Kingdom of Kotte
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The Kingdom of Kotte was a powerful Sinhalese monarchy in southwestern Sri Lanka that flourished from the 15th to the 16th century and became a major center of politics, trade, and Buddhism before its decline and partition.
All labels observed (10)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kingdom of Kotte canonical | 15 |
| Kotte Kingdom | 8 |
| House of Kotte | 2 |
| King of Kotte | 1 |
| Kingdom of Sitawaka | 1 |
| Kotte Kingdom royal family | 1 |
| Kotte dynasty | 1 |
| Kotte period | 1 |
| Sri Lankan kingdom of Kotte | 1 |
| conflicts with Kotte Kingdom | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T682413 — 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: Kingdom of Kotte Context triple: [Kingdom of Kandy, predecessor, Kingdom of Kotte]
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A.
Dominion of Ceylon
The Dominion of Ceylon was a British Commonwealth realm in South Asia that existed from 1948 to 1972, when it became the fully independent republic of Sri Lanka.
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B.
Medang Kingdom
The Medang Kingdom was an early medieval Javanese Hindu-Buddhist polity in Central and later East Java, known for its temple complexes and role in the development of classical Javanese culture.
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C.
Kingdom of Kandy (interior Sri Lanka)
The Kingdom of Kandy was an independent Sinhalese monarchy in the central highlands of Sri Lanka that long resisted European colonial control before finally falling to the British in 1815.
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D.
Pattani Sultanate
The Pattani Sultanate was a historic Malay Muslim kingdom in the southern Thai-Malay Peninsula, known as a major regional center of trade, Islamic scholarship, and culture from the late medieval period until its decline under Siamese domination.
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E.
Jaffna
Jaffna is a historic city in northern Sri Lanka, known as a cultural and political center of Sri Lankan Tamils and for its strategic coastal location.
- 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: Kingdom of Kotte Target entity description: The Kingdom of Kotte was a powerful Sinhalese monarchy in southwestern Sri Lanka that flourished from the 15th to the 16th century and became a major center of politics, trade, and Buddhism before its decline and partition.
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A.
Dominion of Ceylon
The Dominion of Ceylon was a British Commonwealth realm in South Asia that existed from 1948 to 1972, when it became the fully independent republic of Sri Lanka.
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B.
Medang Kingdom
The Medang Kingdom was an early medieval Javanese Hindu-Buddhist polity in Central and later East Java, known for its temple complexes and role in the development of classical Javanese culture.
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C.
Kingdom of Kandy (interior Sri Lanka)
The Kingdom of Kandy was an independent Sinhalese monarchy in the central highlands of Sri Lanka that long resisted European colonial control before finally falling to the British in 1815.
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D.
Pattani Sultanate
The Pattani Sultanate was a historic Malay Muslim kingdom in the southern Thai-Malay Peninsula, known as a major regional center of trade, Islamic scholarship, and culture from the late medieval period until its decline under Siamese domination.
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E.
Jaffna
Jaffna is a historic city in northern Sri Lanka, known as a cultural and political center of Sri Lankan Tamils and for its strategic coastal location.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (53)
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: Kingdom of Kotte Description of subject: The Kingdom of Kotte was a powerful Sinhalese monarchy in southwestern Sri Lanka that flourished from the 15th to the 16th century and became a major center of politics, trade, and Buddhism before its decline and partition.
Referenced by (32)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Kingdom of Kandy
subject surface form:
Kingdom of Kandy
this entity surface form:
Kingdom of Sitawaka
this entity surface form:
Kotte Kingdom
this entity surface form:
Kotte Kingdom
this entity surface form:
Sri Lankan kingdom of Kotte
this entity surface form:
House of Kotte
this entity surface form:
King of Kotte
this entity surface form:
Kotte period
this entity surface form:
Kotte Kingdom
this entity surface form:
Kotte Kingdom royal family
this entity surface form:
Kotte Kingdom
this entity surface form:
Kotte Kingdom
this entity surface form:
conflicts with Kotte Kingdom
this entity surface form:
Kotte Kingdom
this entity surface form:
Kotte dynasty
this entity surface form:
House of Kotte
this entity surface form:
Kotte Kingdom
this entity surface form:
Kotte Kingdom