Mandala
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Mandala is a 1983 electronic music album by Japanese composer Kitaro, known for its atmospheric, synthesizer-driven soundscapes characteristic of his New Age style.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mandala canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5692085 — 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: Mandala Context triple: [Kitaro, notableWork, Mandala]
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A.
Womb Realm Mandala
The Womb Realm Mandala is a central esoteric diagram in Shingon Buddhism that symbolically depicts the compassionate, nurturing aspect of the cosmos centered on the Buddha Mahavairocana and numerous enlightened beings.
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B.
Chakra Yantra
Chakra Yantra is an astronomical instrument at Jaipur’s Jantar Mantar observatory used to measure the position and movement of celestial bodies with high precision.
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C.
Nagamandala
Nagamandala is a traditional South Indian ritualistic performance and folk dance-drama centered on serpent worship, especially prevalent in the Tulu-speaking regions of Karnataka.
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D.
Sri Yantra
Sri Yantra is a complex and highly revered Hindu geometric diagram composed of interlocking triangles and lotus patterns, used as a tool for meditation, worship, and the representation of cosmic unity and divine feminine energy.
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E.
Yantra
Yantra is a major river in northern Bulgaria that flows through cities like Veliko Tarnovo before joining the Danube.
- 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: Mandala Target entity description: Mandala is a 1983 electronic music album by Japanese composer Kitaro, known for its atmospheric, synthesizer-driven soundscapes characteristic of his New Age style.
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A.
Womb Realm Mandala
The Womb Realm Mandala is a central esoteric diagram in Shingon Buddhism that symbolically depicts the compassionate, nurturing aspect of the cosmos centered on the Buddha Mahavairocana and numerous enlightened beings.
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B.
Chakra Yantra
Chakra Yantra is an astronomical instrument at Jaipur’s Jantar Mantar observatory used to measure the position and movement of celestial bodies with high precision.
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C.
Nagamandala
Nagamandala is a traditional South Indian ritualistic performance and folk dance-drama centered on serpent worship, especially prevalent in the Tulu-speaking regions of Karnataka.
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D.
Sri Yantra
Sri Yantra is a complex and highly revered Hindu geometric diagram composed of interlocking triangles and lotus patterns, used as a tool for meditation, worship, and the representation of cosmic unity and divine feminine energy.
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E.
Yantra
Yantra is a major river in northern Bulgaria that flows through cities like Veliko Tarnovo before joining the Danube.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
music album
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studio album ⓘ |
| artist | Kitaro NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| composer | Kitaro NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Japan ⓘ |
| creatorNationality | Japanese ⓘ |
| genre |
New Age music
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electronic music ⓘ |
| hasArtistRole |
Kitaro as composer
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Kitaro as performer ⓘ Kitaro as producer ⓘ |
| hasMusicalStyle |
ambient
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meditative ⓘ spiritual ⓘ |
| hasType | full-length album ⓘ |
| language | instrumental ⓘ |
| notableFor |
atmospheric electronic soundscapes
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use of synthesizers ⓘ |
| originalReleaseYear | 1983 ⓘ |
| partOf | Kitaro discography NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| performer | Kitaro NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryInstrumentation | synthesizer ⓘ |
| producer | Kitaro NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDecade | 1980s ⓘ |
| soundCharacteristic |
atmospheric
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synthesizer-driven soundscapes ⓘ |
| styleCharacteristic | Kitaro's New Age style ⓘ |
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: Mandala Description of subject: Mandala is a 1983 electronic music album by Japanese composer Kitaro, known for its atmospheric, synthesizer-driven soundscapes characteristic of his New Age style.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.