Shaastra
E336796
Shaastra is the annual student-run technical festival of IIT Madras, known for its large-scale engineering competitions, workshops, and lectures.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Shaastra canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3197809 — 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: Shaastra Context triple: [Indian Institute of Technology Madras, hasTechnicalFestival, Shaastra]
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A.
Unnatamsa Yantra
Unnatamsa Yantra is an astronomical instrument at Jaipur’s Jantar Mantar observatory used to measure the altitude of celestial bodies with high precision.
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B.
Abhinavabhāratī
Abhinavabhāratī is an influential Sanskrit commentary on Bharata Muni’s Nāṭyaśāstra, renowned for its sophisticated aesthetic and philosophical analysis of Indian dramaturgy and rasa theory.
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C.
Swayam
Swayam is an Indian government-backed online learning platform that provides free Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) from schools, colleges, and universities across the country.
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D.
Pragyan
Pragyan is the six-wheeled lunar rover of India’s Chandrayaan-3 mission, designed to explore and analyze the Moon’s south polar region.
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E.
Rama Yantra
Rama Yantra is a large cylindrical astronomical instrument at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi used for measuring the altitude and azimuth of celestial bodies.
- 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: Shaastra Target entity description: Shaastra is the annual student-run technical festival of IIT Madras, known for its large-scale engineering competitions, workshops, and lectures.
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A.
Unnatamsa Yantra
Unnatamsa Yantra is an astronomical instrument at Jaipur’s Jantar Mantar observatory used to measure the altitude of celestial bodies with high precision.
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B.
Abhinavabhāratī
Abhinavabhāratī is an influential Sanskrit commentary on Bharata Muni’s Nāṭyaśāstra, renowned for its sophisticated aesthetic and philosophical analysis of Indian dramaturgy and rasa theory.
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C.
Swayam
Swayam is an Indian government-backed online learning platform that provides free Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) from schools, colleges, and universities across the country.
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D.
Pragyan
Pragyan is the six-wheeled lunar rover of India’s Chandrayaan-3 mission, designed to explore and analyze the Moon’s south polar region.
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E.
Rama Yantra
Rama Yantra is a large cylindrical astronomical instrument at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi used for measuring the altitude and azimuth of celestial bodies.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
annual event
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student-run festival ⓘ technical festival ⓘ |
| activitiesInclude |
coding contests
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design and build competitions ⓘ exhibitions ⓘ guest lectures ⓘ paper presentations ⓘ robotics events ⓘ technical competitions ⓘ workshops ⓘ |
| affiliation |
Indian Institute of Technology Madras
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surface form:
IIT Madras
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| country | India ⓘ |
| field |
engineering
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science ⓘ technology ⓘ |
| focus |
engineering
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innovation ⓘ science and technology ⓘ |
| frequency | annual ⓘ |
| genre | technical festival ⓘ |
| hasComponent |
competitions
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exhibitions ⓘ lectures ⓘ professional shows ⓘ social initiatives ⓘ workshops ⓘ |
| hasReputationFor |
high organisational standards
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strong technical content ⓘ |
| hostInstitution |
Indian Institute of Technology Madras
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surface form:
IIT Madras
|
| hostInstitutionType | Institute of Technology ⓘ |
| language |
English
ⓘ
Hindi ⓘ Tamil ⓘ |
| location |
Chennai
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Tamil Nadu ⓘ |
| mainVenue |
Indian Institute of Technology Madras
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surface form:
IIT Madras campus
|
| notableFor |
being entirely student-run
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large-scale engineering competitions ⓘ lectures by eminent personalities ⓘ technical workshops ⓘ |
| organisationalStructure | student-run teams ⓘ |
| organisedBy |
Indian Institute of Technology Madras
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students of IIT Madras ⓘ |
| region | South India ⓘ |
| targetAudience |
college students
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school students ⓘ technology enthusiasts ⓘ |
| typicalMonthHeld | January ⓘ |
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: Shaastra Description of subject: Shaastra is the annual student-run technical festival of IIT Madras, known for its large-scale engineering competitions, workshops, and lectures.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.