King of Kandy
E83787
The King of Kandy was the monarch of the last independent Sinhalese kingdom in Sri Lanka, ruling from the hill capital of Kandy until its annexation by the British in the early 19th century.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| King of Kandy canonical | 10 |
| Kings of Kandy | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T682433 — 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: King of Kandy Context triple: [Kingdom of Kandy, usedTitleOfRuler, King of Kandy]
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A.
Kandyan massa
Kandyan massa was a traditional coin used as a monetary unit in the historical Kingdom of Kandy in Sri Lanka.
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B.
The King
The King is a conman and one of the two unscrupulous drifters who travel with Huck and Jim, posing as royalty to swindle people in Mark Twain’s "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn."
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C.
Tiger of Malaya
Tiger of Malaya is the famous wartime nickname of Japanese general Tomoyuki Yamashita, noted for his rapid conquest of British Malaya and Singapore during World War II.
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D.
Chokher Bali
Chokher Bali is a classic Bengali novel by Rabindranath Tagore that explores complex human emotions, desire, and social norms through the story of a young widow and a married couple.
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E.
King of the Indies
King of the Indies was a royal title used by Spanish monarchs to signify their sovereignty over Spain’s overseas territories in the Americas and other parts of the New World.
- 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: King of Kandy Target entity description: The King of Kandy was the monarch of the last independent Sinhalese kingdom in Sri Lanka, ruling from the hill capital of Kandy until its annexation by the British in the early 19th century.
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A.
Kandyan massa
Kandyan massa was a traditional coin used as a monetary unit in the historical Kingdom of Kandy in Sri Lanka.
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B.
The King
The King is a conman and one of the two unscrupulous drifters who travel with Huck and Jim, posing as royalty to swindle people in Mark Twain’s "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn."
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C.
Tiger of Malaya
Tiger of Malaya is the famous wartime nickname of Japanese general Tomoyuki Yamashita, noted for his rapid conquest of British Malaya and Singapore during World War II.
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D.
Chokher Bali
Chokher Bali is a classic Bengali novel by Rabindranath Tagore that explores complex human emotions, desire, and social norms through the story of a young widow and a married couple.
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E.
King of the Indies
King of the Indies was a royal title used by Spanish monarchs to signify their sovereignty over Spain’s overseas territories in the Americas and other parts of the New World.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (53)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Sri Lankan royal title
ⓘ
hereditary title ⓘ monarchical title ⓘ |
| appliesToJurisdiction |
Kandyan Kingdom
ⓘ
central highlands of Sri Lanka ⓘ |
| associatedWithEvent |
Kandyan Wars
ⓘ
Uva Rebellion ⓘ |
| capital | Kandy ⓘ |
| coatOfArms | emblem featuring the sun and moon (Kandyan royal symbols) ⓘ |
| country |
Kingdom of Kandy (interior Sri Lanka)
ⓘ
surface form:
Kingdom of Kandy
|
| dissolvedOrAbolished | 1815 ⓘ |
| dynasty |
House of Siri Sanga Bo
ⓘ
Nayakkar dynasty ⓘ
surface form:
Nayaka dynasty
|
| endCause | British colonial expansion in Sri Lanka ⓘ |
| endTime | 1815 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Sinhalese ⓘ |
| exercisedPowerThrough |
Kandyan aristocracy
ⓘ
surface form:
Kandyan court and council of nobles
|
| firstHolder | Senasammata Vikramabahu ⓘ |
| followedBy | British Ceylon ⓘ |
| follows |
Kotte
ⓘ
surface form:
King of Kotte
Mayadunne of Sitawaka ⓘ
surface form:
King of Sitawaka
|
| governmentForm | absolute monarchy with strong aristocratic influence ⓘ |
| governs | Kandyan nobility and chieftains (Radala) ⓘ |
| hasRole |
commander-in-chief of the Kandyan armed forces
ⓘ
protector of Buddhism in the Kandyan realm ⓘ supreme ruler of the Kandyan Kingdom ⓘ |
| inception | 15th century ⓘ |
| lastHolder | Sri Vikrama Rajasinha ⓘ |
| locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity |
Central Province of Sri Lanka
ⓘ
surface form:
Central Province, Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka ⓘ |
| officialReligionOfRealm | Buddhism ⓘ |
| partOf |
Kandyan kings
ⓘ
surface form:
Sinhalese monarchy
Sri Lankan monarchy ⓘ |
| positionHeldIn | Kandy ⓘ |
| precededBy | independent Sinhalese kingdoms of the lowlands ⓘ |
| reasonForAbolition |
Kandyan Convention
ⓘ
annexation by the British Empire ⓘ |
| religion |
Theravada
ⓘ
surface form:
Theravada Buddhism
|
| replaces | local chieftaincies in the Kandyan highlands ⓘ |
| residence |
Sri Dalada Maligawa complex
ⓘ
surface form:
Royal Palace of Kandy
Sri Dalada Maligawa complex ⓘ
surface form:
Temple of the Tooth complex (as royal precinct)
|
| startTime | late 15th century ⓘ |
| successor |
British Crown rule in Ceylon
ⓘ
British Governor of Ceylon ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
independence of the central highlands of Sri Lanka
ⓘ
sovereignty of the Kandyan Kingdom ⓘ |
| territoryIncludes |
Kandy
ⓘ
Sabaragamuwa ⓘ Uva ⓘ parts of the central and eastern highlands of Sri Lanka ⓘ |
| usedLanguage |
Pali
ⓘ
Sinhala ⓘ Tamil (for diplomacy and administration at times) ⓘ |
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: King of Kandy Description of subject: The King of Kandy was the monarch of the last independent Sinhalese kingdom in Sri Lanka, ruling from the hill capital of Kandy until its annexation by the British in the early 19th century.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Kingdom of Kandy
subject surface form:
House of Dinajara
this entity surface form:
Kings of Kandy