Shoba
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Shoba was an acclaimed Indian film actress known for her powerful performances in Malayalam and Tamil cinema, whose promising career was cut short by her tragic death at a young age.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Shoba canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8565155 — 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: Shoba Context triple: [Balu Mahendra, spouse, Shoba]
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A.
Sabya
Sabya is a city in southwestern Saudi Arabia located within the Jazan Region near the Red Sea coast.
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B.
Aruna
Aruna is a feminine given name most notably borne by Indian independence activist and political leader Aruna Asaf Ali.
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C.
Aruna
Aruna is a figure in Hindu mythology known as the personified dawn and the divine charioteer who drives the sun god Surya across the sky.
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D.
Ashalata
Ashalata is a central female character in Rabindranath Tagore’s Bengali novel "Chokher Bali," representing innocence and traditional values amid complex emotional and social conflicts.
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E.
Bimala
Bimala is the central female protagonist and introspective narrator of Rabindranath Tagore’s novel "The Home and the World," whose personal awakening unfolds amid political and emotional turmoil.
- 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: Shoba Target entity description: Shoba was an acclaimed Indian film actress known for her powerful performances in Malayalam and Tamil cinema, whose promising career was cut short by her tragic death at a young age.
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A.
Sabya
Sabya is a city in southwestern Saudi Arabia located within the Jazan Region near the Red Sea coast.
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B.
Aruna
Aruna is a feminine given name most notably borne by Indian independence activist and political leader Aruna Asaf Ali.
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C.
Aruna
Aruna is a figure in Hindu mythology known as the personified dawn and the divine charioteer who drives the sun god Surya across the sky.
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D.
Ashalata
Ashalata is a central female character in Rabindranath Tagore’s Bengali novel "Chokher Bali," representing innocence and traditional values amid complex emotional and social conflicts.
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E.
Bimala
Bimala is the central female protagonist and introspective narrator of Rabindranath Tagore’s novel "The Home and the World," whose personal awakening unfolds amid political and emotional turmoil.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Indian film actress
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child actress ⓘ person ⓘ |
| activeYearsEndYear | 1980 ⓘ |
| activeYearsStartYear | 1966 ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Baby Shoba
NERFINISHED
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Mahalakshmi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Kerala State Film Award
NERFINISHED
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National Film Award for Best Actress NERFINISHED ⓘ Tamil Nadu State Film Award NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | suicide ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | India ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1962-09-23 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1980-05-01 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Malayali NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | drama films ⓘ |
| hasRole |
lead actress
ⓘ
supporting actress ⓘ |
| industry | Indian film industry ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
Malayalam
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Tamil NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | Malayalam NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableCharacteristic |
acclaimed for realistic acting style
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died at a young age ⓘ |
| notableFor |
powerful performances in Malayalam cinema
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powerful performances in Tamil cinema ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Azhiyatha Kolangal
NERFINISHED
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Chattakari NERFINISHED ⓘ Kuyiline Thedi NERFINISHED ⓘ Mullum Malarum NERFINISHED ⓘ Nidra NERFINISHED ⓘ Oru Vidukadhai Oru Thodarkadhai NERFINISHED ⓘ Pasi NERFINISHED ⓘ Sarapancharam NERFINISHED ⓘ Uthiripookkal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actress
ⓘ
film actress ⓘ |
| partOf | South Indian cinema NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Chennai
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Madras NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Chennai
NERFINISHED
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Madras NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse | Balu Mahendra NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workedIn |
Malayalam cinema
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Tamil cinema 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: Shoba Description of subject: Shoba was an acclaimed Indian film actress known for her powerful performances in Malayalam and Tamil cinema, whose promising career was cut short by her tragic death at a young age.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.