House of Dinajara (Kandyan royal line)
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The House of Dinajara was a Kandyan royal lineage in Sri Lanka that ruled the Kingdom of Kandy before the ascension of the South Indian–origin Nayakkar dynasty.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| House of Dinajara (Kandyan royal line) canonical | 1 |
| Kandyan royal line | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3019697 — 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: House of Dinajara (Kandyan royal line) Context triple: [Nayakkar dynasty, precededBy, House of Dinajara (Kandyan royal line)]
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A.
Talpur dynasty
The Talpur dynasty was a Baloch royal family that ruled Sindh in the late 18th and early 19th centuries until its conquest by the British.
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Sailendra dynasty
The Sailendra dynasty was a powerful Buddhist ruling family that dominated much of maritime Southeast Asia, particularly Java and Sumatra, during the 8th–9th centuries and is renowned for monumental architecture such as Borobudur.
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C.
Polonnaruwa Kingdom
The Polonnaruwa Kingdom was a medieval Sinhalese kingdom in Sri Lanka known for its advanced irrigation systems, monumental Buddhist architecture, and role as a major political and cultural center from the 11th to 13th centuries.
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D.
Kingdom of Kotte
The Kingdom of Kotte was a powerful Sinhalese monarchy in southwestern Sri Lanka that flourished from the 15th to the 16th century and became a major center of politics, trade, and Buddhism before its decline and partition.
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E.
Mewar royal dynasty
The Mewar royal dynasty is one of India’s oldest ruling lineages, historically centered in present-day Rajasthan and renowned for its Rajput warrior heritage and patronage of art and architecture.
- 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: House of Dinajara (Kandyan royal line) Target entity description: The House of Dinajara was a Kandyan royal lineage in Sri Lanka that ruled the Kingdom of Kandy before the ascension of the South Indian–origin Nayakkar dynasty.
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A.
Talpur dynasty
The Talpur dynasty was a Baloch royal family that ruled Sindh in the late 18th and early 19th centuries until its conquest by the British.
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B.
Sailendra dynasty
The Sailendra dynasty was a powerful Buddhist ruling family that dominated much of maritime Southeast Asia, particularly Java and Sumatra, during the 8th–9th centuries and is renowned for monumental architecture such as Borobudur.
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C.
Polonnaruwa Kingdom
The Polonnaruwa Kingdom was a medieval Sinhalese kingdom in Sri Lanka known for its advanced irrigation systems, monumental Buddhist architecture, and role as a major political and cultural center from the 11th to 13th centuries.
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D.
Kingdom of Kotte
The Kingdom of Kotte was a powerful Sinhalese monarchy in southwestern Sri Lanka that flourished from the 15th to the 16th century and became a major center of politics, trade, and Buddhism before its decline and partition.
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E.
Mewar royal dynasty
The Mewar royal dynasty is one of India’s oldest ruling lineages, historically centered in present-day Rajasthan and renowned for its Rajput warrior heritage and patronage of art and architecture.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
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: House of Dinajara (Kandyan royal line) Description of subject: The House of Dinajara was a Kandyan royal lineage in Sri Lanka that ruled the Kingdom of Kandy before the ascension of the South Indian–origin Nayakkar dynasty.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
House of Dinajara (Kandyan royal line)
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House of Dinajara (Kandyan royal line)
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subject surface form:
House of Dinajara
this entity surface form:
Kandyan royal line