Siliguri
E168294
Siliguri is a major commercial and transportation hub in northeastern India, strategically located near the borders of Nepal, Bhutan, and Bangladesh and serving as the gateway to the Himalayan region.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Siliguri canonical | 16 |
| Siliguri Junction | 1 |
| Siliguri Metropolitan Area | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1418156 — 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: Siliguri Context triple: [West Bengal, containsCity, Siliguri]
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A.
Dibrugarh
Dibrugarh is a prominent city in northeastern India known as a major commercial and industrial hub of Assam, especially for its tea industry and oil and natural gas sectors.
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B.
Midnapore
Midnapore is a historic town in the Indian state of West Bengal, known for its role in the Indian independence movement and its rich cultural and educational heritage.
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C.
Bolpur
Bolpur is a town in West Bengal, India, best known as the gateway to Santiniketan, the cultural and educational hub founded by Rabindranath Tagore.
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D.
Chandannagar
Chandannagar is a former French colonial town in West Bengal, India, known for its historic riverside architecture and cultural blend of French and Bengali influences.
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E.
Tezpur
Tezpur is a historic city in northeastern India known for its cultural heritage, archaeological sites, and scenic location on the banks of the Brahmaputra River.
- 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: Siliguri Target entity description: Siliguri is a major commercial and transportation hub in northeastern India, strategically located near the borders of Nepal, Bhutan, and Bangladesh and serving as the gateway to the Himalayan region.
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A.
Dibrugarh
Dibrugarh is a prominent city in northeastern India known as a major commercial and industrial hub of Assam, especially for its tea industry and oil and natural gas sectors.
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B.
Midnapore
Midnapore is a historic town in the Indian state of West Bengal, known for its role in the Indian independence movement and its rich cultural and educational heritage.
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C.
Bolpur
Bolpur is a town in West Bengal, India, best known as the gateway to Santiniketan, the cultural and educational hub founded by Rabindranath Tagore.
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D.
Chandannagar
Chandannagar is a former French colonial town in West Bengal, India, known for its historic riverside architecture and cultural blend of French and Bengali influences.
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E.
Tezpur
Tezpur is a historic city in northeastern India known for its cultural heritage, archaeological sites, and scenic location on the banks of the Brahmaputra River.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
city
ⓘ
human settlement ⓘ |
| borderWith |
People's Republic of Bangladesh (from East Pakistan)
ⓘ
surface form:
Bangladesh
|
| climate | humid subtropical climate ⓘ |
| commonlySpokenLanguage |
Hindi
ⓘ
Nepali ⓘ Rajbanshi language ⓘ
surface form:
Rajbanshi
|
| connectedBy |
National Highway 10
ⓘ
National Highway 27 NERFINISHED ⓘ broad-gauge railway network ⓘ Darjeeling Himalayan Railway ⓘ
surface form:
narrow-gauge railway (Darjeeling Himalayan Railway)
|
| country | India ⓘ |
| economicActivity |
tea trade
ⓘ
tourism services ⓘ trade ⓘ transport and logistics ⓘ |
| governedBy | Siliguri Municipal Corporation ⓘ |
| governmentType | municipal corporation ⓘ |
| hasAirport | Bagdogra Airport ⓘ |
| hasRailwayStation |
New Jalpaiguri
ⓘ
surface form:
New Jalpaiguri Junction
Siliguri self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Siliguri Junction
|
| hasRole |
commercial hub
ⓘ
gateway to the Himalayan region ⓘ gateway to the Northeast of India ⓘ transportation hub ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
West Bengal
ⓘ
eastern India ⓘ Northeast India ⓘ
surface form:
northeastern India
|
| locatedInAdministrativeTerritory |
Darjeeling
ⓘ
surface form:
Darjeeling district
Jalpaiguri ⓘ
surface form:
Jalpaiguri district
|
| locatedInRegion |
Dooars
ⓘ
surface form:
Dooars region
Terai ⓘ
surface form:
Terai region
|
| locatedNear | foothills of the Himalayas ⓘ |
| locatedNearBorderWith |
People's Republic of Bangladesh (from East Pakistan)
ⓘ
surface form:
Bangladesh
Bhutan ⓘ Nepal ⓘ |
| locatedOnRiver | Mahananda River ⓘ |
| locatedOnTransportCorridor |
Chicken’s Neck
ⓘ
Siliguri Corridor ⓘ |
| nearbyAirport | Bagdogra Airport ⓘ |
| nearbyTouristDestination |
Darjeeling
ⓘ
Gangtok ⓘ Kalimpong ⓘ |
| officialLanguage |
Bengali
ⓘ
English ⓘ |
| partOf |
Siliguri
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Siliguri Metropolitan Area
|
| river | Mahananda River ⓘ |
| timeZone | Indian Standard Time ⓘ |
| utcOffset | +05:30 ⓘ |
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: Siliguri Description of subject: Siliguri is a major commercial and transportation hub in northeastern India, strategically located near the borders of Nepal, Bhutan, and Bangladesh and serving as the gateway to the Himalayan region.
Referenced by (18)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
West Bengal
this entity surface form:
Siliguri Metropolitan Area
this entity surface form:
Siliguri Junction
subject surface form:
North Bengal (India)