Aurangabad
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Aurangabad is a historic city in the Indian state of Maharashtra, known for its rich cultural heritage and proximity to UNESCO World Heritage Sites like the Ajanta and Ellora Caves.
All labels observed (8)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Aurangabad canonical | 29 |
| Aurangabad district | 13 |
| Aurangabad city | 4 |
| Aurangabad division | 2 |
| Aurangabad, Maharashtra | 2 |
| Aurangabad, India | 1 |
| Daulatabad | 1 |
| city of Khadki (later Aurangabad, according to some traditions) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T176544 — 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: Aurangabad Context triple: [Marathi language, spokenIn, Aurangabad]
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A.
Nashik
Nashik is a historic city in the Indian state of Maharashtra, known for its religious significance in Hinduism and as a major center of wine production.
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B.
Nagpur
Nagpur is a major city in the Indian state of Maharashtra, known as a key political and commercial center and often referred to as the "Orange City" for its famous orange production.
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C.
Allahabad
Allahabad, officially known as Prayagraj, is a major city in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, historically significant as a political and cultural center and as a prominent site of the Kumbh Mela at the confluence of the Ganges, Yamuna, and mythical Saraswati rivers.
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D.
Hyderabad
Hyderabad is a major city in southern India known for its historic Charminar monument, rich Hyderabadi cuisine, and growing technology industry.
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E.
Jhansi
Jhansi is a historic city in northern India, renowned for its strategic fort and its central role in the 1857 uprising against British colonial 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: Aurangabad Target entity description: Aurangabad is a historic city in the Indian state of Maharashtra, known for its rich cultural heritage and proximity to UNESCO World Heritage Sites like the Ajanta and Ellora Caves.
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A.
Nashik
Nashik is a historic city in the Indian state of Maharashtra, known for its religious significance in Hinduism and as a major center of wine production.
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B.
Nagpur
Nagpur is a major city in the Indian state of Maharashtra, known as a key political and commercial center and often referred to as the "Orange City" for its famous orange production.
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C.
Allahabad
Allahabad, officially known as Prayagraj, is a major city in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, historically significant as a political and cultural center and as a prominent site of the Kumbh Mela at the confluence of the Ganges, Yamuna, and mythical Saraswati rivers.
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D.
Hyderabad
Hyderabad is a major city in southern India known for its historic Charminar monument, rich Hyderabadi cuisine, and growing technology industry.
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E.
Jhansi
Jhansi is a historic city in northern India, renowned for its strategic fort and its central role in the 1857 uprising against British colonial rule.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
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: Aurangabad Description of subject: Aurangabad is a historic city in the Indian state of Maharashtra, known for its rich cultural heritage and proximity to UNESCO World Heritage Sites like the Ajanta and Ellora Caves.
Referenced by (53)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Aurangabad division
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Aurangabad district
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Aurangabad division
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Daulatabad
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Aurangabad district
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Aurangabad, Maharashtra
this entity surface form:
Aurangabad city
this entity surface form:
Aurangabad district
this entity surface form:
Aurangabad district
this entity surface form:
Aurangabad city
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Aurangabad district
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Aurangabad district
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city of Khadki (later Aurangabad, according to some traditions)
this entity surface form:
Aurangabad district
this entity surface form:
Aurangabad city
this entity surface form:
Aurangabad, Maharashtra
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Aurangabad, India
this entity surface form:
Aurangabad city
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Aurangabad district
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Buldhana district
this entity surface form:
Aurangabad district
this entity surface form:
Aurangabad district
this entity surface form:
Aurangabad district