Prabaker
E73350
Prabaker is a cheerful and loyal Indian guide and friend who plays a central supporting role in Gregory David Roberts' novel "Shantaram."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Prabaker canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T581667 — 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: Prabaker Context triple: [Shantaram, notableCharacter, Prabaker]
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A.
Premji
Premji is an Indian surname most prominently associated with billionaire philanthropist and Wipro chairman Azim Premji.
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B.
Jagat Narayan
Jagat Narayan was an Indian educationist and public figure who served as a member of the British-era Hunter Commission on education reforms.
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C.
Bhonsle
The Bhonsle were a prominent Maratha royal dynasty best known for producing Chhatrapati Shivaji, founder of the Maratha Empire in western India.
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D.
Nathuram
Nathuram was the Indian nationalist and Hindu extremist who assassinated Mahatma Gandhi in 1948.
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E.
Shadharwan
Shadharwan is the sloped stone base or foundation that runs along the lower exterior walls of the Kaaba in Mecca.
- 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: Prabaker Target entity description: Prabaker is a cheerful and loyal Indian guide and friend who plays a central supporting role in Gregory David Roberts' novel "Shantaram."
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A.
Premji
Premji is an Indian surname most prominently associated with billionaire philanthropist and Wipro chairman Azim Premji.
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B.
Jagat Narayan
Jagat Narayan was an Indian educationist and public figure who served as a member of the British-era Hunter Commission on education reforms.
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C.
Bhonsle
The Bhonsle were a prominent Maratha royal dynasty best known for producing Chhatrapati Shivaji, founder of the Maratha Empire in western India.
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D.
Nathuram
Nathuram was the Indian nationalist and Hindu extremist who assassinated Mahatma Gandhi in 1948.
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E.
Shadharwan
Shadharwan is the sloped stone base or foundation that runs along the lower exterior walls of the Kaaba in Mecca.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Fictional character
ⓘ
Literary character ⓘ Supporting character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Shantaram ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
Cheerful
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Loyal ⓘ |
| createdBy | Gregory David Roberts ⓘ |
| medium | Novel ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | Central supporting character ⓘ |
| nationality | Indian ⓘ |
| roleInWork |
Friend
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Guide ⓘ |
| workAuthor | Gregory David Roberts ⓘ |
| workGenre | Novel ⓘ |
| workTitle | Shantaram ⓘ |
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: Prabaker Description of subject: Prabaker is a cheerful and loyal Indian guide and friend who plays a central supporting role in Gregory David Roberts' novel "Shantaram."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.