King Suryavarman II
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King Suryavarman II was a 12th-century Khmer monarch of the Angkor Empire, renowned for his military expansion and for commissioning monumental temple architecture in present-day Cambodia.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Suryavarman II | 2 |
| King Suryavarman II canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4244599 — 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: King Suryavarman II Context triple: [Angkor Wat, builtBy, King Suryavarman II]
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A.
Hayam Wuruk
Hayam Wuruk was a 14th-century Javanese king whose reign marked the political and cultural zenith of the Majapahit Empire in maritime Southeast Asia.
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B.
Prince Sisowath Sirik Matak
Prince Sisowath Sirik Matak was a prominent Cambodian royal politician and conservative leader who played a central role in the country’s politics during the late 1960s and early 1970s, notably opposing Prince Norodom Sihanouk and aligning with the pro-U.S. Lon Nol regime.
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C.
King Ghezo
King Ghezo was a 19th-century ruler of the West African Kingdom of Dahomey known for military expansion, administrative reforms, and his complex role in the Atlantic slave trade.
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D.
Sri Vijaya Rajasinha
Sri Vijaya Rajasinha was an 18th-century king of Kandy in Sri Lanka, known as one of the early Nayakkar rulers who strengthened South Indian influence at the Kandyan court.
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E.
King Sri Jayanasa
King Sri Jayanasa was an early ruler of the Srivijaya kingdom in Sumatra, known for his role in establishing the empire’s power and promoting Buddhist-inspired welfare and prosperity.
- 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: King Suryavarman II Target entity description: King Suryavarman II was a 12th-century Khmer monarch of the Angkor Empire, renowned for his military expansion and for commissioning monumental temple architecture in present-day Cambodia.
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A.
Hayam Wuruk
Hayam Wuruk was a 14th-century Javanese king whose reign marked the political and cultural zenith of the Majapahit Empire in maritime Southeast Asia.
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B.
Prince Sisowath Sirik Matak
Prince Sisowath Sirik Matak was a prominent Cambodian royal politician and conservative leader who played a central role in the country’s politics during the late 1960s and early 1970s, notably opposing Prince Norodom Sihanouk and aligning with the pro-U.S. Lon Nol regime.
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C.
King Ghezo
King Ghezo was a 19th-century ruler of the West African Kingdom of Dahomey known for military expansion, administrative reforms, and his complex role in the Atlantic slave trade.
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D.
Sri Vijaya Rajasinha
Sri Vijaya Rajasinha was an 18th-century king of Kandy in Sri Lanka, known as one of the early Nayakkar rulers who strengthened South Indian influence at the Kandyan court.
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E.
King Sri Jayanasa
King Sri Jayanasa was an early ruler of the Srivijaya kingdom in Sumatra, known for his role in establishing the empire’s power and promoting Buddhist-inspired welfare and prosperity.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Khmer king
ⓘ
historical figure ⓘ monarch ⓘ |
| artStyle | Angkor Wat style ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Angkor
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Angkor Wat NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Khmer Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Angkor Wat (traditional attribution) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| capital | Angkor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| century | 12th century ⓘ |
| commissioned |
Angkor Wat
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Banteay Samre NERFINISHED ⓘ Chau Say Tevoda NERFINISHED ⓘ Thommanon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Khmer Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Khmer Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| depictedAs | Vishnu in royal iconography ⓘ |
| depictedIn | bas-reliefs at Angkor Wat ⓘ |
| devotedToDeity | Vishnu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dynasty | Mahidharapura dynasty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | Angkor period NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| expandedTerritoryTo |
parts of present-day Laos
ⓘ
parts of present-day Thailand ⓘ parts of present-day Vietnam ⓘ |
| foreignRelations | Song dynasty China NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| inscriptionLanguage | Sanskrit ⓘ |
| knownFor |
construction of Angkor Wat
ⓘ
military expansion of the Khmer Empire ⓘ temple building ⓘ |
| language | Old Khmer ⓘ |
| legacy |
association with Angkor Wat as national symbol of Cambodia
ⓘ
symbol of Khmer architectural achievement ⓘ |
| militaryCampaign |
campaigns against Champa
ⓘ
campaigns against Đại Việt ⓘ |
| patronOf |
Hindu temples
ⓘ
Khmer architecture NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| predecessor | Dharanindravarman I NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | present-day Cambodia ⓘ |
| reignEnd | c. 1150 ⓘ |
| reignStart | 1113 ⓘ |
| religion | Hinduism ⓘ |
| royalHouse | Khmer royal family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sentEmbassyTo | Song dynasty China NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| stateCult | Vaishnavism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| styleOfRule | centralized monarchy ⓘ |
| successor | Dharanindravarman II NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| title |
King of the Khmer Empire
ⓘ
Paramavishnuloka NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: King Suryavarman II Description of subject: King Suryavarman II was a 12th-century Khmer monarch of the Angkor Empire, renowned for his military expansion and for commissioning monumental temple architecture in present-day Cambodia.
Referenced by (3)
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this entity surface form:
Suryavarman II
this entity surface form:
Suryavarman II