Shankar
E386083
Shankar is the surname of the renowned musical family that includes legendary sitar virtuoso Ravi Shankar and his daughter, singer-songwriter Norah Jones.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Shankar canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3767558 — 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: Shankar Context triple: [Norah Jones, familyName, Shankar]
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A.
Shankar
Shankar is a prominent Indian film director best known for his big-budget, socially themed blockbuster movies in Tamil cinema.
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B.
Shyam
Shyam is the young protagonist of the classic Marathi autobiographical novel "Shyamchi Aai," depicting his deep bond with his mother and his moral and emotional growth.
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C.
Raman
Raman is a common Indian surname most famously associated with physicist C. V. Raman, a Nobel laureate known for discovering the Raman effect in light scattering.
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D.
Subhash
Subhash is one of the central protagonists of Jhumpa Lahiri’s novel "The Lowland," depicted as a thoughtful, reserved brother whose life diverges sharply from his more radical sibling’s amid political turmoil in India.
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E.
Shabara Svamin
Shabara Svamin was an influential early Indian philosopher and commentator whose work on the Mimamsa school’s foundational texts significantly shaped Hindu ritual and hermeneutic thought.
- 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: Shankar Target entity description: Shankar is the surname of the renowned musical family that includes legendary sitar virtuoso Ravi Shankar and his daughter, singer-songwriter Norah Jones.
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A.
Shankar
Shankar is a prominent Indian film director best known for his big-budget, socially themed blockbuster movies in Tamil cinema.
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B.
Shyam
Shyam is the young protagonist of the classic Marathi autobiographical novel "Shyamchi Aai," depicting his deep bond with his mother and his moral and emotional growth.
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C.
Raman
Raman is a common Indian surname most famously associated with physicist C. V. Raman, a Nobel laureate known for discovering the Raman effect in light scattering.
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D.
Subhash
Subhash is one of the central protagonists of Jhumpa Lahiri’s novel "The Lowland," depicted as a thoughtful, reserved brother whose life diverges sharply from his more radical sibling’s amid political turmoil in India.
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E.
Shabara Svamin
Shabara Svamin was an influential early Indian philosopher and commentator whose work on the Mimamsa school’s foundational texts significantly shaped Hindu ritual and hermeneutic thought.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
family name
ⓘ
surname ⓘ |
| associatedWithDeity | Shiva ⓘ |
| category |
Hindu given names
ⓘ
Indian surnames ⓘ Sanskrit-language names ⓘ |
| culturalContext | Indian ⓘ |
| derivedFrom |
Shankara
ⓘ
surface form:
Śaṅkara
|
| genderAssociation | masculine ⓘ |
| hasVariant |
Sankar
ⓘ
Sankara ⓘ Shankara ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | Sanskrit ⓘ |
| languageOfUse |
Bengali
ⓘ
Hindi ⓘ Kannada ⓘ Malayalam ⓘ Tamil ⓘ Telugu ⓘ |
| meaning |
another name of the Hindu god Shiva
ⓘ
beneficent ⓘ bringer of prosperity ⓘ |
| notableBearer |
Anoushka Shankar
ⓘ
Lakshmi Shankar ⓘ Norah Jones ⓘ R. K. Shankar ⓘ Ravi Shankar ⓘ V. Shankar ⓘ |
| regionOfUse |
India
ⓘ
South Asia ⓘ |
| religiousContext | Hinduism ⓘ |
| scriptForm |
शंकर
ⓘ
Shankara ⓘ
surface form:
শংকর
Shankara ⓘ
surface form:
శంకర
Shankara ⓘ
surface form:
ಶಂಕರ
ശങ്കര ⓘ |
| usedAs |
given name
ⓘ
surname ⓘ |
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: Shankar Description of subject: Shankar is the surname of the renowned musical family that includes legendary sitar virtuoso Ravi Shankar and his daughter, singer-songwriter Norah Jones.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.