Gita Patel
E566854
Gita Patel is the mother of Pi Patel, the protagonist of Yann Martel’s novel "Life of Pi," and is portrayed as a compassionate and grounding influence in his life.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Gita Patel canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5778597 — 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: Gita Patel Context triple: [Piscine Molitor Patel, parent, Gita Patel]
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A.
Rashmi Patel
Rashmi Patel is a personal name shared by multiple individuals, typically of Indian origin, and may refer to various professionals or public figures.
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B.
Palak Patel
Palak Patel is a film producer known for working on major Hollywood fantasy and action films, including "Snow White and the Huntsman."
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C.
Jhaverba Patel
Jhaverba Patel was the wife of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, a key leader of the Indian independence movement and India’s first Deputy Prime Minister.
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D.
Persis Khambatta
Persis Khambatta was an Indian model and actress best known internationally for her role as Lieutenant Ilia in "Star Trek: The Motion Picture."
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E.
Sheila Dikshit
Sheila Dikshit was a prominent Indian National Congress politician who served as the long-time Chief Minister of Delhi, overseeing significant urban development and governance reforms in the capital.
- 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: Gita Patel Target entity description: Gita Patel is the mother of Pi Patel, the protagonist of Yann Martel’s novel "Life of Pi," and is portrayed as a compassionate and grounding influence in his life.
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A.
Rashmi Patel
Rashmi Patel is a personal name shared by multiple individuals, typically of Indian origin, and may refer to various professionals or public figures.
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B.
Palak Patel
Palak Patel is a film producer known for working on major Hollywood fantasy and action films, including "Snow White and the Huntsman."
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C.
Jhaverba Patel
Jhaverba Patel was the wife of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, a key leader of the Indian independence movement and India’s first Deputy Prime Minister.
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D.
Persis Khambatta
Persis Khambatta was an Indian model and actress best known internationally for her role as Lieutenant Ilia in "Star Trek: The Motion Picture."
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E.
Sheila Dikshit
Sheila Dikshit was a prominent Indian National Congress politician who served as the long-time Chief Minister of Delhi, overseeing significant urban development and governance reforms in the capital.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
literary character ⓘ |
| adaptedIn | Life of Pi (2012 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Life of Pi
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Life of Pi (novel) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Patel family zoo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
compassionate
ⓘ
grounded ⓘ practical ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | India (fictional setting) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| creator | Yann Martel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Indian (fictional) ⓘ |
| familyName | Patel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Life of Pi universe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstPublicationOfWork | 2001 ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| givenName | Gita NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasChild |
Pi Patel
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Piscine Molitor Patel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSpouse | Santosh Patel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | novel ⓘ |
| motherOf |
Pi Patel
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ravi Patel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nameInFull | Gita Patel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | emotional anchor for Pi Patel ⓘ |
| occupation | zookeeper's wife ⓘ |
| portrayedInFilmBy | Tabu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Pi Patel
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ravi Patel NERFINISHED ⓘ Santosh Patel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Hindu (implied in novel) ⓘ |
| residence | Pondicherry (fictional setting) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| roleInWork |
grounding influence in Pi Patel's life
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mother of the protagonist ⓘ |
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: Gita Patel Description of subject: Gita Patel is the mother of Pi Patel, the protagonist of Yann Martel’s novel "Life of Pi," and is portrayed as a compassionate and grounding influence in his life.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Life of Pi