Sakya school
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The Sakya school is one of the four major traditions of Tibetan Buddhism, known for its scholarly monasticism, tantric teachings, and influential role in Tibet’s political and religious history.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Sakya school canonical | 2 |
| Sakya school of Tibetan Buddhism | 2 |
| Dzongpa sub-school | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2882925 — 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: Sakya school Context triple: [Tibetan Kangyur, usedBy, Sakya school]
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Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism
The Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism is a major reformist tradition founded by Je Tsongkhapa, known for its strict monastic discipline, emphasis on philosophical study, and being the lineage of the Dalai Lamas.
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Caodong school
The Caodong school is a major Chinese Chan Buddhist tradition known for its emphasis on silent illumination meditation and later influence on the Japanese Sōtō Zen school.
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Bhatta school
The Bhatta school is a prominent subtradition of the Mimamsa philosophical system in Hinduism, associated especially with the thinker Kumarila Bhatta and known for its rigorous defense of Vedic ritualism and epistemology.
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Tawang Monastery
Tawang Monastery is a prominent 17th-century Tibetan Buddhist monastery in northeastern India, renowned as one of the largest monasteries in the world and an important center of Mahayana Buddhism.
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Linji lineage
The Linji lineage is a prominent school of Chan (Zen) Buddhism known for its emphasis on sudden enlightenment, paradoxical dialogues, and the use of shouting and striking to jolt students into awakening.
- 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: Sakya school Target entity description: The Sakya school is one of the four major traditions of Tibetan Buddhism, known for its scholarly monasticism, tantric teachings, and influential role in Tibet’s political and religious history.
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A.
Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism
The Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism is a major reformist tradition founded by Je Tsongkhapa, known for its strict monastic discipline, emphasis on philosophical study, and being the lineage of the Dalai Lamas.
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B.
Caodong school
The Caodong school is a major Chinese Chan Buddhist tradition known for its emphasis on silent illumination meditation and later influence on the Japanese Sōtō Zen school.
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C.
Bhatta school
The Bhatta school is a prominent subtradition of the Mimamsa philosophical system in Hinduism, associated especially with the thinker Kumarila Bhatta and known for its rigorous defense of Vedic ritualism and epistemology.
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D.
Tawang Monastery
Tawang Monastery is a prominent 17th-century Tibetan Buddhist monastery in northeastern India, renowned as one of the largest monasteries in the world and an important center of Mahayana Buddhism.
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E.
Linji lineage
The Linji lineage is a prominent school of Chan (Zen) Buddhism known for its emphasis on sudden enlightenment, paradoxical dialogues, and the use of shouting and striking to jolt students into awakening.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (58)
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: Sakya school Description of subject: The Sakya school is one of the four major traditions of Tibetan Buddhism, known for its scholarly monasticism, tantric teachings, and influential role in Tibet’s political and religious history.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Sakya school of Tibetan Buddhism
this entity surface form:
Dzongpa sub-school
this entity surface form:
Sakya school of Tibetan Buddhism