Bank of Bengal
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Bank of Bengal was one of the three original presidency banks in British India and a key precursor to modern Indian commercial banking.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Bank of Bengal canonical | 4 |
| Bank of Bombay | 2 |
| Bank of Madras | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6969978 — 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: Bank of Bengal Context triple: [Imperial Bank of India, predecessor, Bank of Bengal]
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Imperial Bank of India
Imperial Bank of India was a major colonial-era commercial bank that served as the largest and most influential banking institution in British India before being nationalized and transformed into the State Bank of India.
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B.
Bangladesh Bank
Bangladesh Bank is the central bank of Bangladesh, responsible for formulating monetary policy, regulating the banking sector, and managing the country’s currency and foreign exchange reserves.
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C.
National Bank of Australasia
The National Bank of Australasia was a major Australian banking institution that operated from the 19th century until its merger into what is now National Australia Bank.
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D.
Punjab National Bank
Punjab National Bank is one of India’s oldest and largest public sector banks, known for its extensive nationwide branch network and significant role in the country’s banking and financial services sector.
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E.
Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce
Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce is one of Canada’s largest chartered banks, offering a wide range of financial services to personal, business, and institutional clients domestically and internationally.
- 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: Bank of Bengal Target entity description: Bank of Bengal was one of the three original presidency banks in British India and a key precursor to modern Indian commercial banking.
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A.
Imperial Bank of India
Imperial Bank of India was a major colonial-era commercial bank that served as the largest and most influential banking institution in British India before being nationalized and transformed into the State Bank of India.
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B.
Bangladesh Bank
Bangladesh Bank is the central bank of Bangladesh, responsible for formulating monetary policy, regulating the banking sector, and managing the country’s currency and foreign exchange reserves.
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C.
National Bank of Australasia
The National Bank of Australasia was a major Australian banking institution that operated from the 19th century until its merger into what is now National Australia Bank.
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D.
Punjab National Bank
Punjab National Bank is one of India’s oldest and largest public sector banks, known for its extensive nationwide branch network and significant role in the country’s banking and financial services sector.
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E.
Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce
Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce is one of Canada’s largest chartered banks, offering a wide range of financial services to personal, business, and institutional clients domestically and internationally.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
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: Bank of Bengal Description of subject: Bank of Bengal was one of the three original presidency banks in British India and a key precursor to modern Indian commercial banking.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Bank of Bengal
linked to: Bank of Bengal
linked to: Bank of Bengal