Sarnath
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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.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Sarnath canonical | 41 |
| Bodh Gaya | 1 |
| Sarnath archaeological site | 1 |
| Sarnath, India | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T198171 — 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: Sarnath Context triple: [State Emblem of India, originalSculptureLocation, Sarnath]
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Mathura
Mathura is an ancient city in northern India revered in Hinduism as the birthplace of Lord Krishna and a major pilgrimage center.
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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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Varanasi
Varanasi is an ancient city on the banks of the Ganges in northern India, revered as one of Hinduism’s holiest pilgrimage sites and a major center of religious, cultural, and spiritual life.
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D.
Allahabad
Allahabad, officially known as Prayagraj, is a major city in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, historically significant as a political and cultural center and as a prominent site of the Kumbh Mela at the confluence of the Ganges, Yamuna, and mythical Saraswati rivers.
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E.
Agra
Agra is a historic city in northern India renowned for its Mughal-era architecture, most notably the Taj Mahal and Agra Fort.
- 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: Sarnath Target entity description: 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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A.
Mathura
Mathura is an ancient city in northern India revered in Hinduism as the birthplace of Lord Krishna and a major pilgrimage center.
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B.
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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C.
Varanasi
Varanasi is an ancient city on the banks of the Ganges in northern India, revered as one of Hinduism’s holiest pilgrimage sites and a major center of religious, cultural, and spiritual life.
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D.
Allahabad
Allahabad, officially known as Prayagraj, is a major city in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, historically significant as a political and cultural center and as a prominent site of the Kumbh Mela at the confluence of the Ganges, Yamuna, and mythical Saraswati rivers.
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E.
Agra
Agra is a historic city in northern India renowned for its Mughal-era architecture, most notably the Taj Mahal and Agra Fort.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Sarnath Description of subject: 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.
Referenced by (44)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Sarnath
linked to: Sarnath