Rock Shelters of Bhimbetka

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World Heritage Site archaeological site prehistoric art site rock shelter complex

The Rock Shelters of Bhimbetka are a UNESCO World Heritage Site in central India renowned for their prehistoric cave paintings and evidence of early human habitation spanning the Paleolithic to the medieval period.

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Label	Occurrences
Rock Shelters of Bhimbetka canonical	7
Bhimbetka rock shelters	5
Bhimbetka	2
Bhimbetka rock art site	1
Bhimbetka sandstone cliffs	1
Bhimbetka village area	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T879482 — 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: Rock Shelters of Bhimbetka
Context triple: [Madhya Pradesh, hasWorldHeritageSite, Rock Shelters of Bhimbetka]

A. Rock-Art Sites of Tadrart Acacus
Rock-Art Sites of Tadrart Acacus is a UNESCO World Heritage-listed desert region in southwestern Libya renowned for its thousands of prehistoric rock paintings and carvings that document over 12,000 years of human history and environmental change.
B. Arlington Springs Man site
The Arlington Springs Man site is a significant Paleoindian archaeological locality on Santa Rosa Island in California, where some of the oldest known human remains in North America were discovered.
C. Hill Forts of Rajasthan
Hill Forts of Rajasthan is a UNESCO World Heritage ensemble of majestic Rajput military hill forts in India, renowned for their distinctive architecture, strategic locations, and historical significance.
D. Khomanani Cultural Landscape
Khomanani Cultural Landscape is a UNESCO World Heritage Site in South Africa recognized for its culturally significant landscapes shaped by long-standing interactions between local communities and their environment.
E. Khami Ruins
Khami Ruins is an archaeological site in southwestern Zimbabwe featuring the stone-built remains of a precolonial African city that succeeded Great Zimbabwe as a major political and trading center.
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: Rock Shelters of Bhimbetka
Target entity description: The Rock Shelters of Bhimbetka are a UNESCO World Heritage Site in central India renowned for their prehistoric cave paintings and evidence of early human habitation spanning the Paleolithic to the medieval period.

A. Rock-Art Sites of Tadrart Acacus
Rock-Art Sites of Tadrart Acacus is a UNESCO World Heritage-listed desert region in southwestern Libya renowned for its thousands of prehistoric rock paintings and carvings that document over 12,000 years of human history and environmental change.
B. Arlington Springs Man site
The Arlington Springs Man site is a significant Paleoindian archaeological locality on Santa Rosa Island in California, where some of the oldest known human remains in North America were discovered.
C. Hill Forts of Rajasthan
Hill Forts of Rajasthan is a UNESCO World Heritage ensemble of majestic Rajput military hill forts in India, renowned for their distinctive architecture, strategic locations, and historical significance.
D. Khomanani Cultural Landscape
Khomanani Cultural Landscape is a UNESCO World Heritage Site in South Africa recognized for its culturally significant landscapes shaped by long-standing interactions between local communities and their environment.
E. Khami Ruins
Khami Ruins is an archaeological site in southwestern Zimbabwe featuring the stone-built remains of a precolonial African city that succeeded Great Zimbabwe as a major political and trading center.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (47)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	World Heritage Site ⓘ archaeological site ⓘ prehistoric art site ⓘ rock shelter complex ⓘ
associatedWith	South Asian Stone Age ⓘ
country	India ⓘ
culturalRegion	Central India ⓘ
discoveredBy	Vishnu Shridhar Wakankar ⓘ
discoveryDate	1957 ⓘ
distanceFromBhopal	about 45 km southeast ⓘ
earliestPaintingsDateTo	at least 30,000 years ago ⓘ
hasDepictionsOf	animals ⓘ dancing figures ⓘ geometric patterns ⓘ hunting scenes ⓘ warfare scenes ⓘ
hasEarliestEvidenceFrom	Paleolithic period ⓘ
hasEvidenceFrom	Chalcolithic period ⓘ Mesolithic period ⓘ Neolithic period ⓘ early historic period ⓘ medieval period ⓘ
hasSignificance	continuous cultural sequence from Stone Age to historic period ⓘ one of the earliest traces of human life on the Indian subcontinent ⓘ
inscribedOnUNESCOWorldHeritageListAt	27th session of the World Heritage Committee ⓘ
inscriptionLocation	Paris ⓘ
knownFor	evidence of early human habitation ⓘ prehistoric cave paintings ⓘ rock art ⓘ
locatedIn	Madhya Pradesh ⓘ Raisen district ⓘ Vindhya Range ⓘ
locatedNear	Bhopal ⓘ
managementAuthority	Archaeological Survey of India ⓘ
nearestCity	Bhopal ⓘ
numberOfPaintedShelters	about 400 ⓘ
numberOfRockShelters	more than 700 ⓘ
paintingsColorsInclude	green ⓘ red ⓘ white ⓘ yellow ⓘ
paintingsMadeWith	natural pigments ⓘ
partOf	Ratapani Wildlife Sanctuary buffer zone ⓘ
UNESCOWorldHeritageCategory	Cultural ⓘ
UNESCOWorldHeritageCriteria	(iii) ⓘ (v) ⓘ
UNESCOWorldHeritageSiteSince	2003 ⓘ

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Referenced by (17)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Madhya Pradesh → hasWorldHeritageSite → Rock Shelters of Bhimbetka ⓘ

Raisen district → contains → Rock Shelters of Bhimbetka ⓘ

Raisen district → contains → Bhimbetka rock shelters ⓘ