Devundara Sri Jinaratana Nayaka Thera
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Devundara Sri Jinaratana Nayaka Thera is a prominent Sri Lankan Buddhist monk and religious leader known for his influential role in the development and administration of major Buddhist institutions.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Devundara Sri Jinaratana Nayaka Thera canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6315558 — 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: Devundara Sri Jinaratana Nayaka Thera Context triple: [Gangaramaya Temple, developedBy, Devundara Sri Jinaratana Nayaka Thera]
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A.
Hikkaduwe Sri Sumangala Nayaka Thera
Hikkaduwe Sri Sumangala Nayaka Thera was a prominent 19th-century Sri Lankan Buddhist monk and scholar who played a key role in the revival of Buddhism in Sri Lanka.
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B.
Mahinda Thera
Mahinda Thera was an Indian Buddhist monk traditionally credited with introducing Buddhism to Sri Lanka and playing a key role in establishing it as a major religion on the island.
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C.
Raghavendra Tirtha
Raghavendra Tirtha was a prominent 17th-century Hindu saint, philosopher, and theologian renowned for his influential commentaries and leadership within the Dvaita Vedanta tradition.
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D.
Somānanda
Somānanda was an early Kashmiri Śaiva philosopher and theologian whose non-dual Trika teachings helped lay the foundations for later thinkers like Abhinavagupta.
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E.
Mahendradatta
Mahendradatta was a Javanese queen and princess of the Isyana dynasty, known as the consort of King Udayana of Bali and the mother of King Airlangga of Java.
- 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: Devundara Sri Jinaratana Nayaka Thera Target entity description: Devundara Sri Jinaratana Nayaka Thera is a prominent Sri Lankan Buddhist monk and religious leader known for his influential role in the development and administration of major Buddhist institutions.
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A.
Hikkaduwe Sri Sumangala Nayaka Thera
Hikkaduwe Sri Sumangala Nayaka Thera was a prominent 19th-century Sri Lankan Buddhist monk and scholar who played a key role in the revival of Buddhism in Sri Lanka.
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B.
Mahinda Thera
Mahinda Thera was an Indian Buddhist monk traditionally credited with introducing Buddhism to Sri Lanka and playing a key role in establishing it as a major religion on the island.
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C.
Raghavendra Tirtha
Raghavendra Tirtha was a prominent 17th-century Hindu saint, philosopher, and theologian renowned for his influential commentaries and leadership within the Dvaita Vedanta tradition.
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D.
Somānanda
Somānanda was an early Kashmiri Śaiva philosopher and theologian whose non-dual Trika teachings helped lay the foundations for later thinkers like Abhinavagupta.
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E.
Mahendradatta
Mahendradatta was a Javanese queen and princess of the Isyana dynasty, known as the consort of King Udayana of Bali and the mother of King Airlangga of Java.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Buddhist monk
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Sri Lankan person ⓘ religious leader ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Sri Lanka NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Sinhalese people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Buddhist institutional development
ⓘ
Buddhist monastic administration ⓘ religious education ⓘ |
| hasRole | leader of Buddhist institutions in Sri Lanka ⓘ |
| honorificTitle |
Nayaka Thera
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Thera NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influenced |
Sri Lankan Buddhist laity
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Sri Lankan Buddhist monastic community ⓘ |
| knownAs | Devundara Sri Jinaratana Nayaka Thero NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | Sinhala ⓘ |
| movement | Theravada Buddhism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
administration of major Buddhist temples
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leadership in Sri Lankan Buddhist institutions ⓘ promotion of Theravada Buddhism in Sri Lanka ⓘ |
| occupation |
Buddhist monk
ⓘ
religious administrator ⓘ spiritual teacher ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity |
Devundara, Sri Lanka
NERFINISHED
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Sri Lanka NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Nayaka Thera NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Buddhism ⓘ |
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: Devundara Sri Jinaratana Nayaka Thera Description of subject: Devundara Sri Jinaratana Nayaka Thera is a prominent Sri Lankan Buddhist monk and religious leader known for his influential role in the development and administration of major Buddhist institutions.
Referenced by (1)
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