Buxar
E228633
Buxar is a historic town in the Indian state of Bihar, best known as the site of a pivotal 1764 battle that cemented British colonial dominance in northern India.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Buxar district | 18 |
| Buxar canonical | 15 |
| Buxar LS | 1 |
| Buxar city | 1 |
| Buxar region | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1456595 — 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: Buxar Context triple: [Battle of Buxar, location, Buxar]
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A.
Karimganj
Karimganj is a town in the Indian state of Assam, known as a commercial and administrative center near the India–Bangladesh border.
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B.
Jangipur
Jangipur is a town in the Murshidabad district of the Indian state of West Bengal, known for its administrative significance and proximity to the Ganges River.
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C.
Pabna
Pabna is a town and district in present-day Bangladesh, historically part of British India's Bengal region and known for its role in agrarian movements and regional administration.
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D.
Burhanpur
Burhanpur is a historic city in central India known for its Mughal-era architecture and strategic location on the banks of the Tapti River.
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E.
Purulia
Purulia is a town in eastern India known as the administrative headquarters of Purulia district and for its distinctive Chhau dance and scenic, hilly landscape.
- 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: Buxar Target entity description: Buxar is a historic town in the Indian state of Bihar, best known as the site of a pivotal 1764 battle that cemented British colonial dominance in northern India.
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A.
Karimganj
Karimganj is a town in the Indian state of Assam, known as a commercial and administrative center near the India–Bangladesh border.
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B.
Jangipur
Jangipur is a town in the Murshidabad district of the Indian state of West Bengal, known for its administrative significance and proximity to the Ganges River.
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C.
Pabna
Pabna is a town and district in present-day Bangladesh, historically part of British India's Bengal region and known for its role in agrarian movements and regional administration.
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D.
Burhanpur
Burhanpur is a historic city in central India known for its Mughal-era architecture and strategic location on the banks of the Tapti River.
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E.
Purulia
Purulia is a town in eastern India known as the administrative headquarters of Purulia district and for its distinctive Chhau dance and scenic, hilly landscape.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: Buxar Description of subject: Buxar is a historic town in the Indian state of Bihar, best known as the site of a pivotal 1764 battle that cemented British colonial dominance in northern India.
Referenced by (36)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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subject linked to:
western Bihar
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subject linked to:
western Bihar
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