Birla House, New Delhi
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Birla House in New Delhi is a historic residence-turned-memorial most widely known as the site where Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated in 1948.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Birla House | 3 |
| Birla Bhavan | 2 |
| Birla House, New Delhi canonical | 2 |
| बिरला भवन | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T153009 — 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: Birla House, New Delhi Context triple: [Nathuram Godse, locationOfAssassination, Birla House, New Delhi]
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A.
Sansad Bhavan (Parliament House)
Sansad Bhavan (Parliament House) is the circular, colonnaded building in New Delhi that serves as the seat of India’s national legislature.
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B.
Rashtrapati Bhavan
Rashtrapati Bhavan is the official residence of the President of India, a vast and iconic presidential palace complex located in New Delhi.
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C.
Palace of Assembly, Chandigarh
The Palace of Assembly in Chandigarh is a landmark modernist government building in India, renowned for its bold concrete architecture and symbolic design by Swiss-French architect Le Corbusier.
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D.
National Museum, New Delhi
The National Museum in New Delhi is one of India’s largest and most important museums, housing extensive collections that span 5,000 years of the subcontinent’s art, history, and cultural heritage.
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E.
Red Fort
The Red Fort is a historic 17th-century sandstone fortress in Delhi, India, that served as the main residence of Mughal emperors and now stands as a prominent symbol of India's heritage and independence.
- 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: Birla House, New Delhi Target entity description: Birla House in New Delhi is a historic residence-turned-memorial most widely known as the site where Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated in 1948.
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A.
Sansad Bhavan (Parliament House)
Sansad Bhavan (Parliament House) is the circular, colonnaded building in New Delhi that serves as the seat of India’s national legislature.
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B.
Rashtrapati Bhavan
Rashtrapati Bhavan is the official residence of the President of India, a vast and iconic presidential palace complex located in New Delhi.
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C.
Palace of Assembly, Chandigarh
The Palace of Assembly in Chandigarh is a landmark modernist government building in India, renowned for its bold concrete architecture and symbolic design by Swiss-French architect Le Corbusier.
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D.
National Museum, New Delhi
The National Museum in New Delhi is one of India’s largest and most important museums, housing extensive collections that span 5,000 years of the subcontinent’s art, history, and cultural heritage.
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E.
Red Fort
The Red Fort is a historic 17th-century sandstone fortress in Delhi, India, that served as the main residence of Mughal emperors and now stands as a prominent symbol of India's heritage and independence.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
historic house
ⓘ
memorial ⓘ museum ⓘ tourist attraction ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Birla House, New Delhi
ⓘ
surface form:
Birla Bhavan
Gandhi Smriti ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | bungalow-style residence ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Indian independence movement
ⓘ
Mahatma Gandhi’s final prayer meetings ⓘ non-violence movement ⓘ |
| category |
Historic sites in India
ⓘ
Houses in New Delhi ⓘ Memorials to Mahatma Gandhi ⓘ Museums in Delhi ⓘ |
| cityDistrict | Lutyens' Delhi ⓘ |
| dateOfSignificantEvent | 30 January 1948 ⓘ |
| formerOwner |
Birla family
ⓘ
Ghanshyam Das Birla ⓘ |
| hasExhibition |
multimedia displays on Gandhi’s life
ⓘ
permanent exhibition on Mahatma Gandhi ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
eternal flame memorial
ⓘ
martyrdom spot of Mahatma Gandhi ⓘ museum on life of Mahatma Gandhi ⓘ photographs and personal belongings of Mahatma Gandhi ⓘ preserved last steps of Mahatma Gandhi ⓘ |
| hasGarden | yes ⓘ |
| hasMemorialTo | Mahatma Gandhi ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | protected site ⓘ |
| inceptionAsMemorial | 1970s ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Delhi
ⓘ
New Delhi, India ⓘ
surface form:
New Delhi
|
| locatedInCountry | India ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Mahatma Gandhi ⓘ |
| openToPublic | yes ⓘ |
| operatedBy |
Government of India
ⓘ
Ministry of Culture, Government of India ⓘ |
| significantEvent |
assassination of Mahatma Gandhi (aftermath)
ⓘ
surface form:
Assassination of Mahatma Gandhi
|
| streetAddress | 5, Tees January Marg ⓘ |
| subjectOf | heritage tourism in Delhi ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfUseAsResidenceByGandhi | 1947–1948 ⓘ |
| touristAttraction | yes ⓘ |
| use |
national memorial
ⓘ
public museum ⓘ residence of Mahatma Gandhi during his last days ⓘ |
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: Birla House, New Delhi Description of subject: Birla House in New Delhi is a historic residence-turned-memorial most widely known as the site where Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated in 1948.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Birla Bhavan
subject surface form:
Nathuram Godse
this entity surface form:
Birla House
subject surface form:
Nathuram Godse
this entity surface form:
Birla House
this entity surface form:
बिरला भवन
this entity surface form:
Birla House
this entity surface form:
Birla Bhavan