Solomon Dias Bandaranaike
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Solomon Dias Bandaranaike was a prominent Sri Lankan statesman who served as Prime Minister and founded the Sri Lanka Freedom Party, playing a key role in the country’s post-independence politics.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Solomon Dias Bandaranaike canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9223048 — 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: Solomon Dias Bandaranaike Context triple: [Anura Bandaranaike, relative, Solomon Dias Bandaranaike]
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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.
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S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike
S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike was a prominent Sri Lankan statesman and founder of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party who served as prime minister in the 1950s and was assassinated while in office.
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Robert Senanayake
Robert Senanayake was a prominent Sri Lankan businessman and sports administrator, known especially for his leadership of the Ceylon Cricket Association and his role in the country’s early post-independence corporate sphere.
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D. S. Senanayake
D. S. Senanayake was the first Prime Minister of independent Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) and is widely regarded as the "Father of the Nation" for his leading role in achieving self-rule from British colonial rule.
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E.
Fredrick Richard Senanayake
Fredrick Richard Senanayake was a prominent early 20th-century Sri Lankan nationalist leader and lawyer who played a key role in the country’s independence movement and came from the influential Senanayake political family.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Solomon Dias Bandaranaike Target entity description: Solomon Dias Bandaranaike was a prominent Sri Lankan statesman who served as Prime Minister and founded the Sri Lanka Freedom Party, playing a key role in the country’s post-independence politics.
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A.
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.
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B.
S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike
S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike was a prominent Sri Lankan statesman and founder of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party who served as prime minister in the 1950s and was assassinated while in office.
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C.
Robert Senanayake
Robert Senanayake was a prominent Sri Lankan businessman and sports administrator, known especially for his leadership of the Ceylon Cricket Association and his role in the country’s early post-independence corporate sphere.
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D.
D. S. Senanayake
D. S. Senanayake was the first Prime Minister of independent Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) and is widely regarded as the "Father of the Nation" for his leading role in achieving self-rule from British colonial rule.
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E.
Fredrick Richard Senanayake
Fredrick Richard Senanayake was a prominent early 20th-century Sri Lankan nationalist leader and lawyer who played a key role in the country’s independence movement and came from the influential Senanayake political family.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Sri Lankan politician
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Horagolla Bandaranaike Samadhi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | assassination ⓘ |
| child |
Anura Bandaranaike
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Chandrika Kumaratunga NERFINISHED ⓘ Sunethra Bandaranaike NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Ceylon
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sri Lanka NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1899-01-08 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1959-09-26 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Christ Church, Oxford
ⓘ
S. Thomas' College, Mount Lavinia NERFINISHED ⓘ University of Oxford ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Sinhalese NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Bandaranaike NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| father | Solomon Dias Bandaranaike Sr. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | politics ⓘ |
| founded | Sri Lanka Freedom Party NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | Solomon West Ridgeway Dias Bandaranaike NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Solomon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| heldPosition |
Leader of the Opposition of Ceylon
ⓘ
Minister of Health and Local Government of Ceylon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
founding the Sri Lanka Freedom Party
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leading the Mahajana Eksath Peramuna coalition in 1956 election ⓘ promoting Sinhala as the sole official language ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
English
ⓘ
Sinhala NERFINISHED ⓘ Tamil NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| laterReligion | Buddhism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mannerOfDeath | homicide ⓘ |
| memberOf |
House of Representatives of Ceylon
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
State Council of Ceylon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mother | Daisy Ezline Obeyesekere NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| movement | Sinhala nationalist movement ⓘ |
| notableWork | Sinhala Only policy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| officeEnd | 1959 ⓘ |
| officeStart | 1956 ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Colombo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Colombo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| politicalParty | Sri Lanka Freedom Party NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Prime Minister of Ceylon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| predecessor | John Kotelawala NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| previousPoliticalParty | United National Party NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Anglicanism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | Tintagel, Colombo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Sirimavo Bandaranaike NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| successor | Wijeyananda Dahanayake 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: Solomon Dias Bandaranaike Description of subject: Solomon Dias Bandaranaike was a prominent Sri Lankan statesman who served as Prime Minister and founded the Sri Lanka Freedom Party, playing a key role in the country’s post-independence politics.
Referenced by (1)
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