Mallikarjuna Swamy
E523840
Mallikarjuna Swamy is a revered form of the Hindu god Shiva, worshipped as one of the twelve Jyotirlingas and a major Shaivite deity in South India.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mallikarjuna Swamy canonical | 1 |
| Nageswarar | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5467962 — 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: Mallikarjuna Swamy Context triple: [Srisailam Temple, primaryDeity, Mallikarjuna Swamy]
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A.
Allasani Peddana
Allasani Peddana was a renowned 16th-century Telugu poet, often honored as the "Andhra Kavita Pitamaha" (grandfather of Telugu poetry) for his seminal contributions to classical Telugu literature.
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B.
Kuppali Venkatappa Puttappa
Kuppali Venkatappa Puttappa, popularly known by his pen name Kuvempu, was a renowned Indian Kannada writer, poet, and Jnanpith Award laureate regarded as one of the greatest literary figures in Kannada literature.
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C.
Tiruvellore Thattai Krishnamachari
Tiruvellore Thattai Krishnamachari was an influential Indian politician and economist who served as Finance Minister of India and played a key role in shaping the country’s early post-independence economic policies.
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D.
Ishvarakrishna
Ishvarakrishna was an influential Indian philosopher best known for composing the *Samkhyakarika*, the foundational classical text of the Samkhya school of Hindu philosophy.
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E.
Chandrashekhara Kambara
Chandrashekhara Kambara is a renowned Indian Kannada poet, playwright, folklorist, and Jnanpith Award–winning writer known for his contributions to modern Kannada literature and theatre.
- 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: Mallikarjuna Swamy Target entity description: Mallikarjuna Swamy is a revered form of the Hindu god Shiva, worshipped as one of the twelve Jyotirlingas and a major Shaivite deity in South India.
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A.
Allasani Peddana
Allasani Peddana was a renowned 16th-century Telugu poet, often honored as the "Andhra Kavita Pitamaha" (grandfather of Telugu poetry) for his seminal contributions to classical Telugu literature.
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B.
Kuppali Venkatappa Puttappa
Kuppali Venkatappa Puttappa, popularly known by his pen name Kuvempu, was a renowned Indian Kannada writer, poet, and Jnanpith Award laureate regarded as one of the greatest literary figures in Kannada literature.
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C.
Tiruvellore Thattai Krishnamachari
Tiruvellore Thattai Krishnamachari was an influential Indian politician and economist who served as Finance Minister of India and played a key role in shaping the country’s early post-independence economic policies.
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D.
Ishvarakrishna
Ishvarakrishna was an influential Indian philosopher best known for composing the *Samkhyakarika*, the foundational classical text of the Samkhya school of Hindu philosophy.
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E.
Chandrashekhara Kambara
Chandrashekhara Kambara is a renowned Indian Kannada poet, playwright, folklorist, and Jnanpith Award–winning writer known for his contributions to modern Kannada literature and theatre.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Hindu deity
ⓘ
Jyotirlinga ⓘ form of Shiva ⓘ |
| associatedGoddess | Bhramaramba Devi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithMountain | Srisailam hill NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithMythology | Puranic legends of Shiva and Parvati ⓘ |
| associatedWithRegion | South India NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithRiver | Krishna River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| category |
Forms of Shiva
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Hindu gods and goddesses ⓘ Jyotirlinga deities ⓘ |
| consort | Goddess Bhramaramba NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| deityType | Shaivite deity ⓘ |
| epithetOf | Shiva NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAttribute |
Jyotirlinga manifestation of Shiva
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
revered form of Shiva ⓘ |
| hasFestival |
Karthika Deepam
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Maha Shivaratri NERFINISHED ⓘ Navaratri NERFINISHED ⓘ Ugadi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRitual |
Abhishekam
ⓘ
Archana NERFINISHED ⓘ Rudrabhishek NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSacredSite | Srisailam Mallikarjuna Temple NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| identifiedWith | Shiva NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isOneOf | twelve Jyotirlingas ⓘ |
| languageOfWorship |
Kannada
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sanskrit ⓘ Telugu ⓘ |
| majorPilgrimageSiteAt | Srisailam NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| majorTradition | Shaivism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | twelve Jyotirlinga shrines of Shiva ⓘ |
| pilgrimageCircuit | Pancharama and other Shaivite circuits in South India (in broader Shaivite practice) ⓘ |
| religion | Hinduism ⓘ |
| residesInTemple | Mallikarjuna Jyotirlinga Temple, Srisailam NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| templeCountry | India NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| templeLocatedIn | Srisailam NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| templeState | Andhra Pradesh NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| title | Lord of the jasmine (Mallika + Arjuna) in some interpretations NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| veneratedAs | protector deity of Srisailam region ⓘ |
| worshipForm | lingam ⓘ |
| worshippedAs | form of the god Shiva ⓘ |
| worshippedBy |
Hindus
ⓘ
Shaivites NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| worshippedIn | South India NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Mallikarjuna Swamy Description of subject: Mallikarjuna Swamy is a revered form of the Hindu god Shiva, worshipped as one of the twelve Jyotirlingas and a major Shaivite deity in South India.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Nageswarar