Katra
E443106
Katra is a town in the Reasi district of Jammu and Kashmir, India, best known as the base camp for pilgrims visiting the Vaishno Devi shrine in the Trikuta Mountains.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Katra canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4460357 — 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: Katra Context triple: [Chenab Rail Bridge, locatedNear, Katra]
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A.
Bairat
Bairat is a historic town in Rajasthan, India, known for its ancient Buddhist archaeological remains and connections to the Mauryan period.
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B.
Katihar
Katihar is a city in eastern India known as a major railway junction and commercial center in the state of Bihar.
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C.
Kalka
Kalka is a town in the Indian state of Haryana, known as a gateway to the Himalayan hill stations and the starting point of the Kalka–Shimla railway.
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D.
Kawardha
Kawardha is a regional dialect of the Chhattisgarhi language spoken in parts of the Indian state of Chhattisgarh.
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E.
Kathiawari
Kathiawari is a regional dialect of Gujarati spoken primarily in the Saurashtra (Kathiawar) peninsula of western India, known for its distinct phonetic and lexical features.
- 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: Katra Target entity description: Katra is a town in the Reasi district of Jammu and Kashmir, India, best known as the base camp for pilgrims visiting the Vaishno Devi shrine in the Trikuta Mountains.
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A.
Bairat
Bairat is a historic town in Rajasthan, India, known for its ancient Buddhist archaeological remains and connections to the Mauryan period.
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B.
Katihar
Katihar is a city in eastern India known as a major railway junction and commercial center in the state of Bihar.
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C.
Kalka
Kalka is a town in the Indian state of Haryana, known as a gateway to the Himalayan hill stations and the starting point of the Kalka–Shimla railway.
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D.
Kawardha
Kawardha is a regional dialect of the Chhattisgarhi language spoken in parts of the Indian state of Chhattisgarh.
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E.
Kathiawari
Kathiawari is a regional dialect of Gujarati spoken primarily in the Saurashtra (Kathiawar) peninsula of western India, known for its distinct phonetic and lexical features.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human settlement
ⓘ
town ⓘ |
| climate | subtropical to temperate ⓘ |
| commonlySpokenLanguage |
Dogri
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
English ⓘ Punjabi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| connectedTo |
Jammu
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Udhampur NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coordinateLocation | 33.03°N 74.95°E ⓘ |
| country | India ⓘ |
| distanceTo |
Jammu ~42 km by road
ⓘ
Vaishno Devi Temple ~13 km by trek ⓘ |
| elevationAboveSeaLevel |
approximately 2870 feet
ⓘ
approximately 875 metres ⓘ |
| governingBody | Reasi district administration NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAccommodationType |
dharamshalas
ⓘ
guest houses ⓘ hotels ⓘ |
| hasNearbyPlaceOfWorship | Vaishno Devi Temple NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPilgrimageRoute | Katra–Banganga–Charan Paduka–Ardhkuwari–Sanjichhat–Bhawan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTransportConnection | Katra railway station NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTypeOfTourism |
religious tourism
ⓘ
trekking ⓘ |
| knownFor | base camp for Vaishno Devi pilgrimage ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeTerritory |
Jammu and Kashmir
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Reasi district NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInMountainRange | Trikuta Mountains NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | Jammu region NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInValley | foothills of Trikuta range ⓘ |
| locatedOnLandmass | Indian subcontinent NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nearestMajorCity | Jammu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| officialLanguage |
Hindi
ⓘ
Urdu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Union territory of Jammu and Kashmir NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| peakTouristSeason | Navratri festivals ⓘ |
| pilgrimageSeason | year-round ⓘ |
| postalCode | 182301 ⓘ |
| primaryEconomicActivity |
hospitality industry
ⓘ
pilgrimage tourism ⓘ |
| railwayStationServes | Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Katra railway station NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religionAssociated | Hinduism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| roadNetwork | National Highway connections via Jammu ⓘ |
| timeZone | Indian Standard Time ⓘ |
| touristAttraction |
Ardhkuwari Cave
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Banganga NERFINISHED ⓘ Sanjichhat NERFINISHED ⓘ Vaishno Devi Bhawan (via Katra base) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| UTCOffset | +05:30 ⓘ |
| vehicleRegistrationCode | JK ⓘ |
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: Katra Description of subject: Katra is a town in the Reasi district of Jammu and Kashmir, India, best known as the base camp for pilgrims visiting the Vaishno Devi shrine in the Trikuta Mountains.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.