Pataliputra
E149076
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.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Pataliputra canonical | 70 |
| Pataliputra (modern Patna) | 1 |
| ancient city of Pataliputra | 1 |
| capital city Pataliputra | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1223228 — 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: Pataliputra Context triple: [Maurya Empire, capital, Pataliputra]
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A.
Hastinapura
Hastinapura is the ancient royal capital of the Kuru kingdom in Indian epic tradition, serving as the primary political and familial setting of the Mahabharata.
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B.
Sarnath
Sarnath is an important Buddhist pilgrimage site near Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh, India, where Gautama Buddha is believed to have delivered his first sermon after attaining enlightenment.
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C.
Ayodhya
Ayodhya is an ancient city in India revered in Hinduism as the birthplace of Lord Rama and a major pilgrimage site.
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D.
Dharmakshetra
Dharmakshetra is the sacred battlefield of Kurukshetra in the Indian epic Mahabharata, revered as a holy site where the Bhagavad Gita was spoken.
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E.
Indraprastha
Indraprastha is the legendary capital city of the Pandavas in the Indian epic Mahabharata, often identified with the region of present-day Delhi.
- 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: Pataliputra Target entity description: 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.
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A.
Hastinapura
Hastinapura is the ancient royal capital of the Kuru kingdom in Indian epic tradition, serving as the primary political and familial setting of the Mahabharata.
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B.
Sarnath
Sarnath is an important Buddhist pilgrimage site near Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh, India, where Gautama Buddha is believed to have delivered his first sermon after attaining enlightenment.
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C.
Ayodhya
Ayodhya is an ancient city in India revered in Hinduism as the birthplace of Lord Rama and a major pilgrimage site.
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D.
Dharmakshetra
Dharmakshetra is the sacred battlefield of Kurukshetra in the Indian epic Mahabharata, revered as a holy site where the Bhagavad Gita was spoken.
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E.
Indraprastha
Indraprastha is the legendary capital city of the Pandavas in the Indian epic Mahabharata, often identified with the region of present-day Delhi.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
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: Pataliputra Description of subject: 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.
Referenced by (73)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Pataliputra
subject linked to:
ancient India
subject linked to:
Amitrochates
subject linked to:
Subhadrangi (traditional identification as Ashoka’s mother)