Smriti
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Smriti is a body of later Hindu sacred literature, including texts like the epics and law codes, that is considered human-authored and traditionally distinguished from the more authoritative, revealed scriptures known as Shruti.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Smriti canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4782056 — 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: Smriti Context triple: [Shruti, contrastedWith, Smriti]
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A.
Madhavi
Madhavi is a celebrated courtesan and pivotal literary figure in ancient Tamil epic tradition, prominently featured in the Sangam-era works Silappatikaram and its sequel Manimekalai.
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B.
Sucharita
Sucharita is a central female character in Rabindranath Tagore’s Bengali novel "Gora," known for her introspective nature and evolving views on identity, religion, and social norms.
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C.
Shakuntala
Shakuntala is a legendary heroine in ancient Indian literature, best known as the virtuous and beautiful protagonist of Kalidasa’s classical Sanskrit play "Abhijnanashakuntalam."
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D.
Sumitra
Sumitra is a queen of Ayodhya in the Hindu epic Ramayana, known as one of King Dasharatha’s wives and the mother of the princes Lakshmana and Shatrughna.
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E.
Shruti
Shruti is the body of divinely revealed Hindu sacred knowledge, encompassing the Vedas and considered the highest authoritative scripture in Hinduism.
- 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: Smriti Target entity description: Smriti is a body of later Hindu sacred literature, including texts like the epics and law codes, that is considered human-authored and traditionally distinguished from the more authoritative, revealed scriptures known as Shruti.
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A.
Madhavi
Madhavi is a celebrated courtesan and pivotal literary figure in ancient Tamil epic tradition, prominently featured in the Sangam-era works Silappatikaram and its sequel Manimekalai.
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B.
Sucharita
Sucharita is a central female character in Rabindranath Tagore’s Bengali novel "Gora," known for her introspective nature and evolving views on identity, religion, and social norms.
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C.
Shakuntala
Shakuntala is a legendary heroine in ancient Indian literature, best known as the virtuous and beautiful protagonist of Kalidasa’s classical Sanskrit play "Abhijnanashakuntalam."
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D.
Sumitra
Sumitra is a queen of Ayodhya in the Hindu epic Ramayana, known as one of King Dasharatha’s wives and the mother of the princes Lakshmana and Shatrughna.
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E.
Shruti
Shruti is the body of divinely revealed Hindu sacred knowledge, encompassing the Vedas and considered the highest authoritative scripture in Hinduism.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Hindu sacred literature category
ⓘ
religious text corpus ⓘ source of Hindu religious law ⓘ |
| authoritativeStatusComparedToShruti | less authoritative ⓘ |
| authoritySource | human sages and tradition ⓘ |
| categoryWithin | Hindu scriptures NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| considered |
human-authored
ⓘ
remembered tradition ⓘ |
| contrastWith | Shruti NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distinguishedFrom |
Upaniṣads
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Vedas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| epistemicStatusInTradition | derivative of Shruti ⓘ |
| etymologyFromSanskritRoot | smṛ (to remember) ⓘ |
| function |
codification of religious duties (dharma)
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codification of social norms ⓘ guidance on ethics and conduct ⓘ guidance on law and jurisprudence ⓘ guidance on rites and rituals ⓘ |
| historicalDevelopment | composed over many centuries in ancient and classical India ⓘ |
| includesTextType |
Dharmasūtra
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Dharmaśāstra (law codes) NERFINISHED ⓘ Gṛhyasūtra NERFINISHED ⓘ Itihasa (epics) ⓘ Nītiśāstra (ethical treatises) NERFINISHED ⓘ Purāṇa ⓘ Smārta ritual texts ⓘ |
| includesWork |
Bhagavad Gītā
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mahābhārata NERFINISHED ⓘ Manusmṛti NERFINISHED ⓘ Nārada Smṛti NERFINISHED ⓘ Rāmāyaṇa NERFINISHED ⓘ Viṣṇu Smṛti NERFINISHED ⓘ Yājñavalkya Smṛti NERFINISHED ⓘ various Purāṇas ⓘ |
| influenceOn |
social organization in traditional Hindu society
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traditional Hindu law (Hindu personal law) ⓘ |
| language | Sanskrit ⓘ |
| normativeStatus | binding when not contradicting Shruti ⓘ |
| religiousTradition | Hinduism ⓘ |
| scope |
civil law
ⓘ
criminal law ⓘ family law ⓘ inheritance rules ⓘ penance and expiation ⓘ |
| temporalStatus | later than Vedic Shruti ⓘ |
| transmission |
later written down
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originally oral ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Hindu legal scholars
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Hindu ritual specialists ⓘ Hindu theologians ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Smriti Description of subject: Smriti is a body of later Hindu sacred literature, including texts like the epics and law codes, that is considered human-authored and traditionally distinguished from the more authoritative, revealed scriptures known as Shruti.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Shruti