New Jalpaiguri
E493552
New Jalpaiguri is a major railway junction in Siliguri, West Bengal, serving as a key gateway to the northeastern states and the eastern Himalayas, including popular destinations like Darjeeling and Sikkim.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| New Jalpaiguri canonical | 9 |
| New Jalpaiguri Junction | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5113597 — 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: New Jalpaiguri Context triple: [Bolpur Shantiniketan railway station, connectsTo, New Jalpaiguri]
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A.
Jalpaiguri
Jalpaiguri is a town in northeastern India known as an important administrative and commercial center near the Himalayan foothills.
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B.
Bhatpara
Bhatpara is an industrial and residential town in the North 24 Parganas district of West Bengal, India, known for its jute mills and dense urban population along the Hooghly River.
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C.
Siliguri
Siliguri is a major commercial and transportation hub in northeastern India, strategically located near the borders of Nepal, Bhutan, and Bangladesh and serving as the gateway to the Himalayan region.
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D.
Raiganj
Raiganj is a town in northern West Bengal, India, known as the headquarters of Uttar Dinajpur district and for its nearby Raiganj Wildlife Sanctuary.
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E.
Bolpur
Bolpur is a town in West Bengal, India, best known as the gateway to Santiniketan, the cultural and educational hub founded by Rabindranath Tagore.
- 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: New Jalpaiguri Target entity description: New Jalpaiguri is a major railway junction in Siliguri, West Bengal, serving as a key gateway to the northeastern states and the eastern Himalayas, including popular destinations like Darjeeling and Sikkim.
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A.
Jalpaiguri
Jalpaiguri is a town in northeastern India known as an important administrative and commercial center near the Himalayan foothills.
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B.
Bhatpara
Bhatpara is an industrial and residential town in the North 24 Parganas district of West Bengal, India, known for its jute mills and dense urban population along the Hooghly River.
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C.
Siliguri
Siliguri is a major commercial and transportation hub in northeastern India, strategically located near the borders of Nepal, Bhutan, and Bangladesh and serving as the gateway to the Himalayan region.
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D.
Raiganj
Raiganj is a town in northern West Bengal, India, known as the headquarters of Uttar Dinajpur district and for its nearby Raiganj Wildlife Sanctuary.
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E.
Bolpur
Bolpur is a town in West Bengal, India, best known as the gateway to Santiniketan, the cultural and educational hub founded by Rabindranath Tagore.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
railway junction
ⓘ
railway station ⓘ |
| connectedTo | Darjeeling Himalayan Railway ⓘ |
| connectsTo |
Alipurduar
ⓘ
Delhi ⓘ Dibrugarh ⓘ Guwahati ⓘ Kolkata ⓘ
linked to:
Calcutta
New Delhi–Howrah main line ⓘ
linked to:
Howrah–Delhi main line
Northeast India rail network ⓘ
linked to:
Northeast Frontier Railway (partly)
|
| country | India ⓘ |
| hasFacility |
freight services
ⓘ
long-distance express trains ⓘ passenger trains ⓘ |
| hasImportance |
key transport hub for eastern Himalayas
ⓘ
strategic rail hub for Northeast India ⓘ |
| hasService |
broad-gauge trains
ⓘ
narrow-gauge trains via Darjeeling Himalayan Railway ⓘ |
| hasStationCode | NJP ⓘ |
| isGatewayForTourism |
Darjeeling tourism
ⓘ
Dooars region ⓘ Sikkim tourism ⓘ |
| isMajorJunctionFor |
trains to Arunachal Pradesh
ⓘ
trains to Assam ⓘ trains to Manipur ⓘ trains to Meghalaya (via connecting routes) ⓘ trains to Nagaland ⓘ trains to Tripura ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Siliguri
ⓘ
West Bengal ⓘ eastern India ⓘ |
| near |
Bagdogra Airport
ⓘ
Siliguri Junction railway station ⓘ |
| operatedBy | Indian Railways ⓘ |
| railwayDivision | Katihar railway division ⓘ |
| railwayZone |
Northeast Frontier Railway
ⓘ
linked to:
Northeast Frontier Railway (partly)
|
| region | Terai region of West Bengal ⓘ |
| serves |
Darjeeling district
ⓘ
linked to:
Darjeeling subdivision
city of Siliguri ⓘ
linked to:
Siliguri
|
| servesAs |
gateway to Darjeeling
ⓘ
gateway to Sikkim ⓘ gateway to northeastern states of India ⓘ gateway to the eastern Himalayas ⓘ transit point for Bhutan-bound travelers ⓘ transit point for Nepal-bound travelers ⓘ |
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: New Jalpaiguri Description of subject: New Jalpaiguri is a major railway junction in Siliguri, West Bengal, serving as a key gateway to the northeastern states and the eastern Himalayas, including popular destinations like Darjeeling and Sikkim.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: New Jalpaiguri
subject linked to:
Northeast Frontier Railway (partly)
linked to: New Jalpaiguri
linked to: New Jalpaiguri
subject linked to:
BHP