Durga
E647990
Durga is a central character in Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay’s novel and Satyajit Ray’s film adaptation "Pather Panchali," depicted as a spirited, mischievous young girl growing up in rural Bengal.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Durga canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7121663 — 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 Context triple: [Pather Panchali, mainCharacter, Durga]
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A.
Goddess Durga
Goddess Durga is a principal Hindu deity revered as a fierce yet protective mother goddess who embodies divine strength, righteousness, and the destruction of evil.
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B.
Durga Rani
Durga Rani, better known as Durga Bhabhi, was an Indian revolutionary and freedom fighter associated with the Hindustan Socialist Republican Association during the struggle against British rule.
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C.
Bhudevi
Bhudevi is the Hindu earth goddess and consort of Lord Vishnu, revered as the personification of the fertile, nurturing aspects of the Earth.
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D.
Bhagavati Devi
Bhagavati Devi was the pious mother of Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura, a prominent Gaudiya Vaishnava acharya and founder of the Gaudiya Math.
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E.
Bagalamukhi
Bagalamukhi is a Hindu goddess and one of the ten Mahavidyas, revered for her power to paralyze enemies and silence negative forces.
- 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 Target entity description: Durga is a central character in Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay’s novel and Satyajit Ray’s film adaptation "Pather Panchali," depicted as a spirited, mischievous young girl growing up in rural Bengal.
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A.
Goddess Durga
Goddess Durga is a principal Hindu deity revered as a fierce yet protective mother goddess who embodies divine strength, righteousness, and the destruction of evil.
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B.
Durga Rani
Durga Rani, better known as Durga Bhabhi, was an Indian revolutionary and freedom fighter associated with the Hindustan Socialist Republican Association during the struggle against British rule.
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C.
Bhudevi
Bhudevi is the Hindu earth goddess and consort of Lord Vishnu, revered as the personification of the fertile, nurturing aspects of the Earth.
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D.
Bhagavati Devi
Bhagavati Devi was the pious mother of Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura, a prominent Gaudiya Vaishnava acharya and founder of the Gaudiya Math.
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E.
Bagalamukhi
Bagalamukhi is a Hindu goddess and one of the ten Mahavidyas, revered for her power to paralyze enemies and silence negative forces.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ literary character ⓘ |
| adaptedBy | Satyajit Ray NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Pather Panchali NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsInFilm | Pather Panchali NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsInNovel | Pather Panchali NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
monsoon
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rural childhood ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | illness ⓘ |
| characterAge | child ⓘ |
| characterRole | central character ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
affectionate
ⓘ
mischievous ⓘ playful ⓘ rebellious ⓘ spirited ⓘ |
| countryOfFictionalSetting | India NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| creator | Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| diesIn | Pather Panchali NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmReleaseYear | 1955 ⓘ |
| firstAppearanceYear | 1929 ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | Bengali NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| medium |
film
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novel ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction |
catalyst for emotional tone
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sister of protagonist ⓘ |
| partOfSeries | The Apu Trilogy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Uma Dasgupta NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relativeOf |
Harihar Ray
NERFINISHED
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Indir Thakrun NERFINISHED ⓘ Sarbajaya Ray NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting | rural Bengal ⓘ |
| siblingOf | Apu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workAuthor | Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workDirector | Satyajit Ray NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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 Description of subject: Durga is a central character in Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay’s novel and Satyajit Ray’s film adaptation "Pather Panchali," depicted as a spirited, mischievous young girl growing up in rural Bengal.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.