Bihar
E60958
Bihar is a populous state in eastern India known for its rich historical heritage, including ancient centers of learning like Nalanda and significant sites in Buddhist history.
All labels observed (16)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Bihar canonical | 875 |
| State of Bihar | 13 |
| state of Bihar | 11 |
| Bihar, India | 7 |
| Indian state of Bihar | 6 |
| Bihar Subah | 5 |
| Bihar state | 2 |
| present-day Bihar, India | 2 |
| BR (Bihar) | 1 |
| Bihar (parts) | 1 |
| Bihar Province | 1 |
| Bihar region | 1 |
| Bihar, British India | 1 |
| Gaya, Bihar, India | 1 |
| Geography of Bihar | 1 |
| India, state of Bihar | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T294032 — 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: Bihar Context triple: [Urdu, officialLanguageOf, Bihar]
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A.
Madhya Pradesh
Madhya Pradesh is a large central Indian state known for its historical cities, diverse tribal cultures, and significant forested and wildlife areas including several major national parks.
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B.
Chhattisgarh
Chhattisgarh is a state in central India known for its rich mineral resources, dense forests, tribal cultures, and growing industrial and power sectors.
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C.
West Bengal
West Bengal is an eastern Indian state known for its cultural heritage, literature, and the metropolis of Kolkata (formerly Calcutta).
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D.
Uttar Pradesh
Uttar Pradesh is a populous northern Indian state known for its political influence, rich cultural and religious heritage, and historic cities such as Varanasi and Agra.
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E.
Assam
Assam is a northeastern region of the Indian subcontinent known for its tea plantations, rich biodiversity, and distinct cultural heritage.
- 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: Bihar Target entity description: Bihar is a populous state in eastern India known for its rich historical heritage, including ancient centers of learning like Nalanda and significant sites in Buddhist history.
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A.
Madhya Pradesh
Madhya Pradesh is a large central Indian state known for its historical cities, diverse tribal cultures, and significant forested and wildlife areas including several major national parks.
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B.
Chhattisgarh
Chhattisgarh is a state in central India known for its rich mineral resources, dense forests, tribal cultures, and growing industrial and power sectors.
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C.
West Bengal
West Bengal is an eastern Indian state known for its cultural heritage, literature, and the metropolis of Kolkata (formerly Calcutta).
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D.
Uttar Pradesh
Uttar Pradesh is a populous northern Indian state known for its political influence, rich cultural and religious heritage, and historic cities such as Varanasi and Agra.
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E.
Assam
Assam is a northeastern region of the Indian subcontinent known for its tea plantations, rich biodiversity, and distinct cultural heritage.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (101)
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: Bihar Description of subject: Bihar is a populous state in eastern India known for its rich historical heritage, including ancient centers of learning like Nalanda and significant sites in Buddhist history.
Referenced by (929)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Urdu
subject surface form:
Northern India
subject surface form:
West Bengal
subject surface form:
Eastern India
this entity surface form:
Bihar Province
subject surface form:
Shah Alam II
subject surface form:
Shah Alam II
this entity surface form:
present-day Bihar, India
this entity surface form:
present-day Bihar, India