Harike
E100572
Harike is a town in Punjab, India, best known for the Harike Barrage and the adjoining Harike Wetland, one of northern India’s largest and most important bird sanctuaries.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Harike Wetland | 3 |
| Harike canonical | 2 |
| Harike Lake | 1 |
| Harike, Punjab | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T839143 — 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: Harike Context triple: [Beas River, confluenceLocation, Harike]
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A.
Sikar
Sikar is a prominent city in northern India known for its historic havelis, educational institutions, and role as a commercial hub in the Shekhawati region.
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B.
Rann of Kutch
The Rann of Kutch is a vast seasonal salt marsh in the Kutch district of Gujarat, India, renowned for its white salt desert landscape and unique wildlife.
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C.
Kotri Barrage
Kotri Barrage is a major irrigation and flood-control structure on the Indus River in Pakistan, crucial for regulating water distribution to the lower Indus basin.
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D.
Chenab River
The Chenab River is a major river of the Indian subcontinent that flows through the Jammu region and into Pakistan, playing a key role in the Indus River system and regional agriculture.
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E.
Ranjit Sagar Dam
Ranjit Sagar Dam is a major multipurpose hydroelectric and irrigation dam located on the Ravi River in northern 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: Harike Target entity description: Harike is a town in Punjab, India, best known for the Harike Barrage and the adjoining Harike Wetland, one of northern India’s largest and most important bird sanctuaries.
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A.
Sikar
Sikar is a prominent city in northern India known for its historic havelis, educational institutions, and role as a commercial hub in the Shekhawati region.
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B.
Rann of Kutch
The Rann of Kutch is a vast seasonal salt marsh in the Kutch district of Gujarat, India, renowned for its white salt desert landscape and unique wildlife.
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C.
Kotri Barrage
Kotri Barrage is a major irrigation and flood-control structure on the Indus River in Pakistan, crucial for regulating water distribution to the lower Indus basin.
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D.
Chenab River
The Chenab River is a major river of the Indian subcontinent that flows through the Jammu region and into Pakistan, playing a key role in the Indus River system and regional agriculture.
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E.
Ranjit Sagar Dam
Ranjit Sagar Dam is a major multipurpose hydroelectric and irrigation dam located on the Ravi River in northern India.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human settlement
ⓘ
town ⓘ |
| administrativeDivision | Tarn Taran district ⓘ |
| country | India ⓘ |
| economicActivity |
agriculture
ⓘ
fishing ⓘ tourism ⓘ |
| environmentalImportance |
major wintering ground for migratory waterfowl
ⓘ
one of northern India’s largest wetlands ⓘ |
| hasDesignation | important bird area ⓘ |
| hasEcologicalFeature |
migratory bird habitat
ⓘ
wetland ecosystem ⓘ |
| hasInfrastructure | barrage ⓘ |
| hasNearbyProtectedArea |
Harike Bird Sanctuary
ⓘ
surface form:
Harike Wildlife Sanctuary
|
| hasNearbyWaterBody |
Beas River
ⓘ
Sutlej River ⓘ |
| hasProtectedArea |
Harike Bird Sanctuary
ⓘ
Harike self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Harike Wetland
|
| hasStructure | Harike Barrage ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Harike Barrage
ⓘ
Harike self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Harike Wetland
bird sanctuary ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
Hindi
ⓘ
Punjabi language ⓘ
surface form:
Punjabi
|
| locatedIn |
Punjab
ⓘ
Tarn Taran district ⓘ northern India ⓘ northwestern India ⓘ |
| locatedNear | confluence of the Beas and Sutlej rivers ⓘ |
| nearbyCity |
Amritsar
ⓘ
Ferozepur ⓘ Tarn Taran Sahib ⓘ |
| partOf |
Indo-Gangetic Plain
ⓘ
surface form:
Indo-Gangetic plains region
|
| region |
Majha (Punjab)
ⓘ
surface form:
Majha region of Punjab
|
| religionMajority | Sikhism ⓘ |
| religionPracticed | Hinduism ⓘ |
| state | Punjab ⓘ |
| timezone | Indian Standard Time ⓘ |
| tourismAttraction |
Harike Barrage
ⓘ
surface form:
Harike Barrage view point
Harike Wetland bird watching ⓘ |
| transportRole | road bridge over Sutlej-Beas confluence via Harike Barrage ⓘ |
| UTCOffset | +05:30 ⓘ |
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: Harike Description of subject: Harike is a town in Punjab, India, best known for the Harike Barrage and the adjoining Harike Wetland, one of northern India’s largest and most important bird sanctuaries.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Harike Wetland
this entity surface form:
Harike, Punjab
this entity surface form:
Harike Wetland
this entity surface form:
Harike Lake