Durga Ray
E644285
Durga Ray is a central, tragic child character in Satyajit Ray’s classic Bengali film and novel "Pather Panchali," known for her playful spirit and close bond with her younger brother Apu.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Durga Ray canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7121687 — 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: Durga Ray Context triple: [Pather Panchali, hasCharacter, Durga Ray]
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A.
Usha Arghya
Usha Arghya is the concluding early-morning offering to the rising sun goddess Usha during the final day of the Hindu festival Chhath Puja.
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B.
Saradamani Mukhopadhyay
Saradamani Mukhopadhyay, better known as Sarada Devi or the Holy Mother, was the spiritual consort of Sri Ramakrishna and a revered Hindu saint and teacher in late 19th- and early 20th-century India.
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C.
Anita Mazumdar
Anita Mazumdar, better known as Anita Desai, is an acclaimed Indian novelist and short story writer noted for her nuanced portrayals of inner life and Indian society.
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D.
Labanya Das
Labanya Das was the wife of renowned Bengali poet Jibanananda Das and a figure associated with his personal and literary life.
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E.
Ruma Bose
Ruma Bose is an entrepreneur, investor, and author known for her leadership roles in social impact ventures and global business initiatives.
- 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: Durga Ray Target entity description: Durga Ray is a central, tragic child character in Satyajit Ray’s classic Bengali film and novel "Pather Panchali," known for her playful spirit and close bond with her younger brother Apu.
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A.
Usha Arghya
Usha Arghya is the concluding early-morning offering to the rising sun goddess Usha during the final day of the Hindu festival Chhath Puja.
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B.
Saradamani Mukhopadhyay
Saradamani Mukhopadhyay, better known as Sarada Devi or the Holy Mother, was the spiritual consort of Sri Ramakrishna and a revered Hindu saint and teacher in late 19th- and early 20th-century India.
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C.
Anita Mazumdar
Anita Mazumdar, better known as Anita Desai, is an acclaimed Indian novelist and short story writer noted for her nuanced portrayals of inner life and Indian society.
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D.
Labanya Das
Labanya Das was the wife of renowned Bengali poet Jibanananda Das and a figure associated with his personal and literary life.
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E.
Ruma Bose
Ruma Bose is an entrepreneur, investor, and author known for her leadership roles in social impact ventures and global business initiatives.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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film character ⓘ literary character ⓘ |
| adaptedBy | Satyajit Ray NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ageGroup | child ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Pather Panchali NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsInFilm | Pather Panchali NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsInNovel | Pather Panchali NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithAuthor | Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithDirector | Satyajit Ray NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterRole |
central character
ⓘ
tragic character ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
playful
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spirited ⓘ |
| countryOfOriginOfWork | India NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| creator | Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| culturalContext | Bengali NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| diesIn | Pather Panchali NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Ray NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| father | Harihar Ray NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Pather Panchali universe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | Durga Ray NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| givenName | Durga NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| grandmotherFigure | Indir Thakrun NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCloseBondWith | Apu Ray NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | Bengali ⓘ |
| medium |
cinema
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literature ⓘ |
| mother | Sarbajaya Ray NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction |
catalyst for family tragedy
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symbol of lost childhood ⓘ |
| nationalityInFiction | Indian ⓘ |
| partOfSeries | Apu Trilogy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Uma Dasgupta NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relative |
Apu Ray
NERFINISHED
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Harihar Ray NERFINISHED ⓘ Indir Thakrun NERFINISHED ⓘ Sarbajaya Ray NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting | rural Bengal ⓘ |
| sibling | Apu Ray NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| themeAssociation |
childhood
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family bonds ⓘ loss ⓘ poverty ⓘ rural life ⓘ |
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: Durga Ray Description of subject: Durga Ray is a central, tragic child character in Satyajit Ray’s classic Bengali film and novel "Pather Panchali," known for her playful spirit and close bond with her younger brother Apu.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.