Bombay, Bombay Presidency, British India
E1521476
UNEXPLORED
Bombay, Bombay Presidency, British India was a major colonial-era port city and commercial hub on the west coast of India, known today as Mumbai.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Bombay is now called Mumbai | 1 |
| Bombay, Bombay Presidency, British India canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T22146876 — 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: Bombay, Bombay Presidency, British India Context triple: [Eknath Solkar, birthPlace, Bombay, Bombay Presidency, British India]
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Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India
Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India was a major colonial-era metropolis and administrative center of British rule in eastern India, known today as Kolkata.
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B.
Khed, Bombay Presidency, British India
Khed, in the former Bombay Presidency of British India, was a small town in present-day Maharashtra notable as the birthplace of Indian revolutionary Shivaram Rajguru.
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Bhadeli, Bombay Presidency, British India
Bhadeli, Bombay Presidency, British India was a village in the former Bombay Presidency notable as the birthplace of future Indian Prime Minister Morarji Desai.
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D.
Nashik, Bombay Presidency, British India
Nashik, Bombay Presidency, British India was a prominent city in colonial western India that later became part of the modern Indian state of Maharashtra.
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E.
Pune region, Bombay Presidency, British India
Pune region, Bombay Presidency, British India was a prominent administrative and cultural area in western colonial India centered on the city of Pune under British rule.
- 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: Bombay, Bombay Presidency, British India Target entity description: Bombay, Bombay Presidency, British India was a major colonial-era port city and commercial hub on the west coast of India, known today as Mumbai.
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A.
Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India
Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India was a major colonial-era metropolis and administrative center of British rule in eastern India, known today as Kolkata.
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B.
Khed, Bombay Presidency, British India
Khed, in the former Bombay Presidency of British India, was a small town in present-day Maharashtra notable as the birthplace of Indian revolutionary Shivaram Rajguru.
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C.
Bhadeli, Bombay Presidency, British India
Bhadeli, Bombay Presidency, British India was a village in the former Bombay Presidency notable as the birthplace of future Indian Prime Minister Morarji Desai.
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D.
Nashik, Bombay Presidency, British India
Nashik, Bombay Presidency, British India was a prominent city in colonial western India that later became part of the modern Indian state of Maharashtra.
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E.
Pune region, Bombay Presidency, British India
Pune region, Bombay Presidency, British India was a prominent administrative and cultural area in western colonial India centered on the city of Pune under British rule.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Bombay, Bombay Presidency, British India