Sambisari temple
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Sambisari Temple is a 9th-century Hindu Shiva temple buried for centuries under volcanic ash near Yogyakarta, Indonesia, and later excavated and restored as an important archaeological site of the Medang Kingdom.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Sambisari Temple | 4 |
| Sambisari Temple archaeological site | 1 |
| Sambisari temple canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T713979 — 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: Sambisari temple Context triple: [Medang Kingdom, hasPart, Sambisari temple]
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Sewu temple complex
Sewu temple complex is a large 8th-century Mahayana Buddhist temple compound near Prambanan in Central Java, Indonesia, notable as one of the oldest and second-largest Buddhist temple complexes on the island.
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B.
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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C.
Plaosan temple complex
Plaosan temple complex is a 9th-century Buddhist temple compound in Central Java, Indonesia, renowned for its twin main shrines and intricate stone reliefs.
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D.
Borobudur Temple
Borobudur Temple is a 9th-century Mahayana Buddhist monument in Central Java renowned for its massive stepped pyramid structure and intricate stone reliefs, and is one of the most important archaeological and pilgrimage sites in Southeast Asia.
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E.
Temple of Amada
The Temple of Amada is an ancient Egyptian temple in Nubia, renowned as one of the region’s oldest surviving temples and noted for its finely preserved reliefs and inscriptions.
- 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: Sambisari temple Target entity description: Sambisari Temple is a 9th-century Hindu Shiva temple buried for centuries under volcanic ash near Yogyakarta, Indonesia, and later excavated and restored as an important archaeological site of the Medang Kingdom.
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A.
Sewu temple complex
Sewu temple complex is a large 8th-century Mahayana Buddhist temple compound near Prambanan in Central Java, Indonesia, notable as one of the oldest and second-largest Buddhist temple complexes on the island.
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B.
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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C.
Plaosan temple complex
Plaosan temple complex is a 9th-century Buddhist temple compound in Central Java, Indonesia, renowned for its twin main shrines and intricate stone reliefs.
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D.
Borobudur Temple
Borobudur Temple is a 9th-century Mahayana Buddhist monument in Central Java renowned for its massive stepped pyramid structure and intricate stone reliefs, and is one of the most important archaeological and pilgrimage sites in Southeast Asia.
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E.
Temple of Amada
The Temple of Amada is an ancient Egyptian temple in Nubia, renowned as one of the region’s oldest surviving temples and noted for its finely preserved reliefs and inscriptions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Hindu temple
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Shiva temple ⓘ archaeological site ⓘ candi ⓘ |
| builtDuring | Medang Kingdom ⓘ |
| buriedBy | volcanic ash ⓘ |
| buriedFor | centuries ⓘ |
| constructionCentury | 9th century ⓘ |
| country | Indonesia ⓘ |
| currentUse |
archaeological research site
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tourist attraction ⓘ |
| dedicatedTo | Shiva ⓘ |
| discoveredBy | local farmer ⓘ |
| discoveredIn | 1966 ⓘ |
| elevationRelativeToGround | below surrounding ground level ⓘ |
| excavationEnd | 1980s ⓘ |
| excavationStart | 1966 ⓘ |
| hasArchitecturalStyle | Central Javanese Hindu architecture ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
Agastya statue
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lingga and yoni ⓘ main temple (candi utama) ⓘ statue of Durga Mahisasuramardini ⓘ Ganesha ⓘ
surface form:
statue of Ganesha
Nataraja sculptures ⓘ
surface form:
statue of Shiva
sunken courtyard ⓘ surrounding stone walls ⓘ three perwara temples ⓘ |
| hasOrientation | east ⓘ |
| hasProtectionStatus | protected cultural heritage site ⓘ |
| heritage | Medang Kingdom ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Central Java region
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surface form:
Central Java cultural region
Kalasan District ⓘ Purwomartani ⓘ Sleman Regency ⓘ Special Region of Yogyakarta ⓘ
surface form:
Yogyakarta Special Region
|
| locatedNear | Yogyakarta ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Java ⓘ |
| managedBy | Archaeological Heritage Preservation Agency of Yogyakarta ⓘ |
| materialUsed | andesite stone ⓘ |
| nearbyCity | Yogyakarta ⓘ |
| nearbySite |
Kalasan Temple
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Prambanan Temple ⓘ Sari Temple ⓘ |
| region | southern slopes of Mount Merapi ⓘ |
| religion | Hinduism ⓘ |
| restoredIn | 1980s ⓘ |
| tourismType | cultural tourism site ⓘ |
| usedFor | religious rituals (historically) ⓘ |
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: Sambisari temple Description of subject: Sambisari Temple is a 9th-century Hindu Shiva temple buried for centuries under volcanic ash near Yogyakarta, Indonesia, and later excavated and restored as an important archaeological site of the Medang Kingdom.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Sambisari Temple
this entity surface form:
Sambisari Temple archaeological site
this entity surface form:
Sambisari Temple
this entity surface form:
Sambisari Temple
this entity surface form:
Sambisari Temple