Surkhet
E1020859
Surkhet is a major city in western Nepal that serves as the administrative and commercial hub of Karnali Province.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Surkhet District | 7 |
| Surkhet canonical | 2 |
| Surkhet Valley | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12993146 — 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: Surkhet Context triple: [Kohalpur, hasRoadConnectionTo, Surkhet]
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A.
Nepalgunj
Nepalgunj is a major city in southwestern Nepal known as a commercial and transportation hub near the Indian border.
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B.
Tikapur
Tikapur is a town in far‑western Nepal known for its planned urban layout and the large riverside Tikapur Park along the Karnali River.
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C.
Sankhuwasabha District
Sankhuwasabha District is a mountainous district in eastern Nepal known for encompassing part of the Himalayas, including the area around Mount Makalu.
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D.
Ghorahi
Ghorahi is a major city in western Nepal known as an administrative, commercial, and educational hub of the Dang Valley region.
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E.
Pokhara
Pokhara is a major lakeside city in central Nepal, known as a gateway to the Annapurna mountain range and a hub for trekking and adventure tourism.
- 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: Surkhet Target entity description: Surkhet is a major city in western Nepal that serves as the administrative and commercial hub of Karnali Province.
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A.
Nepalgunj
Nepalgunj is a major city in southwestern Nepal known as a commercial and transportation hub near the Indian border.
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B.
Tikapur
Tikapur is a town in far‑western Nepal known for its planned urban layout and the large riverside Tikapur Park along the Karnali River.
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C.
Sankhuwasabha District
Sankhuwasabha District is a mountainous district in eastern Nepal known for encompassing part of the Himalayas, including the area around Mount Makalu.
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D.
Ghorahi
Ghorahi is a major city in western Nepal known as an administrative, commercial, and educational hub of the Dang Valley region.
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E.
Pokhara
Pokhara is a major lakeside city in central Nepal, known as a gateway to the Annapurna mountain range and a hub for trekking and adventure tourism.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
city
ⓘ
human settlement ⓘ provincial capital ⓘ |
| administrativeCenterOf | Karnali Province ⓘ |
| airportIATAcode | SKH ⓘ |
| airportICAOcode | VNSK ⓘ |
| capitalOf | Karnali Province ⓘ |
| climate | subtropical ⓘ |
| connectedByHighway |
Karnali Highway
ⓘ
Ratna Highway ⓘ |
| country | Nepal ⓘ |
| distanceFrom | about 600 km west of Kathmandu ⓘ |
| governingBody | Birendranagar Municipality ⓘ |
| hasAirport | Surkhet Airport ⓘ |
| hasEducationalInstitutionType |
colleges
ⓘ
schools ⓘ |
| hasHealthFacilityType |
health posts
ⓘ
hospitals ⓘ |
| hasMunicipality | Birendranagar ⓘ |
| is |
administrative hub of Karnali Province
ⓘ
commercial hub of Karnali Province ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | Nepali ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Karnali Province
ⓘ
western Nepal ⓘ |
| locatedInRiverValleyOf |
Bheri River basin
ⓘ
linked to:
Bheri River
|
| namedAfter |
Surkhet Valley
ⓘ
linked to:
Surkhet
|
| partOf |
Surkhet District
ⓘ
linked to:
Surkhet
|
| primaryEconomicActivities |
agriculture
ⓘ
services ⓘ trade ⓘ |
| region |
Mid-Western Nepal
ⓘ
linked to:
mid-western Nepal
|
| role |
administrative center for government offices in Karnali Province
ⓘ
commercial center for Karnali Province ⓘ transportation hub for Karnali Province ⓘ |
| servesAsGatewayTo |
Dolpa
ⓘ
linked to:
Dolpa region
Jumla ⓘ Mugu ⓘ remote districts of Karnali Province ⓘ |
| timeZone | Nepal Time ⓘ |
| UTCOffset | +5:45 ⓘ |
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: Surkhet Description of subject: Surkhet is a major city in western Nepal that serves as the administrative and commercial hub of Karnali Province.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Surkhet
linked to: Surkhet
linked to: Surkhet
subject linked to:
Nepal (to the north, via its districts)
linked to: Surkhet
linked to: Surkhet
linked to: Surkhet
linked to: Surkhet