Nalanda district
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Nalanda district is an administrative region in the Indian state of Bihar, renowned for encompassing the ancient Buddhist learning center of Nalanda University.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Nalanda district canonical | 15 |
| Nalanda region | 2 |
| Nālandā region | 2 |
| Nalanda district administration | 1 |
| Nalanda district collectorate | 1 |
| Nalanda district police headquarters | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7306732 — 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: Nalanda district Context triple: [Nalanda, locatedIn, Nalanda district]
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A.
Patna district
Patna district is an administrative district in the state of Bihar, India, encompassing the state capital city of Patna and its surrounding areas.
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B.
Vaishali district
Vaishali district is an administrative district in the Indian state of Bihar, historically significant as part of the ancient republic of Vaishali and known for its cultural and archaeological heritage.
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C.
Hardoi district
Hardoi district is an administrative district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, known for its predominantly agricultural landscape and location in the central part of the state.
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D.
Paschim Bardhaman district
Paschim Bardhaman district is an administrative district in the Indian state of West Bengal, known for its industrial towns and coal-mining regions.
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E.
Ballia district
Ballia district is an administrative region in the eastern part of Uttar Pradesh, India, historically notable as the birthplace of Indian independence revolutionary Mangal Pandey.
- 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: Nalanda district Target entity description: Nalanda district is an administrative region in the Indian state of Bihar, renowned for encompassing the ancient Buddhist learning center of Nalanda University.
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A.
Patna district
Patna district is an administrative district in the state of Bihar, India, encompassing the state capital city of Patna and its surrounding areas.
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B.
Vaishali district
Vaishali district is an administrative district in the Indian state of Bihar, historically significant as part of the ancient republic of Vaishali and known for its cultural and archaeological heritage.
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C.
Hardoi district
Hardoi district is an administrative district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, known for its predominantly agricultural landscape and location in the central part of the state.
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D.
Paschim Bardhaman district
Paschim Bardhaman district is an administrative district in the Indian state of West Bengal, known for its industrial towns and coal-mining regions.
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E.
Ballia district
Ballia district is an administrative region in the eastern part of Uttar Pradesh, India, historically notable as the birthplace of Indian independence revolutionary Mangal Pandey.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (70)
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: Nalanda district Description of subject: Nalanda district is an administrative region in the Indian state of Bihar, renowned for encompassing the ancient Buddhist learning center of Nalanda University.
Referenced by (22)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Nalanda district
linked to: Nalanda district
subject linked to:
Nalanda district headquarters Bihar Sharif
subject linked to:
Nalanda district headquarters Bihar Sharif
linked to: Nalanda district
subject linked to:
Nalanda district headquarters Bihar Sharif
linked to: Nalanda district
linked to: Nalanda district
linked to: Nalanda district
linked to: Nalanda district