Ashoke Ganguli
E304967
Ashoke Ganguli is a reflective, resilient Bengali immigrant father in Jhumpa Lahiri’s novel "The Namesake," whose past trauma and quiet strength profoundly shape his family’s life in America.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ashoke Ganguli canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2855177 — 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: Ashoke Ganguli Context triple: [The Namesake, mainCharacter, Ashoke Ganguli]
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A.
Partha Sarathi
Partha Sarathi is a name commonly associated with the Hindu deity Krishna in his role as the charioteer and guide of Arjuna in the Mahabharata.
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B.
Partha
Partha is a given name commonly used in India, often associated with figures in academia, arts, and public life.
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C.
Pradip Bose
Pradip Bose is a computer engineer and researcher known for his contributions to microprocessor architecture and performance analysis, particularly at IBM.
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D.
Basu
Basu is an Indian surname, particularly common among Bengali communities, that is closely related to and sometimes used as a variant of the surname Bose.
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E.
Bejoy Kumar Sinha
Bejoy Kumar Sinha was an Indian revolutionary and freedom fighter associated with the Hindustan Socialist Republican Association who participated in the militant struggle against British colonial rule.
- 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: Ashoke Ganguli Target entity description: Ashoke Ganguli is a reflective, resilient Bengali immigrant father in Jhumpa Lahiri’s novel "The Namesake," whose past trauma and quiet strength profoundly shape his family’s life in America.
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A.
Partha Sarathi
Partha Sarathi is a name commonly associated with the Hindu deity Krishna in his role as the charioteer and guide of Arjuna in the Mahabharata.
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B.
Partha
Partha is a given name commonly used in India, often associated with figures in academia, arts, and public life.
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C.
Pradip Bose
Pradip Bose is a computer engineer and researcher known for his contributions to microprocessor architecture and performance analysis, particularly at IBM.
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D.
Basu
Basu is an Indian surname, particularly common among Bengali communities, that is closely related to and sometimes used as a variant of the surname Bose.
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E.
Bejoy Kumar Sinha
Bejoy Kumar Sinha was an Indian revolutionary and freedom fighter associated with the Hindustan Socialist Republican Association who participated in the militant struggle against British colonial rule.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
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: Ashoke Ganguli Description of subject: Ashoke Ganguli is a reflective, resilient Bengali immigrant father in Jhumpa Lahiri’s novel "The Namesake," whose past trauma and quiet strength profoundly shape his family’s life in America.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.