Raxaul
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Raxaul is a border town in Bihar, India, known as a major transit and trade gateway between India and Nepal.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Raxaul canonical | 16 |
| Raxaul immigration office | 1 |
| Raxaul town | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10786559 — 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: Raxaul Context triple: [East Champaran district, containsTown, Raxaul]
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A.
Yasodharapura
Yasodharapura was the principal royal city of the Khmer Empire, centered around Angkor and serving as a major political and religious hub in medieval Southeast Asia.
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B.
Gelephu
Gelephu is a prominent border town in southern Bhutan known for its trade, transport links, and gateway role between Bhutan and India.
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C.
Kaundinya
Kaundinya was one of the Buddha’s first disciples and is traditionally regarded as the first person to attain enlightenment after hearing the Buddha’s initial sermon.
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D.
Pushkalavati
Pushkalavati is an ancient city of the Gandhara region, located at the site of modern Charsadda in present-day Pakistan, known for its archaeological and historical significance in early Buddhist and Indo-Greek history.
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E.
Pataliputra
Pataliputra was an ancient Indian city on the Ganges that served as a major political and cultural center, especially under powerful dynasties like the Maurya and Gupta empires.
- 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: Raxaul Target entity description: Raxaul is a border town in Bihar, India, known as a major transit and trade gateway between India and Nepal.
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A.
Yasodharapura
Yasodharapura was the principal royal city of the Khmer Empire, centered around Angkor and serving as a major political and religious hub in medieval Southeast Asia.
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B.
Gelephu
Gelephu is a prominent border town in southern Bhutan known for its trade, transport links, and gateway role between Bhutan and India.
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C.
Kaundinya
Kaundinya was one of the Buddha’s first disciples and is traditionally regarded as the first person to attain enlightenment after hearing the Buddha’s initial sermon.
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D.
Pushkalavati
Pushkalavati is an ancient city of the Gandhara region, located at the site of modern Charsadda in present-day Pakistan, known for its archaeological and historical significance in early Buddhist and Indo-Greek history.
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E.
Pataliputra
Pataliputra was an ancient Indian city on the Ganges that served as a major political and cultural center, especially under powerful dynasties like the Maurya and Gupta empires.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Raxaul Description of subject: Raxaul is a border town in Bihar, India, known as a major transit and trade gateway between India and Nepal.
Referenced by (18)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Raxaul
linked to: Raxaul