Linbaba
E361948
Linbaba is the protagonist and narrator of Gregory David Roberts' novel "Shantaram," an Australian fugitive who builds a new life in the underworld of Bombay.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Linbaba canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3474939 — 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: Linbaba Context triple: [Lin, hasAlias, Linbaba]
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A.
Boorga
Boorga is a small rural locality within the Hay Shire local government area in New South Wales, Australia.
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B.
Bisher Bashi
Bisher Bashi is a renowned Bengali poetry collection by Kazi Nazrul Islam, noted for its intense emotional expression and revolutionary themes.
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C.
Marichi
Marichi is a revered Vedic sage (one of the Saptarishi) regarded as a mind-born son of Brahma and an important progenitor in Hindu cosmology.
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D.
Kanuma
Kanuma is a regional harvest festival celebrated mainly in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana as part of the multi-day Makar Sankranti festivities, focusing on cattle worship and agricultural prosperity.
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E.
Hamutal
Hamutal was a queen of Judah, known as the mother of the last king of Judah, Zedekiah, during the final years before the Babylonian exile.
- 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: Linbaba Target entity description: Linbaba is the protagonist and narrator of Gregory David Roberts' novel "Shantaram," an Australian fugitive who builds a new life in the underworld of Bombay.
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A.
Boorga
Boorga is a small rural locality within the Hay Shire local government area in New South Wales, Australia.
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B.
Bisher Bashi
Bisher Bashi is a renowned Bengali poetry collection by Kazi Nazrul Islam, noted for its intense emotional expression and revolutionary themes.
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C.
Marichi
Marichi is a revered Vedic sage (one of the Saptarishi) regarded as a mind-born son of Brahma and an important progenitor in Hindu cosmology.
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D.
Kanuma
Kanuma is a regional harvest festival celebrated mainly in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana as part of the multi-day Makar Sankranti festivities, focusing on cattle worship and agricultural prosperity.
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E.
Hamutal
Hamutal was a queen of Judah, known as the mother of the last king of Judah, Zedekiah, during the final years before the Babylonian exile.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
literary character ⓘ |
| adaptedIn | Shantaram television adaptation ⓘ |
| alias |
Lin
ⓘ
Lindsay ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Bombay underworld
ⓘ
Colaba ⓘ Leopold Cafe ⓘ |
| basedOn | Gregory David Roberts ⓘ |
| citizenship | Australian ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Australia ⓘ |
| createdBy | Gregory David Roberts ⓘ |
| criminalStatus | escaped convict ⓘ |
| firstAppearance |
Shantaram
ⓘ
surface form:
Shantaram (2003 novel)
|
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasEnemy | Abdel Khader Khan’s rivals ⓘ |
| hasFriend |
Abdel Khader Khan
ⓘ
Karla Saaranen ⓘ Prabaker ⓘ |
| helpsCommunity | treats slum dwellers ⓘ |
| imprisonedIn | Arthur Road Jail ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
English
ⓘ
Hindi ⓘ Marathi ⓘ |
| medium | literature ⓘ |
| narratorOf | Shantaram ⓘ |
| nationalityInStory | Australian ⓘ |
| occupation |
criminal
ⓘ
forger ⓘ fugitive ⓘ slum medic ⓘ smuggler ⓘ |
| participatesIn |
Afghan war effort
ⓘ
Mumbai mafia ⓘ
surface form:
Bombay mafia operations
counterfeiting ⓘ smuggling ⓘ |
| protagonistOf | Shantaram ⓘ |
| residence |
Mumbai
ⓘ
surface form:
Bombay
Mumbai slums ⓘ |
| roleIn | novel Shantaram ⓘ |
| settingOfActivities |
Afghanistan
ⓘ
India ⓘ |
| themeInvolvement |
crime
ⓘ
identity ⓘ love ⓘ redemption ⓘ spirituality ⓘ |
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: Linbaba Description of subject: Linbaba is the protagonist and narrator of Gregory David Roberts' novel "Shantaram," an Australian fugitive who builds a new life in the underworld of Bombay.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.