King of Lanka
E486049
King of Lanka is the mythological monarch of the island kingdom of Lanka in the Hindu epic Ramayana, most famously ruled by the demon-king Ravana.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| King of Lanka canonical | 2 |
| Emperor of Lanka | 1 |
| Prince of Lanka | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5010240 — 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 of Lanka Context triple: [Ravana, title, King of Lanka]
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A.
Senasammata Vikramabahu
Senasammata Vikramabahu was a late 15th-century Sri Lankan monarch who established and ruled the independent Kingdom of Kandy in the central highlands.
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B.
Bhuvanekabahu VII
Bhuvanekabahu VII was a 16th-century king of the Kingdom of Kotte in Sri Lanka, known for his reign during a period of increasing Portuguese influence on the island.
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C.
Vijaya
Vijaya was the principal royal and political center of the historical Champa kingdom in what is now central Vietnam.
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D.
Mayadunne of Sitawaka
Mayadunne of Sitawaka was a 16th-century Sri Lankan monarch who ruled the Kingdom of Sitawaka and became known for his fierce resistance against Portuguese colonial expansion on the island.
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E.
King of Kosala
The King of Kosala is a monarch from the ancient Indian kingdom of Kosala, known in Hindu epics as the royal consort of Queen Kausalya and father of Lord Rama.
- 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 of Lanka Target entity description: King of Lanka is the mythological monarch of the island kingdom of Lanka in the Hindu epic Ramayana, most famously ruled by the demon-king Ravana.
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A.
Senasammata Vikramabahu
Senasammata Vikramabahu was a late 15th-century Sri Lankan monarch who established and ruled the independent Kingdom of Kandy in the central highlands.
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B.
Bhuvanekabahu VII
Bhuvanekabahu VII was a 16th-century king of the Kingdom of Kotte in Sri Lanka, known for his reign during a period of increasing Portuguese influence on the island.
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C.
Vijaya
Vijaya was the principal royal and political center of the historical Champa kingdom in what is now central Vietnam.
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D.
Mayadunne of Sitawaka
Mayadunne of Sitawaka was a 16th-century Sri Lankan monarch who ruled the Kingdom of Sitawaka and became known for his fierce resistance against Portuguese colonial expansion on the island.
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E.
King of Kosala
The King of Kosala is a monarch from the ancient Indian kingdom of Kosala, known in Hindu epics as the royal consort of Queen Kausalya and father of Lord Rama.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional monarch
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mythological title ⓘ royal title ⓘ |
| appearsInEpic | Ramayana NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsInText | Valmiki Ramayana NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsInTradition | Hindu epic tradition ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Lanka
NERFINISHED
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Rakshasas ⓘ Ravana NERFINISHED ⓘ Vibhishana NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithPlace | Trikuta mountain (mythological) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conflictWith |
Rama
NERFINISHED
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Vanara army ⓘ |
| culture | Hindu ⓘ |
| governs | kingdom of Lanka NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageContext | Sanskrit literature ⓘ |
| laterBearer | Vibhishana NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInNarrative | island kingdom of Lanka ⓘ |
| mostFamousBearer | Ravana NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mythologicalRealm | Lanka NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableEvent |
abduction of Sita by its most famous bearer Ravana
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siege of Lanka by Rama NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| realmType | island kingdom ⓘ |
| religiousContext | Hinduism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| succession | passes from Ravana to Vibhishana ⓘ |
| titleIn |
Hindu mythology
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Ramayana 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 of Lanka Description of subject: King of Lanka is the mythological monarch of the island kingdom of Lanka in the Hindu epic Ramayana, most famously ruled by the demon-king Ravana.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.