Hemanta Mukhopadhyay
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Bengali-language singer
Hindi-language singer
Rabindra Sangeet singer
film producer
human
music director
playback singer
Hemanta Mukhopadhyay was a legendary Indian playback singer and music director, especially renowned for his work in Bengali and Hindi cinema and his contributions to Rabindra Sangeet.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Hemanta Mukhopadhyay canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7660257 — 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: Hemanta Mukhopadhyay Context triple: [Tollywood, hasNotableMusicDirector, Hemanta Mukhopadhyay]
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A.
Sunil Gangopadhyay
Sunil Gangopadhyay was a prominent Indian Bengali poet, novelist, and short story writer known for his influential contributions to modern Bengali literature and his role in the Hungry generation literary movement.
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B.
Subhasis Chaudhuri
Subhasis Chaudhuri is an Indian academic and electrical engineer known for his research in computer vision and image processing and for serving as director of the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay.
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C.
Bibhu Bhattacharya
Bibhu Bhattacharya was an Indian actor best known for playing the character Jatayu in Satyajit Ray’s Feluda series of films and television adaptations.
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D.
Sukhamoy Chakravarty
Sukhamoy Chakravarty was a prominent Indian economist and planner known for his influential work on development economics and his role in shaping India’s economic policy.
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E.
Niranjan Pal
Niranjan Pal was an Indian playwright and screenwriter associated with early Indian cinema and the Indian independence movement.
- 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: Hemanta Mukhopadhyay Target entity description: Hemanta Mukhopadhyay was a legendary Indian playback singer and music director, especially renowned for his work in Bengali and Hindi cinema and his contributions to Rabindra Sangeet.
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A.
Sunil Gangopadhyay
Sunil Gangopadhyay was a prominent Indian Bengali poet, novelist, and short story writer known for his influential contributions to modern Bengali literature and his role in the Hungry generation literary movement.
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B.
Subhasis Chaudhuri
Subhasis Chaudhuri is an Indian academic and electrical engineer known for his research in computer vision and image processing and for serving as director of the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay.
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C.
Bibhu Bhattacharya
Bibhu Bhattacharya was an Indian actor best known for playing the character Jatayu in Satyajit Ray’s Feluda series of films and television adaptations.
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D.
Sukhamoy Chakravarty
Sukhamoy Chakravarty was a prominent Indian economist and planner known for his influential work on development economics and his role in shaping India’s economic policy.
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E.
Niranjan Pal
Niranjan Pal was an Indian playwright and screenwriter associated with early Indian cinema and the Indian independence movement.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (60)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Bengali-language singer
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Hindi-language singer ⓘ Rabindra Sangeet singer ⓘ film producer ⓘ human ⓘ music director ⓘ playback singer ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd | 1989 ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1940 ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Hemant Kumar
NERFINISHED
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Hemant Kumar Mukhopadhyay NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Bimal Roy
NERFINISHED
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Rabindranath Tagore NERFINISHED ⓘ Salil Chowdhury NERFINISHED ⓘ Satyajit Ray NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
National Film Award for Best Male Playback Singer
NERFINISHED
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Padma Bhushan ⓘ Sangeet Natak Akademi Award NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | India ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1920-06-16 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1989-09-26 ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Bengali cinema
ⓘ
Hindi cinema NERFINISHED ⓘ Rabindra Sangeet interpretation ⓘ |
| genre |
Bengali modern songs
ⓘ
Hindi film songs ⓘ Rabindra Sangeet NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasChild |
Jayanta Mukherjee
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ranu Mukherjee NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
Bengali
ⓘ
Hindi ⓘ |
| movement | Golden age of Indian cinema ⓘ |
| nameInBengali | হেমন্ত মুখোপাধ্যায় NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Rabindra Sangeet recordings
ⓘ
songs in Amanush ⓘ songs in Anandalok (Bengali film songs) ⓘ songs in Anupama ⓘ songs in Balika Badhu (Bengali) ⓘ songs in Bees Saal Baad ⓘ songs in Deep Jwele Jaai ⓘ songs in Do Dooni Chaar ⓘ songs in Harano Sur ⓘ songs in Hospital ⓘ songs in Khamoshi ⓘ songs in Nagin (1954 film) ⓘ songs in Nimantran ⓘ songs in Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam ⓘ songs in Saptapadi ⓘ songs in Shesh Parichay ⓘ |
| occupation |
film producer
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music director ⓘ playback singer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
United Provinces of British India
NERFINISHED
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Varanasi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
India
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Kolkata NERFINISHED ⓘ West Bengal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Hinduism ⓘ |
| residence | Kolkata NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Latika Mukherjee 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: Hemanta Mukhopadhyay Description of subject: Hemanta Mukhopadhyay was a legendary Indian playback singer and music director, especially renowned for his work in Bengali and Hindi cinema and his contributions to Rabindra Sangeet.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.