Rajgir
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Rajgir is an ancient town in the Indian state of Bihar, historically significant as a major center for both Buddhism and Jainism and once the capital of the Magadha kingdom.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Rajgir canonical | 5 |
| Rajagriha | 3 |
| Rajgir area | 1 |
| Rājagṛha | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2749848 — 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: Rajgir Context triple: [Bihar, containsCity, Rajgir]
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A.
Sitamarhi
Sitamarhi is a town in the Indian state of Bihar, historically associated with the legend of Sita’s birthplace and serving as an important local commercial and cultural center.
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B.
Pataliputra
Pataliputra was an ancient Indian city on the Ganges that served as a major political and cultural center, especially under powerful dynasties like the Maurya and Gupta empires.
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C.
Bhagalpur
Bhagalpur is a historic city in the eastern Indian state of Bihar, known for its silk industry and location along the Ganges River.
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D.
Orchha
Orchha is a historic town in central India renowned for its medieval palaces, temples, and riverside cenotaphs built by the Bundela Rajput rulers.
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E.
Kannauj
Kannauj is a historic town and parliamentary constituency in Uttar Pradesh, India, renowned for its ancient heritage and traditional perfume (attar) industry.
- 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: Rajgir Target entity description: Rajgir is an ancient town in the Indian state of Bihar, historically significant as a major center for both Buddhism and Jainism and once the capital of the Magadha kingdom.
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A.
Sitamarhi
Sitamarhi is a town in the Indian state of Bihar, historically associated with the legend of Sita’s birthplace and serving as an important local commercial and cultural center.
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B.
Pataliputra
Pataliputra was an ancient Indian city on the Ganges that served as a major political and cultural center, especially under powerful dynasties like the Maurya and Gupta empires.
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C.
Bhagalpur
Bhagalpur is a historic city in the eastern Indian state of Bihar, known for its silk industry and location along the Ganges River.
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D.
Orchha
Orchha is a historic town in central India renowned for its medieval palaces, temples, and riverside cenotaphs built by the Bundela Rajput rulers.
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E.
Kannauj
Kannauj is a historic town and parliamentary constituency in Uttar Pradesh, India, renowned for its ancient heritage and traditional perfume (attar) industry.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Rajgir Description of subject: Rajgir is an ancient town in the Indian state of Bihar, historically significant as a major center for both Buddhism and Jainism and once the capital of the Magadha kingdom.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Rajagriha
this entity surface form:
Rajagriha
this entity surface form:
Rajgir area