Sakya
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Sakya is one of the four major schools of Tibetan Buddhism, known for its distinctive scholastic tradition and influential role in Tibetan religious and political history.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sakya canonical | 1 |
| Sakya (place) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11785386 — 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: Sakya Context triple: [Tibetan Buddhism, hasMajorSchool, Sakya]
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A.
Phaplu
Phaplu is a small town in Nepal’s Solukhumbu region that serves as a quieter gateway for trekkers heading toward the Everest region and Everest Base Camp.
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B.
Lhasa de Sela
Lhasa de Sela was a Mexican-American singer-songwriter renowned for her haunting, multilingual vocals and genre-blending albums that drew from folk, Latin, and world music traditions.
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C.
Rangpo
Rangpo is a small town in the Indian state of Sikkim, known as a key gateway to the region and an important transit and trade point near the Sikkim–West Bengal border.
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D.
Yakthung
Yakthung is the endonym used by the Limbu people, an indigenous ethnic group of the eastern Himalayas known for their distinct language, script, and cultural traditions.
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E.
Barkhor
Barkhor is a historic devotional circuit and bustling market street encircling the Jokhang Temple in the old town of Lhasa, Tibet.
- 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: Sakya Target entity description: Sakya is one of the four major schools of Tibetan Buddhism, known for its distinctive scholastic tradition and influential role in Tibetan religious and political history.
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A.
Phaplu
Phaplu is a small town in Nepal’s Solukhumbu region that serves as a quieter gateway for trekkers heading toward the Everest region and Everest Base Camp.
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B.
Lhasa de Sela
Lhasa de Sela was a Mexican-American singer-songwriter renowned for her haunting, multilingual vocals and genre-blending albums that drew from folk, Latin, and world music traditions.
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C.
Rangpo
Rangpo is a small town in the Indian state of Sikkim, known as a key gateway to the region and an important transit and trade point near the Sikkim–West Bengal border.
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D.
Yakthung
Yakthung is the endonym used by the Limbu people, an indigenous ethnic group of the eastern Himalayas known for their distinct language, script, and cultural traditions.
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E.
Barkhor
Barkhor is a historic devotional circuit and bustling market street encircling the Jokhang Temple in the old town of Lhasa, Tibet.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (64)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Buddhist tradition
ⓘ
school of Tibetan Buddhism ⓘ |
| associatedWithMonastery | Sakya Monastery NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| corePhilosophy |
Madhyamaka
ⓘ
Prāsaṅgika-Madhyamaka interpretation ⓘ |
| coreTeaching | Lamdré (Path and its Fruit) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Tibet NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| emphasizes |
gradual path integrated with fruition view
ⓘ
union of sutra and tantra ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Khön Könchok Gyalpo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| founderFamily | Khön family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| foundingCentury | 11th century ⓘ |
| foundingEvent | establishment of Sakya Monastery ⓘ |
| foundingYearApprox | 1073 ⓘ |
| geographicSpread |
Bhutan
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
China NERFINISHED ⓘ India NERFINISHED ⓘ Nepal NERFINISHED ⓘ Tibet NERFINISHED ⓘ Western countries ⓘ |
| hasDiasporaCommunity |
Europe
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
India NERFINISHED ⓘ Nepal NERFINISHED ⓘ North America NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSubschool |
Dzongpa
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ngor NERFINISHED ⓘ Tsar ⓘ |
| historicalRole |
governing Tibet under Mongol patronage
ⓘ
political authority in Tibet ⓘ |
| influenced |
Tibetan legal system under Yuan rule
ⓘ
Tibetan monastic education ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Lamdré teaching system
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Madhyamaka exegesis ⓘ Tantric practice ⓘ philosophical rigor ⓘ scholastic tradition ⓘ |
| leadershipTitle | Sakya Trizin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| leadershipType |
Khön family lineage
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
hereditary lineage ⓘ |
| majorSchoolAlongside |
Gelug
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Kagyu NERFINISHED ⓘ Nyingma NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| monasticDiscipline | Vinaya of Mūlasarvāstivāda tradition NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nameEtymology | from Tibetan sa skya meaning "pale earth" ⓘ |
| notableLeader |
Chögyal Phagpa
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ngorchen Künga Zangpo NERFINISHED ⓘ Sakya Pandita NERFINISHED ⓘ Sakya Trizin Ngawang Kunga NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originCountry | Tibet NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originPlace | Sakya region NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originRegion | Tsang NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| patronPriestRelationshipWith | Kublai Khan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| politicalAlly |
Mongol Empire
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Yuan dynasty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| politicalPeakPeriod | 13th century ⓘ |
| practiceIncludes |
philosophical debate
ⓘ
ritual performance ⓘ sutra study ⓘ tantra practice ⓘ |
| religiousTextCorpus | Sakya collected works (Sakya Kabum) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religiousTraditionOf | Tibetan Buddhism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ritualColorAssociation | grey earth (sa skya, "pale earth") ⓘ |
| scripturalLanguage |
Classical Tibetan
NERFINISHED
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Sanskrit (source texts) ⓘ |
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: Sakya Description of subject: Sakya is one of the four major schools of Tibetan Buddhism, known for its distinctive scholastic tradition and influential role in Tibetan religious and political history.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Sakya (place)