The Mother
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The Mother, born Mirra Alfassa, was a spiritual collaborator of Sri Aurobindo and a central figure in Integral Yoga, revered as the spiritual head of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Pondicherry, India.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Mother canonical | 5 |
| La Mère | 1 |
| Most Revered Mother | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4516157 — 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: The Mother Context triple: [Sri Aurobindo Ashram, foundedBy, The Mother]
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The Mother
"The Mother" is a socialist realist novel by Polish writer Wanda Wasilewska that portrays working-class struggle and political awakening in pre-war Eastern Europe.
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The Mother
"The Mother" is a politically charged play by Bertolt Brecht that follows a working-class woman’s radicalization into socialist activism amid early 20th-century labor struggles.
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C.
The Mysterious Mother
The Mysterious Mother is a 1768 Gothic verse drama by Horace Walpole that explores dark themes of incest, guilt, and religious anxiety within an aristocratic family.
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The Daughter
The Daughter is a 2015 Australian drama film, adapted from Henrik Ibsen’s play "The Wild Duck," that explores buried family secrets and emotional fallout in a small town.
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Four Mothers
Four Mothers is a 1941 American drama film that continues the story of the Lemp family introduced in Four Daughters and its first sequel, Four Wives.
- 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: The Mother Target entity description: The Mother, born Mirra Alfassa, was a spiritual collaborator of Sri Aurobindo and a central figure in Integral Yoga, revered as the spiritual head of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Pondicherry, India.
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A.
The Mother
"The Mother" is a politically charged play by Bertolt Brecht that follows a working-class woman’s radicalization into socialist activism amid early 20th-century labor struggles.
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B.
The Mother
"The Mother" is a socialist realist novel by Polish writer Wanda Wasilewska that portrays working-class struggle and political awakening in pre-war Eastern Europe.
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C.
The Mysterious Mother
The Mysterious Mother is a 1768 Gothic verse drama by Horace Walpole that explores dark themes of incest, guilt, and religious anxiety within an aristocratic family.
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D.
The Daughter
The Daughter is a 2015 Australian drama film, adapted from Henrik Ibsen’s play "The Wild Duck," that explores buried family secrets and emotional fallout in a small town.
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E.
Four Mothers
Four Mothers is a 1941 American drama film that continues the story of the Lemp family introduced in Four Daughters and its first sequel, Four Wives.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
central figure in Integral Yoga
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philosopher ⓘ spiritual leader ⓘ writer ⓘ yogi ⓘ |
| activeYears | 1920-1973 ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Mirra Richard
NERFINISHED
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The Mother NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | Mirra Alfassa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| child | André Morisset NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| citizenship |
French
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Indian ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith | Sri Aurobindo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | France ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1878-02-21 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1973-11-17 ⓘ |
| ethnicOrigin | Egyptian Jewish ⓘ |
| father | Maurice Alfassa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| founded |
Auroville
NERFINISHED
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Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| influenced |
Auroville community
NERFINISHED
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Integral education ⓘ contemporary Integral Yoga practitioners ⓘ |
| knownFor |
being spiritual head of Sri Aurobindo Ashram
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development of Integral Yoga ⓘ founding Auroville ⓘ spiritual collaborator of Sri Aurobindo ⓘ |
| language |
English
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French ⓘ |
| met | Sri Aurobindo in 1914 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mother | Mathilde Ismalun NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| movement |
Integral Yoga
NERFINISHED
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Sri Aurobindo Ashram NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Paris
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surface form:
Paris, France
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| placeOfDeath | Pondicherry, India NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
founder of Auroville
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spiritual head of Sri Aurobindo Ashram ⓘ |
| religion | Integral Yoga NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence |
Algiers, Algeria
NERFINISHED
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Paris ⓘ
surface form:
Paris, France
Pondicherry, India NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| returnedToPondicherry | 1920 ⓘ |
| spiritualTradition | Vedanta-inspired Integral Yoga ⓘ |
| spouse | Paul Richard NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| wrote |
On Education
NERFINISHED
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Prayers and Meditations NERFINISHED ⓘ Questions and Answers NERFINISHED ⓘ Words of the Mother 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: The Mother Description of subject: The Mother, born Mirra Alfassa, was a spiritual collaborator of Sri Aurobindo and a central figure in Integral Yoga, revered as the spiritual head of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Pondicherry, India.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
La Mère
subject surface form:
Auroville
this entity surface form:
Most Revered Mother