Maharashtra
E19223
Maharashtra is a large and economically significant state in western India, known for its capital Mumbai, the country’s financial hub, and its rich cultural and historical heritage.
All labels observed (12)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Maharashtra canonical | 2,364 |
| State of Maharashtra | 11 |
| state of Maharashtra | 10 |
| Maharashtra state | 9 |
| Maharashtra, India | 4 |
| महाराष्ट्र | 3 |
| Indian state of Maharashtra | 2 |
| India Maharashtra | 1 |
| MH (Maharashtra) | 1 |
| MH denotes the state of Maharashtra | 1 |
| Maharashtra region | 1 |
| present-day Maharashtra | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T115340 — 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: Maharashtra Context triple: [Central Provinces, postIndependenceSuccessor, Maharashtra]
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A.
Gujarat
Gujarat is a western coastal state of India known for its significant role in trade and industry, rich cultural heritage, and historic cities such as Ahmedabad.
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B.
Uttar Pradesh
Uttar Pradesh is a populous northern Indian state known for its political influence, rich cultural and religious heritage, and historic cities such as Varanasi and Agra.
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C.
Madhya Pradesh
Madhya Pradesh is a large central Indian state known for its historical cities, diverse tribal cultures, and significant forested and wildlife areas including several major national parks.
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D.
Rajasthan
Rajasthan is a northwestern Indian state known for its vast Thar Desert, historic Rajput forts and palaces, and rich cultural heritage.
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E.
Haryana
Haryana is a northern Indian state known for its significant agricultural output, rapid industrial growth, and proximity to the national capital, New 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: Maharashtra Target entity description: Maharashtra is a large and economically significant state in western India, known for its capital Mumbai, the country’s financial hub, and its rich cultural and historical heritage.
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A.
Gujarat
Gujarat is a western coastal state of India known for its significant role in trade and industry, rich cultural heritage, and historic cities such as Ahmedabad.
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B.
Uttar Pradesh
Uttar Pradesh is a populous northern Indian state known for its political influence, rich cultural and religious heritage, and historic cities such as Varanasi and Agra.
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C.
Madhya Pradesh
Madhya Pradesh is a large central Indian state known for its historical cities, diverse tribal cultures, and significant forested and wildlife areas including several major national parks.
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D.
Rajasthan
Rajasthan is a northwestern Indian state known for its vast Thar Desert, historic Rajput forts and palaces, and rich cultural heritage.
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E.
Haryana
Haryana is a northern Indian state known for its significant agricultural output, rapid industrial growth, and proximity to the national capital, New Delhi.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (85)
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: Maharashtra Description of subject: Maharashtra is a large and economically significant state in western India, known for its capital Mumbai, the country’s financial hub, and its rich cultural and historical heritage.
Referenced by (2,408)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Vishnu Vaman Shirwadkar
this entity surface form:
महाराष्ट्र
subject surface form:
Center for Rural Reconstruction Experiments at Sevagram Ashram
this entity surface form:
Indian state of Maharashtra