Kalasan inscription
E86526
The Kalasan inscription is an 8th-century stone inscription from Central Java that records a royal dedication to the Buddhist goddess Tara and provides key evidence about the early Medang (Mataram) Kingdom and its religious architecture.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kalasan inscription canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T713987 — 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: Kalasan inscription Context triple: [Medang Kingdom, source, Kalasan inscription]
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A.
Canggal inscription
The Canggal inscription is an early 8th-century Sanskrit stone inscription from Central Java that records the establishment of a Shivaic lingam and provides one of the earliest written attestations of the Medang (Mataram) Kingdom.
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B.
Nagarakretagama
Nagarakretagama is a 14th-century Old Javanese court poem that provides a detailed account of the Majapahit Empire’s political structure, territories, and royal ceremonies.
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C.
Prambanan Temple
Prambanan Temple is a 9th-century Hindu temple complex in Central Java renowned for its towering, intricately carved shrines dedicated primarily to the Trimurti of Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva.
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D.
Tabula Bantina
Tabula Bantina is an ancient bronze tablet bearing one of the most important surviving inscriptions in the Oscan language, recording laws of a Samnite community in southern Italy.
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E.
Jayanegara
Jayanegara was an early 14th-century king of the Majapahit Empire in Java, known for consolidating the young kingdom amid internal conflicts and succession struggles.
- 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: Kalasan inscription Target entity description: The Kalasan inscription is an 8th-century stone inscription from Central Java that records a royal dedication to the Buddhist goddess Tara and provides key evidence about the early Medang (Mataram) Kingdom and its religious architecture.
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A.
Canggal inscription
The Canggal inscription is an early 8th-century Sanskrit stone inscription from Central Java that records the establishment of a Shivaic lingam and provides one of the earliest written attestations of the Medang (Mataram) Kingdom.
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B.
Nagarakretagama
Nagarakretagama is a 14th-century Old Javanese court poem that provides a detailed account of the Majapahit Empire’s political structure, territories, and royal ceremonies.
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C.
Prambanan Temple
Prambanan Temple is a 9th-century Hindu temple complex in Central Java renowned for its towering, intricately carved shrines dedicated primarily to the Trimurti of Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva.
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D.
Tabula Bantina
Tabula Bantina is an ancient bronze tablet bearing one of the most important surviving inscriptions in the Oscan language, recording laws of a Samnite community in southern Italy.
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E.
Jayanegara
Jayanegara was an early 14th-century king of the Majapahit Empire in Java, known for consolidating the young kingdom amid internal conflicts and succession struggles.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
8th-century artifact
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Buddhist inscription ⓘ epigraphic record ⓘ stone inscription ⓘ |
| approximateYear | circa 778 CE ⓘ |
| associatedWithDynasty | Sailendra dynasty ⓘ |
| associatedWithKingdom |
Medang Kingdom
ⓘ
surface form:
Mataram Kingdom
Medang Kingdom ⓘ |
| associatedWithSite |
Kalasan District
ⓘ
surface form:
Kalasan
|
| associatedWithTemple | Kalasan Temple ⓘ |
| country | Indonesia ⓘ |
| culturalContext | Javanese Buddhist culture ⓘ |
| date | 8th century ⓘ |
| dedicatedTo | Tara ⓘ |
| era | classical Javanese period ⓘ |
| evidenceFor | interaction between political power and Buddhism in Java ⓘ |
| foundIn |
Kalasan District
ⓘ
surface form:
Kalasan area, Central Java
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| function |
commemorative
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religious ⓘ |
| genre | royal inscription ⓘ |
| givesEvidenceFor |
Buddhist religious architecture in Central Java
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Medang Kingdom ⓘ
surface form:
early Medang (Mataram) Kingdom
royal patronage of Buddhism in Java ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | early Medang period ⓘ |
| importance |
key source for early Buddhist architecture in Java
ⓘ
key source for early Central Javanese history ⓘ |
| inscriptionType | donative inscription ⓘ |
| language | Sanskrit ⓘ |
| linkedTo | development of temple architecture in Central Java ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Java
ⓘ
surface form:
Central Java
|
| material | stone ⓘ |
| mentions | royal patron ⓘ |
| mentionsDeity | Tara ⓘ |
| records |
construction of a sacred building for Tara
ⓘ
establishment of a monastery for Buddhist monks ⓘ royal dedication to the Buddhist goddess Tara ⓘ |
| region | Central Java, Indonesia ⓘ |
| religion | Buddhism ⓘ |
| script |
Nagari script
ⓘ
surface form:
Pranagari script
|
| subjectMatter |
monastic endowment
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religious dedication ⓘ temple construction ⓘ |
| writingSystem | Sanskrit ⓘ |
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: Kalasan inscription Description of subject: The Kalasan inscription is an 8th-century stone inscription from Central Java that records a royal dedication to the Buddhist goddess Tara and provides key evidence about the early Medang (Mataram) Kingdom and its religious architecture.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.