Dhaka
E26021
Dhaka is the capital and largest city of Bangladesh, serving as the country’s political, economic, and cultural center.
All labels observed (16)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dhaka canonical | 477 |
| Dhaka, Bangladesh | 14 |
| ঢাকা | 7 |
| Dacca | 6 |
| Dhaka city | 5 |
| Dhaka metropolitan area | 2 |
| central Dhaka | 2 |
| DC Dhaka | 1 |
| Dacca, East Pakistan | 1 |
| Dhaka (northern part) | 1 |
| Dhaka (then in East Bengal) | 1 |
| Dhaka City | 1 |
| Dhaka city center | 1 |
| Dhaka, capital of Bangladesh | 1 |
| Dhakaiya | 1 |
| city of Dhaka | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T203951 — 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: Dhaka Context triple: [Partha Dasgupta, placeOfBirth, Dhaka]
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A.
Calcutta
Calcutta, now known as Kolkata, is a major cultural and commercial metropolis in eastern India that served as the capital of British India until the early 20th century.
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B.
Karachi
Karachi is Pakistan’s sprawling economic hub and major port city on the Arabian Sea, known for its diverse population and central role in the country’s finance, industry, and culture.
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C.
Islamabad
Islamabad is Pakistan’s planned, modern capital city known for its high standard of living, greenery, and role as the country’s political and administrative center.
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D.
Mumbai
Mumbai is a densely populated coastal metropolis in western India that serves as the country’s financial hub and the center of its film industry, Bollywood.
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E.
Kanpur
Kanpur is a major industrial city in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, historically significant as a key site of conflict during the Indian Rebellion of 1857.
- 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: Dhaka Target entity description: Dhaka is the capital and largest city of Bangladesh, serving as the country’s political, economic, and cultural center.
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A.
Calcutta
Calcutta, now known as Kolkata, is a major cultural and commercial metropolis in eastern India that served as the capital of British India until the early 20th century.
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B.
Karachi
Karachi is Pakistan’s sprawling economic hub and major port city on the Arabian Sea, known for its diverse population and central role in the country’s finance, industry, and culture.
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C.
Islamabad
Islamabad is Pakistan’s planned, modern capital city known for its high standard of living, greenery, and role as the country’s political and administrative center.
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D.
Mumbai
Mumbai is a densely populated coastal metropolis in western India that serves as the country’s financial hub and the center of its film industry, Bollywood.
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E.
Kanpur
Kanpur is a major industrial city in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, historically significant as a key site of conflict during the Indian Rebellion of 1857.
- 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: Dhaka Description of subject: Dhaka is the capital and largest city of Bangladesh, serving as the country’s political, economic, and cultural center.
Referenced by (522)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
People's Republic of Bangladesh (from East Pakistan)
subject linked to:
People's Republic of Bangladesh (from East Pakistan)
linked to: Dhaka
linked to: Dhaka
linked to: Dhaka
linked to: Dhaka
subject linked to:
Victory Day
linked to: Dhaka
linked to: Dhaka