Fort William, Kolkata
E30566
Fort William, Kolkata is a historic 18th-century fort on the eastern bank of the Hooghly River that now serves as the headquarters of the Eastern Command of the Indian Army.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Fort William, Calcutta | 7 |
| Fort William, Kolkata canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T236688 — 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: Fort William, Kolkata Context triple: [Calcutta, hasLandmark, Fort William, Kolkata]
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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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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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Port Blair
Port Blair is a coastal city in the Bay of Bengal known as the main gateway and administrative hub of India’s Andaman and Nicobar Islands, with a history tied to colonial-era penal settlements.
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Santiniketan
Santiniketan is a renowned cultural and educational town in West Bengal, India, best known as the home of Visva-Bharati University founded by Rabindranath Tagore.
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E.
Bombay Castle
Bombay Castle is a historic fortified complex in Mumbai that served as the core stronghold and early seat of British colonial administration in western India.
- 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: Fort William, Kolkata Target entity description: Fort William, Kolkata is a historic 18th-century fort on the eastern bank of the Hooghly River that now serves as the headquarters of the Eastern Command of the Indian Army.
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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.
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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C.
Port Blair
Port Blair is a coastal city in the Bay of Bengal known as the main gateway and administrative hub of India’s Andaman and Nicobar Islands, with a history tied to colonial-era penal settlements.
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D.
Santiniketan
Santiniketan is a renowned cultural and educational town in West Bengal, India, best known as the home of Visva-Bharati University founded by Rabindranath Tagore.
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E.
Bombay Castle
Bombay Castle is a historic fortified complex in Mumbai that served as the core stronghold and early seat of British colonial administration in western India.
- 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: Fort William, Kolkata Description of subject: Fort William, Kolkata is a historic 18th-century fort on the eastern bank of the Hooghly River that now serves as the headquarters of the Eastern Command of the Indian Army.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Supreme Court of Judicature at Fort William (historically)
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