Tengyur
E946378
Tengyur is a major Tibetan Buddhist canonical collection comprising translations of Indian commentarial and scholastic works that explain and elaborate on the Buddha’s teachings.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tengyur canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11785393 — 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: Tengyur Context triple: [Tibetan Buddhism, hasCanonicalCollection, Tengyur]
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A.
Rgyalrong
Rgyalrong is a group of closely related Sino-Tibetan languages spoken primarily in western Sichuan, China, known for their complex morphology and conservative phonological features.
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B.
Zang Tumb Tuuum
Zang Tumb Tuuum is a seminal 1914 Futurist sound-poetry work by Italian artist Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, celebrated for its experimental typography and onomatopoeic evocation of modern warfare.
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C.
Wayin
Wayin is a digital marketing and social media engagement platform co-founded by Sun Microsystems co-founder Scott McNealy.
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D.
Qiongwen
Qiongwen is another name for the Hainanese language, a Southern Min Chinese variety spoken primarily on China’s Hainan Island.
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E.
Kongde Ri
Kongde Ri is a prominent Himalayan peak in Nepal known for its striking multi-summited massif overlooking the Everest region.
- 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: Tengyur Target entity description: Tengyur is a major Tibetan Buddhist canonical collection comprising translations of Indian commentarial and scholastic works that explain and elaborate on the Buddha’s teachings.
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A.
Rgyalrong
Rgyalrong is a group of closely related Sino-Tibetan languages spoken primarily in western Sichuan, China, known for their complex morphology and conservative phonological features.
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B.
Zang Tumb Tuuum
Zang Tumb Tuuum is a seminal 1914 Futurist sound-poetry work by Italian artist Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, celebrated for its experimental typography and onomatopoeic evocation of modern warfare.
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C.
Wayin
Wayin is a digital marketing and social media engagement platform co-founded by Sun Microsystems co-founder Scott McNealy.
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D.
Qiongwen
Qiongwen is another name for the Hainanese language, a Southern Min Chinese variety spoken primarily on China’s Hainan Island.
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E.
Kongde Ri
Kongde Ri is a prominent Himalayan peak in Nepal known for its striking multi-summited massif overlooking the Everest region.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Buddhist scripture collection
ⓘ
Tibetan Buddhist canon ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Bstan ’gyur NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| alsoRomanizedAs | Tanjur NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| category | Buddhist commentarial corpus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| compiledIn | Tibet NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| complements | Kangyur NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| containsWorksBy |
Asaṅga
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Dharmakīrti NERFINISHED ⓘ Dignāga NERFINISHED ⓘ Indian Buddhist scholars ⓘ Nāgārjuna NERFINISHED ⓘ Vasubandhu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| describedAs |
translation of commentaries
ⓘ
translation of treatises ⓘ |
| etymology | Tibetan term meaning "translation of treatises" ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Abhidharma commentaries
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sūtra commentaries ⓘ Vinaya commentaries ⓘ arts and crafts treatises ⓘ commentarial literature ⓘ epistemology treatises ⓘ grammar treatises ⓘ logic treatises ⓘ medicine treatises ⓘ philosophical works ⓘ poetics treatises ⓘ tantric commentaries ⓘ treatises ⓘ śāstras ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | Tibetan imperial and post-imperial periods ⓘ |
| isCanonicalFor | Tibetan Buddhist monastic education ⓘ |
| language | Classical Tibetan ⓘ |
| originalLanguageOfSources |
Apabhraṃśa
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Prakrit ⓘ Sanskrit ⓘ |
| pairedWith | Kangyur NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf |
Tibetan Buddhist Tripiṭaka
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Tibetan Buddhist canon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| purpose |
to elaborate on canonical scriptures
ⓘ
to explain the Buddha’s teachings ⓘ |
| relatedCollection | Bka’ ’gyur (Kangyur) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Buddhism ⓘ |
| script | Tibetan script ⓘ |
| significance |
authoritative reference for Tibetan Buddhist philosophy
ⓘ
major source for Tibetan scholasticism ⓘ |
| tradition | Tibetan Buddhism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism NERFINISHED ⓘ Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism NERFINISHED ⓘ Sakya school of Tibetan Buddhism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Tengyur Description of subject: Tengyur is a major Tibetan Buddhist canonical collection comprising translations of Indian commentarial and scholastic works that explain and elaborate on the Buddha’s teachings.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.