C. P. de Silva
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C. P. de Silva was a prominent Sri Lankan politician and influential mid-20th-century statesman who played a key role in shaping the country’s post-independence political landscape.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| C. P. de Silva canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8350409 — 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: C. P. de Silva Context triple: [Sri Lanka Freedom Party, foundedBy, C. P. de Silva]
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A.
Philip Gunawardena
Philip Gunawardena was a prominent Sri Lankan socialist leader and independence activist often regarded as a key architect of the country’s leftist political movement.
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B.
A. T. Ariyaratne
A. T. Ariyaratne is a Sri Lankan Buddhist leader and social reformer best known as the founder of the Sarvodaya Shramadana Movement, which applies Buddhist principles to grassroots community development and peacebuilding.
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C.
S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike
S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike was a prominent Sri Lankan statesman and founder of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party who served as prime minister in the 1950s and was assassinated while in office.
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D.
Aravinda de Silva
Aravinda de Silva is a former Sri Lankan cricketer renowned as one of the country’s greatest batsmen and a key architect of their 1996 Cricket World Cup triumph.
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E.
Sir John Kotelawala
Sir John Kotelawala was a Sri Lankan statesman and military officer who served as the country’s third Prime Minister in the 1950s.
- 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: C. P. de Silva Target entity description: C. P. de Silva was a prominent Sri Lankan politician and influential mid-20th-century statesman who played a key role in shaping the country’s post-independence political landscape.
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A.
Philip Gunawardena
Philip Gunawardena was a prominent Sri Lankan socialist leader and independence activist often regarded as a key architect of the country’s leftist political movement.
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B.
A. T. Ariyaratne
A. T. Ariyaratne is a Sri Lankan Buddhist leader and social reformer best known as the founder of the Sarvodaya Shramadana Movement, which applies Buddhist principles to grassroots community development and peacebuilding.
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C.
S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike
S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike was a prominent Sri Lankan statesman and founder of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party who served as prime minister in the 1950s and was assassinated while in office.
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D.
Aravinda de Silva
Aravinda de Silva is a former Sri Lankan cricketer renowned as one of the country’s greatest batsmen and a key architect of their 1996 Cricket World Cup triumph.
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E.
Sir John Kotelawala
Sir John Kotelawala was a Sri Lankan statesman and military officer who served as the country’s third Prime Minister in the 1950s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (34)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Sri Lankan politician
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cabinet minister of Ceylon ⓘ human ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod | mid-20th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Ceylon
NERFINISHED
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Sri Lanka NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Sinhalese NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
agricultural policy
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politics ⓘ public administration ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
English
ⓘ
Sinhala NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOfPoliticalParty |
Sri Lanka Freedom Party
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
United National Party NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Charles Percival de Silva NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
influencing post-independence agricultural and land policies in Ceylon
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leading the government after the assassination of S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike ⓘ playing a key role in mid-20th-century Ceylonese politics ⓘ |
| notableRole | key figure in shaping Sri Lanka’s post-independence political landscape ⓘ |
| officeContested | Parliamentary seat in the House of Representatives of Ceylon ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
Bandaranaike administration
NERFINISHED
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Dudley Senanayake administration NERFINISHED ⓘ post-independence government of Ceylon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Acting Prime Minister of Ceylon
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Cabinet Minister in the United National Party government ⓘ Cabinet Minister of Lands, Land Development and Agriculture ⓘ Deputy Leader of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party ⓘ Leader of the House of Ceylon ⓘ Leader of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (acting) ⓘ Minister of Agriculture and Lands ⓘ |
| residence |
Ceylon
NERFINISHED
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Sri Lanka NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Colombo
NERFINISHED
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Sri Lanka 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: C. P. de Silva Description of subject: C. P. de Silva was a prominent Sri Lankan politician and influential mid-20th-century statesman who played a key role in shaping the country’s post-independence political landscape.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.