Aligarh
E93124
Aligarh is a prominent city in northern India known for its lock industry and as the home of Aligarh Muslim University.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Aligarh canonical | 72 |
| Aligarh city | 5 |
| Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, India | 4 |
| Aligarh city centre | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T516606 — 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: Aligarh Context triple: [Uttar Pradesh, hasMajorCity, Aligarh]
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A.
Bareilly
Bareilly is a historic city in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, known as a major center of the 1857 uprising against British colonial rule and now an important commercial and cultural hub.
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B.
Meerut
Meerut is a historic city in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, known as the place where the Indian Rebellion of 1857 first erupted against British colonial rule.
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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.
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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E.
Ghaziabad
Ghaziabad is a major industrial and residential city in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, forming part of the National Capital Region near Delhi.
- 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: Aligarh Target entity description: Aligarh is a prominent city in northern India known for its lock industry and as the home of Aligarh Muslim University.
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A.
Bareilly
Bareilly is a historic city in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, known as a major center of the 1857 uprising against British colonial rule and now an important commercial and cultural hub.
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B.
Meerut
Meerut is a historic city in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, known as the place where the Indian Rebellion of 1857 first erupted against British colonial rule.
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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.
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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E.
Ghaziabad
Ghaziabad is a major industrial and residential city in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, forming part of the National Capital Region near Delhi.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Aligarh Description of subject: Aligarh is a prominent city in northern India known for its lock industry and as the home of Aligarh Muslim University.
Referenced by (82)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
reconstruction of religious thought in Islam
subject linked to:
GT Road
linked to: Aligarh
linked to: Aligarh
linked to: Aligarh
linked to: Aligarh
subject linked to:
Aligarh Airport (non-operational/limited use)
linked to: Aligarh
linked to: Aligarh
subject linked to:
Sir Syed Ahmad Khan (through AMU)
subject linked to:
Sir Syed Ahmad Khan (through AMU)
linked to: Aligarh
subject linked to:
Sir Syed Ahmad Khan (through AMU)
linked to: Aligarh