Patna
E78060
Patna is the capital city of the Indian state of Bihar, situated along the Ganges River and known as one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world.
All labels observed (12)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Patna canonical | 237 |
| Patna metropolitan region | 7 |
| Patna, Bihar, India | 7 |
| Patna city | 2 |
| Patna metropolitan area | 2 |
| City of Patna | 1 |
| Patna (India) | 1 |
| Patna Metropolitan Region | 1 |
| Patna city centre | 1 |
| Patna urban agglomeration | 1 |
| Patna urban area | 1 |
| Patna, Bihar | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T502384 — 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: Patna Context triple: [Northern India, containsCity, Patna]
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A.
Kanpur
Kanpur is a major industrial city in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, historically significant as a key site of conflict during the Indian Rebellion of 1857.
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B.
Lucknow
Lucknow is the capital city of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, renowned for its rich cultural heritage, refined Urdu literature, Awadhi cuisine, and elegant Mughal and colonial-era architecture.
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C.
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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D.
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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E.
Jabalpur
Jabalpur is a major city in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, known for its industrial base, educational institutions, and nearby marble rock formations along the Narmada River.
- 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: Patna Target entity description: Patna is the capital city of the Indian state of Bihar, situated along the Ganges River and known as one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world.
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A.
Kanpur
Kanpur is a major industrial city in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, historically significant as a key site of conflict during the Indian Rebellion of 1857.
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B.
Lucknow
Lucknow is the capital city of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, renowned for its rich cultural heritage, refined Urdu literature, Awadhi cuisine, and elegant Mughal and colonial-era architecture.
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C.
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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D.
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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E.
Jabalpur
Jabalpur is a major city in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, known for its industrial base, educational institutions, and nearby marble rock formations along the Narmada River.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (61)
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: Patna Description of subject: Patna is the capital city of the Indian state of Bihar, situated along the Ganges River and known as one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world.
Referenced by (262)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
northern India
subject linked to:
eastern India
linked to: Patna
linked to: Patna
linked to: Patna
subject linked to:
north Bihar
linked to: Patna
linked to: Patna