Sohi
E682446
Sohi is a Punjabi-origin surname commonly found among people from the Indian subcontinent and their diaspora.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7708358 — 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: Sohi Context triple: [Amarjeet Sohi, familyName, Sohi]
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A.
Sohain
Sohain is a regional dialect of the Potohari language spoken in parts of the Potohar Plateau in Pakistan.
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B.
Salbai
Salbai is a historical location in India known primarily as the site where the 1782 Treaty of Salbai was concluded between the British East India Company and the Maratha Empire.
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C.
Chawla
Chawla is an Indian surname commonly associated with people of Punjabi origin, notably including the astronaut Kalpana Chawla.
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D.
Shadharwan
Shadharwan is the sloped stone base or foundation that runs along the lower exterior walls of the Kaaba in Mecca.
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E.
Sureth
Sureth is a modern Eastern Aramaic language spoken primarily by Assyrian communities in parts of Iraq, Syria, Iran, and the diaspora.
- 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: Sohi Target entity description: Sohi is a Punjabi-origin surname commonly found among people from the Indian subcontinent and their diaspora.
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A.
Sohain
Sohain is a regional dialect of the Potohari language spoken in parts of the Potohar Plateau in Pakistan.
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B.
Salbai
Salbai is a historical location in India known primarily as the site where the 1782 Treaty of Salbai was concluded between the British East India Company and the Maratha Empire.
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C.
Chawla
Chawla is an Indian surname commonly associated with people of Punjabi origin, notably including the astronaut Kalpana Chawla.
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D.
Shadharwan
Shadharwan is the sloped stone base or foundation that runs along the lower exterior walls of the Kaaba in Mecca.
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E.
Sureth
Sureth is a modern Eastern Aramaic language spoken primarily by Assyrian communities in parts of Iraq, Syria, Iran, and the diaspora.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | surname ⓘ |
| hasCulturalOrigin | Punjabi people ⓘ |
| hasEthnolinguisticAssociation | Punjabi ⓘ |
| hasLanguageOfOrigin |
Punjabi
ⓘ
linked to:
Punjabi language
|
| hasNotableBearer |
Harinder S. Sohi
ⓘ
Manjit Sohi ⓘ Ranjit Sohi ⓘ
linked to:
Manjit Sohi
Sarabjit Sohi ⓘ Sukhwinder Sohi ⓘ |
| hasRegionOfOrigin | Punjab ⓘ |
| hasScript |
Gurmukhi
ⓘ
Latin alphabet ⓘ Shahmukhi ⓘ
linked to:
Shahmukhi script
|
| isCategorizedAs |
Punjabi-language surname
ⓘ
surname of Indian origin ⓘ surname of South Asian origin ⓘ |
| isUsedBy |
Indian diaspora
ⓘ
Pakistani diaspora ⓘ people from the Indian subcontinent ⓘ |
| usedByDiasporaFrom |
Indian subcontinent
ⓘ
linked to:
South Asia
|
| usedInCountry |
Australia
ⓘ
Canada ⓘ India ⓘ New Zealand ⓘ Pakistan ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
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: Sohi Description of subject: Sohi is a Punjabi-origin surname commonly found among people from the Indian subcontinent and their diaspora.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Sohi