Bodawpaya
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Bodawpaya was a powerful late-18th-century Burmese king known for expanding the Konbaung Empire and initiating grand religious and architectural projects, including the unfinished Mingun Pagoda.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| King Bodawpaya | 3 |
| Bodawpaya canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9125167 — 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: Bodawpaya Context triple: [Konbaung Dynasty, notableRuler, Bodawpaya]
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A.
Alaungpaya
Alaungpaya was an 18th-century Burmese king and military leader who unified much of Burma and established the Konbaung Dynasty, the last ruling dynasty of the country.
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B.
King Mindon
King Mindon was a 19th-century Burmese monarch of the Konbaung Dynasty known for his administrative reforms, promotion of Buddhism, and relocation of the royal capital to Mandalay.
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C.
Narathihapate
Narathihapate was the last king of the Pagan Kingdom of Burma, remembered for his troubled reign and the Mongol invasions that led to the kingdom’s collapse.
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D.
King Thibaw Min
King Thibaw Min was the last monarch of the Konbaung Dynasty and the final king of Burma, whose defeat and exile marked the end of Burmese independence and the beginning of full British colonial rule.
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E.
Kyansittha
Kyansittha was a prominent 11th-century king of the Pagan Kingdom in present-day Myanmar, known for consolidating the Burmese state and patronizing Theravada Buddhism and monumental temple construction.
- 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: Bodawpaya Target entity description: Bodawpaya was a powerful late-18th-century Burmese king known for expanding the Konbaung Empire and initiating grand religious and architectural projects, including the unfinished Mingun Pagoda.
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A.
Alaungpaya
Alaungpaya was an 18th-century Burmese king and military leader who unified much of Burma and established the Konbaung Dynasty, the last ruling dynasty of the country.
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B.
King Mindon
King Mindon was a 19th-century Burmese monarch of the Konbaung Dynasty known for his administrative reforms, promotion of Buddhism, and relocation of the royal capital to Mandalay.
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C.
Narathihapate
Narathihapate was the last king of the Pagan Kingdom of Burma, remembered for his troubled reign and the Mongol invasions that led to the kingdom’s collapse.
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D.
King Thibaw Min
King Thibaw Min was the last monarch of the Konbaung Dynasty and the final king of Burma, whose defeat and exile marked the end of Burmese independence and the beginning of full British colonial rule.
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E.
Kyansittha
Kyansittha was a prominent 11th-century king of the Pagan Kingdom in present-day Myanmar, known for consolidating the Burmese state and patronizing Theravada Buddhism and monumental temple construction.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Burmese monarch
ⓘ
King of Burma ⓘ human ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Badon Min
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Bodaw-hpayā NERFINISHED ⓘ Hsinbyushin’s son Prince of Badon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1745-03-11 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Sagaing, Burma NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| capitalEstablished | Amarapura NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| child |
Bagyidaw
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Prince of Sagaing NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conquered |
Arakan
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Manipur NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Burma
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Konbaung Dynasty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1819-06-05 ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Amarapura, Burma NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dynasty | Konbaung dynasty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| eraName | Badon Era NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| father | Alaungpaya NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | Bodawpaya NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| governmentForm | absolute monarchy ⓘ |
| implemented | religious orthodoxy measures ⓘ |
| knownFor |
attempt to build the world’s largest pagoda at Mingun
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expansion of the Konbaung Empire ⓘ large-scale religious construction projects ⓘ religious reforms in Burma ⓘ strict centralization of royal authority ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | Burmese NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryConflict |
conflicts with Siam (Thailand)
ⓘ
wars against Arakan ⓘ |
| mother | Queen Yadana Dewi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Mingun Bell
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mingun Pahtodawgyi (Mingun Pagoda) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| orderedConstructionOf |
Mingun Bell
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mingun Pahtodawgyi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| patronOf | Buddhist Sangha NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld | King of Burma NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| predecessor | Singu Min NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| regionRuled |
Arakan
NERFINISHED
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Manipur NERFINISHED ⓘ Upper Burma NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| reignEnd | 1819 ⓘ |
| reignStart | 1782 ⓘ |
| religion |
Theravada
ⓘ
surface form:
Theravada Buddhism
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| residence | Amarapura Palace NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse |
Me Lun Me
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Me Nu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| successor | Bagyidaw NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| title | Hsinbyumyashin (Lord of the White Elephant) 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: Bodawpaya Description of subject: Bodawpaya was a powerful late-18th-century Burmese king known for expanding the Konbaung Empire and initiating grand religious and architectural projects, including the unfinished Mingun Pagoda.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
King Bodawpaya
this entity surface form:
King Bodawpaya