Parshvanatha
E532061
Parshvanatha is the 23rd Tirthankara in Jainism, revered as a major spiritual teacher and ascetic whose teachings significantly shaped the Jain religious tradition.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Parshvanatha canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5558509 — 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: Parshvanatha Context triple: [Girnar Jain temples, dedicatedTo, Parshvanatha]
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A.
Rishabhanatha
Rishabhanatha is revered in Jainism as the first Tirthankara of the current time cycle and a primordial spiritual teacher who established key aspects of civilization and religious practice.
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B.
Mahavira
Mahavira was the 24th and last Tirthankara of Jainism, revered as a great spiritual teacher who revitalized and systematized the Jain religious tradition.
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C.
Matsyendranath
Matsyendranath is a revered early master of Hatha and Tantra yoga, traditionally regarded as the founder of the Nath yogi lineage and guru of Gorakhnath.
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D.
Shurasena
Shurasena was an ancient Yadava king of the Vrishni clan, known in Hindu tradition as the grandfather of Krishna and a prominent ruler in the Mahabharata era.
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E.
Kashyapa
Kashyapa is a revered Vedic sage and progenitor in Hindu mythology, regarded as one of the ancient rishis and a patriarch of many gods, demons, and beings.
- 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: Parshvanatha Target entity description: Parshvanatha is the 23rd Tirthankara in Jainism, revered as a major spiritual teacher and ascetic whose teachings significantly shaped the Jain religious tradition.
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A.
Rishabhanatha
Rishabhanatha is revered in Jainism as the first Tirthankara of the current time cycle and a primordial spiritual teacher who established key aspects of civilization and religious practice.
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B.
Mahavira
Mahavira was the 24th and last Tirthankara of Jainism, revered as a great spiritual teacher who revitalized and systematized the Jain religious tradition.
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C.
Matsyendranath
Matsyendranath is a revered early master of Hatha and Tantra yoga, traditionally regarded as the founder of the Nath yogi lineage and guru of Gorakhnath.
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D.
Shurasena
Shurasena was an ancient Yadava king of the Vrishni clan, known in Hindu tradition as the grandfather of Krishna and a prominent ruler in the Mahabharata era.
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E.
Kashyapa
Kashyapa is a revered Vedic sage and progenitor in Hindu mythology, regarded as one of the ancient rishis and a patriarch of many gods, demons, and beings.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Jain religious leader
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Tirthankara ⓘ spiritual teacher ⓘ |
| associatedColor | blue ⓘ |
| associatedSymbol |
serpent
ⓘ
snake hood ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
ascetic discipline
ⓘ
four-fold restraints ⓘ |
| attainedKevalaJnana | true ⓘ |
| attainedMoksha | true ⓘ |
| birthCountry | India NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Kashi
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Varanasi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthRegion | Uttar Pradesh NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| category | Jain Tirthankaras NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dynasty | Ikshvaku dynasty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | pre-Mahavira Jain tradition ⓘ |
| father | Ashvasena NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| honorificTitle |
Bhagwan Parshvanath
NERFINISHED
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Lord Parshvanatha NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| iconographicFeature |
lotus pedestal
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serpent canopy over head ⓘ |
| influenced |
Mahavira
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
later Jain monastic codes ⓘ |
| languageOfScriptures | Prakrit (attributed) ⓘ |
| majorPilgrimageSite |
Karataka Parshvanath
NERFINISHED
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Keshariya Parshvanath NERFINISHED ⓘ Khartar Gachchha temples NERFINISHED ⓘ Parasnath Hill NERFINISHED ⓘ Shankheshwar Parshvanath NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mokshaPlace | Shikharji NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mokshaRegion | Parasnath Hill NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mokshaState | Jharkhand NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mother | Vama NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| predecessorTirthankara | Neminatha NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Jainism ⓘ |
| royalStatus | prince ⓘ |
| successorTirthankara | Mahavira NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| teachingEmphasis |
chastity
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non-possession ⓘ non-stealing ⓘ non-violence ⓘ truth ⓘ |
| tirthankaraNumber | 23 ⓘ |
| tradition |
Digambara tradition
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Śvetāmbara tradition ⓘ |
| veneratedIn |
Digambara Jainism
NERFINISHED
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Svetambara Jainism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| worshipForm | idol worship in temples ⓘ |
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: Parshvanatha Description of subject: Parshvanatha is the 23rd Tirthankara in Jainism, revered as a major spiritual teacher and ascetic whose teachings significantly shaped the Jain religious tradition.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.