Gandamak
E800966
Gandamak is a village in eastern Afghanistan historically significant as the site of key events during the Anglo-Afghan Wars.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Battle of Gandamak | 2 |
| Gandamak canonical | 2 |
| Retreat from Kabul 1842 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9461968 — 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: Gandamak Context triple: [Treaty of Gandamak, signedIn, Gandamak]
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A.
Battle of Kabul 1842
The Battle of Kabul 1842 was a key engagement during the First Anglo-Afghan War in which British forces re-entered and fought to reassert control over Kabul following the disastrous retreat from the city.
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B.
Tora Bora
Tora Bora is a rugged cave-filled mountain complex in eastern Afghanistan that became notorious as a stronghold and last major redoubt of al-Qaeda and Osama bin Laden during the early stages of the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan.
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C.
Battle of Kandahar
The Battle of Kandahar was a decisive engagement in the Second Anglo-Afghan War (1880) in which British and Indian forces defeated Afghan troops, effectively ending major hostilities in the conflict.
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D.
Battle of Maiwand
The Battle of Maiwand was a significant 1880 engagement in the Second Anglo-Afghan War in which Afghan forces inflicted a major defeat on the British, becoming a symbol of Afghan resistance and military valor.
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E.
Battle of Attock
The Battle of Attock was an 1813 conflict in which the Sikh Empire decisively defeated the Durrani Afghans, securing control of the strategic Attock fort on the Indus River.
- 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: Gandamak Target entity description: Gandamak is a village in eastern Afghanistan historically significant as the site of key events during the Anglo-Afghan Wars.
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A.
Battle of Kabul 1842
The Battle of Kabul 1842 was a key engagement during the First Anglo-Afghan War in which British forces re-entered and fought to reassert control over Kabul following the disastrous retreat from the city.
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B.
Tora Bora
Tora Bora is a rugged cave-filled mountain complex in eastern Afghanistan that became notorious as a stronghold and last major redoubt of al-Qaeda and Osama bin Laden during the early stages of the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan.
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C.
Battle of Kandahar
The Battle of Kandahar was a decisive engagement in the Second Anglo-Afghan War (1880) in which British and Indian forces defeated Afghan troops, effectively ending major hostilities in the conflict.
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D.
Battle of Maiwand
The Battle of Maiwand was a significant 1880 engagement in the Second Anglo-Afghan War in which Afghan forces inflicted a major defeat on the British, becoming a symbol of Afghan resistance and military valor.
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E.
Battle of Attock
The Battle of Attock was an 1813 conflict in which the Sikh Empire decisively defeated the Durrani Afghans, securing control of the strategic Attock fort on the Indus River.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
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: Gandamak Description of subject: Gandamak is a village in eastern Afghanistan historically significant as the site of key events during the Anglo-Afghan Wars.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Gandamak
linked to: Gandamak
linked to: Gandamak