Kolkata Municipal Corporation
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Kolkata Municipal Corporation is the principal civic body responsible for municipal governance and public services in the city of Kolkata, India.
All labels observed (8)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7119964 — 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: Kolkata Municipal Corporation Context triple: [Maidan area of Kolkata, governingBody, Kolkata Municipal Corporation]
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A.
Kanpur Municipal Corporation
Kanpur Municipal Corporation is the local civic body responsible for municipal governance, infrastructure, and public services in the city of Kanpur, India.
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B.
New Delhi Municipal Council
The New Delhi Municipal Council is the local civic body responsible for municipal governance, infrastructure, and public services in the central administrative areas of India’s capital.
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C.
Howrah Municipal Corporation
Howrah Municipal Corporation is the civic administrative body responsible for managing municipal services and urban governance in the city of Howrah, West Bengal, India.
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D.
Patna Municipal Corporation
Patna Municipal Corporation is the civic body responsible for municipal governance, infrastructure, and public services in the city of Patna, India.
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E.
Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation
Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation is the urban local governing body responsible for administering the planned township of Bidhannagar (Salt Lake) and its surrounding areas in Kolkata, West Bengal, 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: Kolkata Municipal Corporation Target entity description: Kolkata Municipal Corporation is the principal civic body responsible for municipal governance and public services in the city of Kolkata, India.
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A.
Kanpur Municipal Corporation
Kanpur Municipal Corporation is the local civic body responsible for municipal governance, infrastructure, and public services in the city of Kanpur, India.
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B.
New Delhi Municipal Council
The New Delhi Municipal Council is the local civic body responsible for municipal governance, infrastructure, and public services in the central administrative areas of India’s capital.
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C.
Howrah Municipal Corporation
Howrah Municipal Corporation is the civic administrative body responsible for managing municipal services and urban governance in the city of Howrah, West Bengal, India.
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D.
Patna Municipal Corporation
Patna Municipal Corporation is the civic body responsible for municipal governance, infrastructure, and public services in the city of Patna, India.
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E.
Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation
Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation is the urban local governing body responsible for administering the planned township of Bidhannagar (Salt Lake) and its surrounding areas in Kolkata, West Bengal, India.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (53)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | Municipal corporation ⓘ |
| appliesLaw |
Kolkata Municipal Corporation Act, 1980
ⓘ
linked to:
Calcutta Municipal Act
|
| country | India ⓘ |
| electionCycle | Every 5 years ⓘ |
| emblem | Seal of Kolkata Municipal Corporation ⓘ |
| executiveBody |
Kolkata Municipal Corporation Executive
ⓘ
linked to:
Kolkata Municipal Corporation
|
| founded | 1876 ⓘ |
| foundedAs | Kolkata Municipal Corporation ⓘ |
| governs |
Kolkata
ⓘ
linked to:
Calcutta
Municipal wards of Kolkata ⓘ |
| hasNumberOfBoroughs | 16 ⓘ |
| hasNumberOfWards | 144 ⓘ |
| hasSubdivision |
Boroughs of Kolkata
ⓘ
linked to:
Kolkata Municipal Corporation Borough X
|
| hasWebsite | https://www.kmcgov.in ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
Kolkata
ⓘ
linked to:
Calcutta
|
| jurisdiction |
Kolkata
ⓘ
linked to:
Calcutta
Kolkata Metropolitan Area (partly) ⓘ
linked to:
Kolkata Metropolitan Area
|
| leaderName |
Atin Ghosh
ⓘ
Firhad Hakim ⓘ Khalil Ahmed ⓘ |
| leaderTitle |
Chairman of Kolkata Municipal Corporation
ⓘ
Deputy Mayor of Kolkata ⓘ Mayor of Kolkata ⓘ
linked to:
Mayor of Calcutta
Municipal Commissioner of Kolkata ⓘ |
| legislativeBody |
Kolkata Municipal Corporation Council
ⓘ
linked to:
Kolkata Municipal Corporation
|
| locatedInTimeZone | Indian Standard Time ⓘ |
| nativeName |
কলকাতা পুরসভা
ⓘ
linked to:
Kolkata Municipal Corporation
|
| nativeNameLanguage | bn ⓘ |
| officialLanguage |
Bengali
ⓘ
English ⓘ |
| politicalPartyInPower |
All India Trinamool Congress
ⓘ
linked to:
Trinamool Congress
|
| precededBy |
Kolkata Municipal Board
ⓘ
linked to:
Kolkata Municipal Corporation
|
| responsibleFor |
Civic administration in Kolkata
ⓘ
Municipal governance in Kolkata ⓘ Urban infrastructure in Kolkata ⓘ |
| restructured | 1923 ⓘ |
| seat |
Kolkata
ⓘ
linked to:
Calcutta
|
| serviceProvided |
Birth and death registration
ⓘ
Building plan approval ⓘ Maintenance of city roads ⓘ Parks and playground maintenance ⓘ Primary education ⓘ Property tax administration ⓘ Public health services ⓘ Sewerage and drainage ⓘ Solid waste management ⓘ Street lighting ⓘ Urban planning ⓘ Water supply ⓘ |
| shortName | KMC ⓘ |
| state | West Bengal ⓘ |
| timeZoneOffset | +05:30 ⓘ |
| typeOfGovernment | Mayor–Council ⓘ |
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: Kolkata Municipal Corporation Description of subject: Kolkata Municipal Corporation is the principal civic body responsible for municipal governance and public services in the city of Kolkata, India.
Referenced by (35)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
B.B.D. Bagh area of Kolkata
linked to: Kolkata Municipal Corporation
linked to: Kolkata Municipal Corporation
linked to: Kolkata Municipal Corporation
subject linked to:
Chittaranjan Avenue in Kolkata
subject linked to:
TMC
subject linked to:
Kolkata, West Bengal, India
subject linked to:
Kolkata, West Bengal, India
linked to: Kolkata Municipal Corporation
linked to: Kolkata Municipal Corporation
linked to: Kolkata Municipal Corporation
linked to: Kolkata Municipal Corporation
linked to: Kolkata Municipal Corporation
subject linked to:
Tollygunge, Calcutta
subject linked to:
Metiabruz area