Shillong
E45294
Shillong is the capital city of the northeastern Indian state of Meghalaya, known for its scenic hills, colonial-era architecture, and vibrant cultural life.
All labels observed (9)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Shillong canonical | 144 |
| Shillong, Meghalaya, India | 4 |
| Shillong city | 3 |
| Shillong city centre | 3 |
| Shillong metropolitan area | 3 |
| Shillong urban area | 2 |
| Shillong (state capital of Meghalaya) | 1 |
| Shillong centre | 1 |
| city of Shillong | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T357650 — 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: Shillong Context triple: [Arundhati Roy, placeOfBirth, Shillong]
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A.
Guwahati
Guwahati is a major city in northeastern India, serving as a key cultural, economic, and transportation hub for the region.
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B.
Dibrugarh
Dibrugarh is a prominent city in northeastern India known as a major commercial and industrial hub of Assam, especially for its tea industry and oil and natural gas sectors.
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C.
Jorhat
Jorhat is a prominent city in northeastern India known as a cultural and educational hub and a key center of the tea industry in Assam.
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D.
Tezpur
Tezpur is a historic city in northeastern India known for its cultural heritage, archaeological sites, and scenic location on the banks of the Brahmaputra River.
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E.
Silchar
Silchar is a prominent city in the Barak Valley region of northeastern India, known as a commercial, educational, and transportation hub of southern Assam.
- 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: Shillong Target entity description: Shillong is the capital city of the northeastern Indian state of Meghalaya, known for its scenic hills, colonial-era architecture, and vibrant cultural life.
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A.
Guwahati
Guwahati is a major city in northeastern India, serving as a key cultural, economic, and transportation hub for the region.
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B.
Dibrugarh
Dibrugarh is a prominent city in northeastern India known as a major commercial and industrial hub of Assam, especially for its tea industry and oil and natural gas sectors.
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C.
Jorhat
Jorhat is a prominent city in northeastern India known as a cultural and educational hub and a key center of the tea industry in Assam.
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D.
Tezpur
Tezpur is a historic city in northeastern India known for its cultural heritage, archaeological sites, and scenic location on the banks of the Brahmaputra River.
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E.
Silchar
Silchar is a prominent city in the Barak Valley region of northeastern India, known as a commercial, educational, and transportation hub of southern Assam.
- 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: Shillong Description of subject: Shillong is the capital city of the northeastern Indian state of Meghalaya, known for its scenic hills, colonial-era architecture, and vibrant cultural life.
Referenced by (162)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.