Nimal Siripala de Silva
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Nimal Siripala de Silva is a veteran Sri Lankan politician and lawyer who has held multiple senior ministerial portfolios and leadership roles within the Sri Lanka Freedom Party.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Nimal Siripala de Silva canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8350438 — 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: Nimal Siripala de Silva Context triple: [Sri Lanka Freedom Party, hasNotableLeader, Nimal Siripala de Silva]
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A.
Ranasinghe Premadasa
Ranasinghe Premadasa was the President of Sri Lanka from 1989 to 1993, known for his populist policies, extensive housing programs, and leadership during a turbulent period of civil conflict and political violence.
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B.
J. R. Jayewardene
J. R. Jayewardene was the second executive President of Sri Lanka, known for introducing a powerful presidential system and leading the country through significant economic liberalization and rising ethnic tensions in the late 20th century.
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C.
Anura Bandaranaike
Anura Bandaranaike was a prominent Sri Lankan politician and member of the influential Bandaranaike family, who held several key ministerial and parliamentary positions during his career.
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D.
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.
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E.
Sirima Ratwatte Dias Bandaranaike
Sirima Ratwatte Dias Bandaranaike, better known as Sirimavo Bandaranaike, was a Sri Lankan stateswoman who became the world’s first female prime minister and served three terms as the country’s head of government.
- 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: Nimal Siripala de Silva Target entity description: Nimal Siripala de Silva is a veteran Sri Lankan politician and lawyer who has held multiple senior ministerial portfolios and leadership roles within the Sri Lanka Freedom Party.
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A.
Ranasinghe Premadasa
Ranasinghe Premadasa was the President of Sri Lanka from 1989 to 1993, known for his populist policies, extensive housing programs, and leadership during a turbulent period of civil conflict and political violence.
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B.
J. R. Jayewardene
J. R. Jayewardene was the second executive President of Sri Lanka, known for introducing a powerful presidential system and leading the country through significant economic liberalization and rising ethnic tensions in the late 20th century.
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C.
Anura Bandaranaike
Anura Bandaranaike was a prominent Sri Lankan politician and member of the influential Bandaranaike family, who held several key ministerial and parliamentary positions during his career.
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D.
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.
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E.
Sirima Ratwatte Dias Bandaranaike
Sirima Ratwatte Dias Bandaranaike, better known as Sirimavo Bandaranaike, was a Sri Lankan stateswoman who became the world’s first female prime minister and served three terms as the country’s head of government.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Sri Lankan politician
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| continentOfCitizenship | Asia ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Sri Lanka NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Royal College, Colombo
NERFINISHED
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Sri Lanka Law College NERFINISHED ⓘ University of Ceylon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
law
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politics ⓘ |
| hasHonorificPrefix | Hon. ⓘ |
| hasHonorificSuffix |
MP
ⓘ
Minister ⓘ PC ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | Sinhala NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOfPoliticalParty |
Sri Lanka Freedom Party
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
holding multiple senior ministerial portfolios in Sri Lanka
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leadership roles within the Sri Lanka Freedom Party ⓘ |
| occupation |
lawyer
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politician ⓘ |
| parliamentaryBody | Parliament of Sri Lanka NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| politicalAlignment | centre-left ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Cabinet Minister of Sri Lanka
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Chief Government Whip of the Parliament of Sri Lanka NERFINISHED ⓘ Leader of the House of the Parliament of Sri Lanka ⓘ Leader of the Opposition of Sri Lanka ⓘ Member of Parliament for Badulla District ⓘ Member of Parliament of Sri Lanka ⓘ Minister of Health of Sri Lanka ⓘ Minister of Irrigation and Water Management of Sri Lanka ⓘ Minister of Ports and Shipping of Sri Lanka ⓘ Minister of Ports, Shipping and Aviation of Sri Lanka ⓘ Minister of Transport of Sri Lanka ⓘ Senior Vice President of Sri Lanka Freedom Party ⓘ Vice Chairman of Sri Lanka Freedom Party ⓘ |
| profession | Attorney-at-law ⓘ |
| religion | Buddhism ⓘ |
| residence | 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: Nimal Siripala de Silva Description of subject: Nimal Siripala de Silva is a veteran Sri Lankan politician and lawyer who has held multiple senior ministerial portfolios and leadership roles within the Sri Lanka Freedom Party.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.