Virata
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Virata is a king in the Indian epic Mahabharata, known for sheltering the Pandavas during their year of incognito exile and later allying with them in the Kurukshetra war.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Virata canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4515567 — 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: Virata Context triple: [Pandavas, supportedBy, Virata]
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A.
Dhawan
Dhawan is a common Indian surname, particularly found among Punjabi communities, associated with various notable figures in fields such as entertainment, sports, and public life.
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B.
Arjun Tendulkar
Arjun Tendulkar is an Indian cricketer and left-arm fast bowler who has played domestic cricket for Mumbai and Goa and is the son of legendary batsman Sachin Tendulkar.
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C.
MS Dhoni
MS Dhoni is a legendary Indian cricketer and World Cup–winning captain renowned for his calm leadership, explosive batting, and exceptional wicketkeeping.
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D.
Rohit Sharma
Rohit Sharma is an Indian international cricketer renowned as one of the most prolific modern-day opening batsmen and the captain of the Indian national team across formats.
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E.
Sukumar
Sukumar is a prominent Indian film director and screenwriter known for his psychologically layered storytelling and stylish Telugu-language films in the Tollywood industry.
- 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: Virata Target entity description: Virata is a king in the Indian epic Mahabharata, known for sheltering the Pandavas during their year of incognito exile and later allying with them in the Kurukshetra war.
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A.
Dhawan
Dhawan is a common Indian surname, particularly found among Punjabi communities, associated with various notable figures in fields such as entertainment, sports, and public life.
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B.
Arjun Tendulkar
Arjun Tendulkar is an Indian cricketer and left-arm fast bowler who has played domestic cricket for Mumbai and Goa and is the son of legendary batsman Sachin Tendulkar.
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C.
Ashwin
Ashwin is a person who is followed by Kartik, suggesting Ashwin may be someone Kartik admires or keeps up with.
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D.
MS Dhoni
MS Dhoni is a legendary Indian cricketer and World Cup–winning captain renowned for his calm leadership, explosive batting, and exceptional wicketkeeping.
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E.
Rohit Sharma
Rohit Sharma is an Indian international cricketer renowned as one of the most prolific modern-day opening batsmen and the captain of the Indian national team across formats.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
character in the Mahabharata
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mythological king ⓘ |
| alliedInWar | Kurukshetra War NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| alliedWith | Pandavas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithEpic | Mahabharata NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| courtLocationTraditionallyIdentifiedWith | Viratnagar (modern Bairat, Rajasthan) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| daughterMarriedTo | Abhimanyu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employedIncognito |
Arjuna as dance teacher Brihannala
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Bhima as cook and wrestler Ballava ⓘ Nakula as horse-keeper Granthika ⓘ Sahadeva as cowherd Tantipala NERFINISHED ⓘ Yudhishthira as court dice-player Kanka ⓘ |
| fatherOf |
Sankha
NERFINISHED
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Satanika NERFINISHED ⓘ Shveta NERFINISHED ⓘ Sutanu NERFINISHED ⓘ Uttara NERFINISHED ⓘ Uttaraa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gaveDaughterInMarriageTo | Arjuna NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| helpedBy | Arjuna in defending Matsya ⓘ |
| kingdomAttackedBy | Kaurava forces ⓘ |
| kingdomRaidedBy | Kauravas for cattle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| maternalGrandfatherOf | Parikshit NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nameInSanskrit | Virāṭa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relatedByMarriageTo | Arjuna NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| rulesOver | Matsya kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sheltered | Pandavas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| shelteredAt | Virata’s court in Matsya ⓘ |
| shelteredDuring | thirteenth year of Pandavas’ exile ⓘ |
| sideInKurukshetraWar | Pandava side ⓘ |
| spouse | Sudarshana NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| supportedBy | Matsya army NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| title | King of Matsya NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| unknowinglySheltered |
Arjuna
NERFINISHED
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Bhima NERFINISHED ⓘ Nakula NERFINISHED ⓘ Sahadeva NERFINISHED ⓘ Yudhishthira 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: Virata Description of subject: Virata is a king in the Indian epic Mahabharata, known for sheltering the Pandavas during their year of incognito exile and later allying with them in the Kurukshetra war.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.