Calcutta Botanic Garden

E643870

botanical garden heritage site tourist attraction

Calcutta Botanic Garden is a historic botanical garden in Kolkata, India, renowned for its extensive plant collections and its iconic Great Banyan tree.

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All labels observed (6)

Label	Occurrences
Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose Indian Botanic Garden	7
Botanical Gardens, Calcutta	1
Calcutta Botanic Garden canonical	1
Calcutta Botanical Garden	1
Indian Botanic Garden	1
Royal Botanic Garden, Calcutta	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7120105 — 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: Calcutta Botanic Garden
Context triple: [Nathaniel Wallich, employer, Calcutta Botanic Garden]

A. Indira Gandhi Memorial Botanical Garden
Indira Gandhi Memorial Botanical Garden is a public botanical garden in Barrackpore, India, featuring diverse plant collections and green spaces dedicated to recreation, education, and conservation.
B. Tagore Garden
Tagore Garden is a residential and commercial neighborhood in West Delhi, India, known for its markets, metro connectivity, and proximity to Rajouri Garden.
C. Brindavan Gardens
Brindavan Gardens is a famous terraced garden near Mysuru in Karnataka, India, renowned for its musical fountain show and illuminated water features.
D. Lalbagh Botanical Garden
Lalbagh Botanical Garden is a historic and expansive botanical garden in Bengaluru, India, renowned for its diverse plant collections, iconic glasshouse, and landscaped grounds.
E. Rock Garden
The Rock Garden is a landscaped area featuring carefully arranged rocks and alpine or drought-tolerant plants, designed to showcase naturalistic stone formations within Olbrich Botanical Gardens.
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: Calcutta Botanic Garden
Target entity description: Calcutta Botanic Garden is a historic botanical garden in Kolkata, India, renowned for its extensive plant collections and its iconic Great Banyan tree.

A. Indira Gandhi Memorial Botanical Garden
Indira Gandhi Memorial Botanical Garden is a public botanical garden in Barrackpore, India, featuring diverse plant collections and green spaces dedicated to recreation, education, and conservation.
B. Tagore Garden
Tagore Garden is a residential and commercial neighborhood in West Delhi, India, known for its markets, metro connectivity, and proximity to Rajouri Garden.
C. Brindavan Gardens
Brindavan Gardens is a famous terraced garden near Mysuru in Karnataka, India, renowned for its musical fountain show and illuminated water features.
D. Lalbagh Botanical Garden
Lalbagh Botanical Garden is a historic and expansive botanical garden in Bengaluru, India, renowned for its diverse plant collections, iconic glasshouse, and landscaped grounds.
E. Rock Garden
The Rock Garden is a landscaped area featuring carefully arranged rocks and alpine or drought-tolerant plants, designed to showcase naturalistic stone formations within Olbrich Botanical Gardens.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	botanical garden ⓘ heritage site ⓘ tourist attraction ⓘ
area	about 109 hectares ⓘ
city	Howrah district metropolitan area of Kolkata ⓘ linked to: Howrah urban agglomeration
climate	tropical wet-and-dry climate ⓘ
country	India ⓘ
ecosystemType	man-made garden ecosystem ⓘ
formerName	Indian Botanic Garden ⓘ linked to: Calcutta Botanic Garden Royal Botanic Garden, Calcutta ⓘ linked to: Calcutta Botanic Garden
foundedBy	Colonel Robert Kyd ⓘ East India Company ⓘ linked to: British East India Company
foundedIn	1787 ⓘ
hasCollection	aquatic plants ⓘ bamboo collection ⓘ medicinal plants ⓘ orchid collection ⓘ palm collection ⓘ subtropical plants ⓘ tropical plants ⓘ
hasDesignation	one of the oldest botanical gardens in India ⓘ
hasFacility	herbarium ⓘ lakes and ponds ⓘ library ⓘ nursery ⓘ
hasHabitat	lawn and grassland patches ⓘ shaded woodland areas ⓘ wetland areas ⓘ
hasNotableFeature	Great Banyan tree ⓘ linked to: Banyan
hasPath	avenues lined with trees ⓘ
hasView	Hooghly River ⓘ
knownFor	Great Banyan tree with one of the largest canopies in the world ⓘ extensive plant collections ⓘ
languageOfSignage	Bengali ⓘ English ⓘ
locatedIn	Kolkata ⓘ linked to: Calcutta West Bengal ⓘ
locatedOn	west bank of the Hooghly River ⓘ
notableTree	Great Banyan tree ⓘ
openToPublic	yes ⓘ
operatedBy	Botanical Survey of India ⓘ
purpose	cultivation and study of plants ⓘ introduction of economically important plants to India ⓘ
region	eastern India ⓘ
usedFor	botanical research ⓘ conservation of plant diversity ⓘ environmental education ⓘ recreation ⓘ

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