
Aghorenath Chattopadhyay was an Indian educationist and social reformer who served as the principal of Nizam College in Hyderabad and was the father of poet and freedom fighter Sarojini Naidu.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
literary character ⓘ protagonist ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Namesake ⓘ |
| appearsInMedium | novel ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Massachusetts ⓘ |
| centralThemeOfWork |
negotiation of dual identities
ⓘ
tension between tradition and modernity ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| createdBy | Jhumpa Lahiri ⓘ |
| culturalHeritage |
Bengali people
ⓘ
surface form:
Bengali American
Indian American ⓘ |
| ethnicOrigin |
Bengali
ⓘ
Indian ⓘ |
| familyName | Ganguli ⓘ |
| firstPublicationOfWork | 2003 ⓘ |
| givenName |
Nikolai Gogol
ⓘ
surface form:
Gogol
|
| hasEducation | architecture student ⓘ |
| hasFather | Ashoke Ganguli ⓘ |
| hasMother | Ashima Ganguli ⓘ |
| hasSibling | Sonia Ganguli ⓘ |
| inspiredBy | Nikolai Gogol ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | contemporary literature ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus |
assimilation
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cultural identity ⓘ generational conflict ⓘ immigrant family dynamics ⓘ name and selfhood ⓘ |
| residesIn |
Massachusetts
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
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: Gogol Ganguli Description of subject: Gogol Ganguli is the American-born son of Bengali immigrants whose struggle with identity, family expectations, and cultural heritage forms the emotional core of Jhumpa Lahiri’s novel "The Namesake."
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.