Maidan
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Maidan is a vast urban park and open field in central Kolkata, India, known as the city’s “lungs” and a major hub for recreation, sports, and public gatherings.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Maidan canonical | 2 |
| Maidan area | 1 |
| The Maidan | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7119930 — 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: Maidan Context triple: [Maidan area of Kolkata, alsoKnownAs, Maidan]
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A.
Maidan Nezalezhnosti
Maidan Nezalezhnosti is the central square of Kyiv and a key symbol of Ukrainian political life, known for major public gatherings and revolutionary protests.
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B.
Euromaidan
Euromaidan was a mass pro-European and anti-government protest movement in Ukraine from late 2013 to early 2014 that led to the ousting of President Viktor Yanukovych and a major shift in the country’s political direction.
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C.
Majdan Tatarski
Majdan Tatarski is a district of the city of Lublin in eastern Poland, known primarily as a residential neighborhood.
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D.
Balakliia
Balakliia is a town in Ukraine’s Kharkiv Oblast that gained prominence as a key frontline settlement during the 2022 Russian invasion.
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E.
Bucha
Bucha is a suburban town northwest of Kyiv in northern Ukraine, internationally known as the site of alleged war crimes and civilian massacres during the 2022 Russian invasion.
- 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: Maidan Target entity description: Maidan is a vast urban park and open field in central Kolkata, India, known as the city’s “lungs” and a major hub for recreation, sports, and public gatherings.
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A.
Maidan Nezalezhnosti
Maidan Nezalezhnosti is the central square of Kyiv and a key symbol of Ukrainian political life, known for major public gatherings and revolutionary protests.
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B.
Euromaidan
Euromaidan was a mass pro-European and anti-government protest movement in Ukraine from late 2013 to early 2014 that led to the ousting of President Viktor Yanukovych and a major shift in the country’s political direction.
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C.
Majdan Tatarski
Majdan Tatarski is a district of the city of Lublin in eastern Poland, known primarily as a residential neighborhood.
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D.
Balakliia
Balakliia is a town in Ukraine’s Kharkiv Oblast that gained prominence as a key frontline settlement during the 2022 Russian invasion.
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E.
Bucha
Bucha is a suburban town northwest of Kyiv in northern Ukraine, internationally known as the site of alleged war crimes and civilian massacres during the 2022 Russian invasion.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
open field
ⓘ
public park ⓘ urban park ⓘ |
| adjacentTo |
Chowringhee Road
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Eden Gardens NERFINISHED ⓘ Esplanade, Kolkata NERFINISHED ⓘ Fort William, Kolkata NERFINISHED ⓘ Red Road NERFINISHED ⓘ Victoria Memorial NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| city |
Calcutta
ⓘ
surface form:
Kolkata
|
| climateImpact | helps reduce air pollution in Kolkata ⓘ |
| country | India ⓘ |
| environmentalRole | major urban green lung ⓘ |
| governedBy | Government of West Bengal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
open grassy fields
ⓘ
sports grounds ⓘ trees and greenery ⓘ walking tracks ⓘ |
| hasViewOf |
Kolkata skyline
ⓘ
Victoria Memorial NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
cricket matches
ⓘ
football matches ⓘ horse racing vicinity ⓘ large open green space ⓘ political rallies ⓘ public gatherings ⓘ recreation ⓘ sports ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
India
ⓘ
West Bengal ⓘ |
| location | Kolkata NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | Indian Army NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| near | Hooghly River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nickname |
lungs of Kolkata
ⓘ
lungs of the city ⓘ |
| partOf | central Kolkata NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recreationRole | major hub for outdoor activities ⓘ |
| region | eastern India NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sportsRole | important center for field sports in Kolkata ⓘ |
| transportConnection |
Esplanade metro station
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Maidan metro station NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedFor |
cultural events
ⓘ
jogging ⓘ military parades vicinity ⓘ morning walks ⓘ picnics ⓘ public demonstrations ⓘ |
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: Maidan Description of subject: Maidan is a vast urban park and open field in central Kolkata, India, known as the city’s “lungs” and a major hub for recreation, sports, and public gatherings.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
The Maidan
this entity surface form:
Maidan area