Kasthuri Raja
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Kasthuri Raja is an Indian film director and producer known for his work in Tamil cinema and for being part of a prominent filmmaking family.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Kasthuri Raja canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8738828 — 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: Kasthuri Raja Context triple: [Dhanush, father, Kasthuri Raja]
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A.
S. V. Krishnamoorthy Rao
S. V. Krishnamoorthy Rao was an Indian politician who became the inaugural Deputy Chairman of the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of India’s Parliament.
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B.
K. Karunakaran
K. Karunakaran is an Indian academic administrator and professor who has served as the vice-chancellor of Bharathiar University in Tamil Nadu.
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C.
Gopala Ratnam Subramaniam
Gopala Ratnam Subramaniam, better known as Mani Ratnam, is a renowned Indian film director, screenwriter, and producer celebrated for his influential work in Tamil and Indian cinema.
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D.
M. Jegathesan
M. Jegathesan is a former Malaysian sprinting champion and sports figure who notably served as a torch lighter at the 1998 Commonwealth Games.
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E.
Pulapre Balakrishnan
Pulapre Balakrishnan is an Indian economist and academic known for his work on macroeconomic policy, growth, and development, and for his contributions to public discourse on the Indian economy.
- 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: Kasthuri Raja Target entity description: Kasthuri Raja is an Indian film director and producer known for his work in Tamil cinema and for being part of a prominent filmmaking family.
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A.
S. V. Krishnamoorthy Rao
S. V. Krishnamoorthy Rao was an Indian politician who became the inaugural Deputy Chairman of the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of India’s Parliament.
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B.
K. Karunakaran
K. Karunakaran is an Indian academic administrator and professor who has served as the vice-chancellor of Bharathiar University in Tamil Nadu.
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C.
Gopala Ratnam Subramaniam
Gopala Ratnam Subramaniam, better known as Mani Ratnam, is a renowned Indian film director, screenwriter, and producer celebrated for his influential work in Tamil and Indian cinema.
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D.
M. Jegathesan
M. Jegathesan is a former Malaysian sprinting champion and sports figure who notably served as a torch lighter at the 1998 Commonwealth Games.
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E.
Pulapre Balakrishnan
Pulapre Balakrishnan is an Indian economist and academic known for his work on macroeconomic policy, growth, and development, and for his contributions to public discourse on the Indian economy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film director
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film producer ⓘ human ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| activeIn | Tamil Nadu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| child |
Dhanush
NERFINISHED
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Karthika Devi NERFINISHED ⓘ Selvaraghavan NERFINISHED ⓘ Vimala Geetha NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| citizenship | Indian ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | India ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
film direction
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film production ⓘ screenwriting ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre |
drama film
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rural drama ⓘ |
| hasDaughter |
Karthika Devi
NERFINISHED
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Vimala Geetha NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSon |
Dhanush
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Selvaraghavan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| industry |
Indian film industry
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Tamil cinema NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
directing village-centric stories
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work in Tamil cinema ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | Tamil NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Kasthuri Raja NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFamily | Dhanush family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
launching his sons as filmmakers and actors
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rural-themed Tamil films ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Anthapuram
NERFINISHED
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En Rasavin Manasile NERFINISHED ⓘ Kaadhal Azhivathillai NERFINISHED ⓘ Kizhakku Cheemayile NERFINISHED ⓘ Thulluvadho Ilamai NERFINISHED ⓘ Veera Thalattu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
film director
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film producer ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| partOf | prominent Tamil filmmaking family ⓘ |
| relative |
Aishwarya Rajinikanth
NERFINISHED
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Rajinikanth NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Vijaya Lakshmi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workLocation | Chennai NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Kasthuri Raja Description of subject: Kasthuri Raja is an Indian film director and producer known for his work in Tamil cinema and for being part of a prominent filmmaking family.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.