Digboi oil field

E173760

oil field petroleum field

Digboi oil field is one of the oldest producing oil fields in the world, located in Assam, India, and historically significant as the site of early oil exploration in Asia.

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All labels observed (2)

Label	Occurrences
Digboi	6
Digboi oil field canonical	2

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1517622 — 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: Digboi oil field
Context triple: [Dibrugarh, hasNearbyOilField, Digboi oil field]

A. Naharkatiya oil field
Naharkatiya oil field is one of the earliest and most significant onshore oil fields in Assam, India, contributing notably to the region’s petroleum industry.
B. Jharia coalfield
Jharia coalfield is one of India’s largest and oldest coal mining regions, renowned for its rich coking coal reserves and long-standing underground coal fires.
C. Raniganj coalfield
Raniganj coalfield is one of India’s oldest and most significant coal mining regions, located primarily in West Bengal and Jharkhand.
D. Bokaro coalfield
Bokaro coalfield is a major coal-producing region in Jharkhand, India, known for its extensive reserves of high-quality coking coal that support the country’s steel and power industries.
E. Belridge Oil Field
Belridge Oil Field is one of California’s largest and most productive oil fields, located in the San Joaquin Valley and known for its extensive heavy oil and enhanced recovery operations.
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: Digboi oil field
Target entity description: Digboi oil field is one of the oldest producing oil fields in the world, located in Assam, India, and historically significant as the site of early oil exploration in Asia.

A. Naharkatiya oil field
Naharkatiya oil field is one of the earliest and most significant onshore oil fields in Assam, India, contributing notably to the region’s petroleum industry.
B. Jharia coalfield
Jharia coalfield is one of India’s largest and oldest coal mining regions, renowned for its rich coking coal reserves and long-standing underground coal fires.
C. Raniganj coalfield
Raniganj coalfield is one of India’s oldest and most significant coal mining regions, located primarily in West Bengal and Jharkhand.
D. Bokaro coalfield
Bokaro coalfield is a major coal-producing region in Jharkhand, India, known for its extensive reserves of high-quality coking coal that support the country’s steel and power industries.
E. Belridge Oil Field
Belridge Oil Field is one of California’s largest and most productive oil fields, located in the San Joaquin Valley and known for its extensive heavy oil and enhanced recovery operations.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (43)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	oil field ⓘ petroleum field ⓘ
associatedIndustry	Assam oil industry ⓘ
associatedWith	development of Indian Oil Corporation ⓘ history of oil exploration in India ⓘ
continent	Asia ⓘ
contributesTo	regional economy of Assam ⓘ
country	India ⓘ
discovered	1889 ⓘ
economicImpact	early center of petroleum industry in India ⓘ
formerOperator	Assam Oil Company ⓘ Burmah Oil Company ⓘ
geologicalBasin	Assam–Arakan basin ⓘ
hasHeritageStatus	industrial heritage site of India ⓘ
hasInfrastructure	oil wells ⓘ pipelines ⓘ storage tanks ⓘ
hasRefinery	Digboi refinery ⓘ
historicalEra	British colonial period ⓘ
knownFor	early oil exploration in Asia ⓘ long history of continuous oil production ⓘ
locatedIn	Assam ⓘ Digboi oil field self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Digboi Northeast India ⓘ Tinsukia district ⓘ
namedAfter	town of Digboi ⓘ
nearbyCity	Dibrugarh ⓘ Tinsukia ⓘ
operator	Oil India Limited ⓘ
ownershipHistory	Assam Oil Company to Burmah Oil Company to Oil India Limited ⓘ
partOf	Indian petroleum sector ⓘ
product	petroleum products via Digboi refinery ⓘ
refineryOperator	Indian Oil Corporation ⓘ
refinerySignificance	one of the oldest operating oil refineries in the world ⓘ
refineryStartOfOperation	1901 ⓘ
resource	crude oil ⓘ natural gas ⓘ
sector	energy industry ⓘ
significance	one of the earliest oil fields in Asia ⓘ one of the oldest continuously producing oil fields in the world ⓘ
startOfCommercialProduction	1901 ⓘ
startOfProduction	1890 ⓘ
technologyIntroducedBy	British engineers ⓘ

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