Purnia district
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Purnia district is an administrative district in the northeastern part of Bihar, India, known for its agrarian economy and location within the culturally significant Mithila region.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Purnia district canonical | 29 |
| Purnia district administration | 1 |
| Purnia district, Bihar | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2300193 — 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: Purnia district Context triple: [Saharsa district, borderedBy, Purnia district]
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Muzaffarpur district
Muzaffarpur district is an administrative region in the Indian state of Bihar, known for its litchi production and as a commercial and educational hub in northern Bihar.
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B.
Samastipur district
Samastipur district is an administrative region in the Indian state of Bihar, known for its agricultural economy and cultural use of the Maithili language.
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C.
Khagaria district
Khagaria district is an administrative district in the state of Bihar, India, known for its location in the fertile plains of the Ganges and its vulnerability to frequent flooding.
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D.
Ballia district
Ballia district is an administrative region in the eastern part of Uttar Pradesh, India, historically notable as the birthplace of Indian independence revolutionary Mangal Pandey.
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E.
Darbhanga district
Darbhanga district is a region in the northern part of Bihar, India, known as a cultural and historical center of the Mithila area.
- 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: Purnia district Target entity description: Purnia district is an administrative district in the northeastern part of Bihar, India, known for its agrarian economy and location within the culturally significant Mithila region.
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A.
Muzaffarpur district
Muzaffarpur district is an administrative region in the Indian state of Bihar, known for its litchi production and as a commercial and educational hub in northern Bihar.
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B.
Samastipur district
Samastipur district is an administrative region in the Indian state of Bihar, known for its agricultural economy and cultural use of the Maithili language.
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C.
Khagaria district
Khagaria district is an administrative district in the state of Bihar, India, known for its location in the fertile plains of the Ganges and its vulnerability to frequent flooding.
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D.
Ballia district
Ballia district is an administrative region in the eastern part of Uttar Pradesh, India, historically notable as the birthplace of Indian independence revolutionary Mangal Pandey.
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E.
Darbhanga district
Darbhanga district is a region in the northern part of Bihar, India, known as a cultural and historical center of the Mithila area.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Purnia district Description of subject: Purnia district is an administrative district in the northeastern part of Bihar, India, known for its agrarian economy and location within the culturally significant Mithila region.
Referenced by (31)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Purnia district
linked to: Purnia district