Patna division
E379529
Patna division is an administrative division in the Indian state of Bihar, encompassing the city of Patna and surrounding districts for regional governance.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Patna division canonical | 5 |
| Patna region | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3678835 — 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: Patna division Context triple: [Patna, locatedInDivision, Patna division]
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A.
Patna district
Patna district is an administrative district in the state of Bihar, India, encompassing the state capital city of Patna and its surrounding areas.
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B.
Gorakhpur Division
Gorakhpur Division was an administrative subdivision in British India within the North-Western Provinces, centered on the city of Gorakhpur and surrounding districts in the eastern Gangetic plain.
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C.
Allahabad Division
Allahabad Division was an administrative subdivision centered on the city of Allahabad within British India’s North-Western Provinces.
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D.
Benares Division
Benares Division was an administrative division centered around the historic city of Benares (Varanasi) in British India’s North-Western Provinces.
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E.
Darbhanga division
Darbhanga division is an administrative division in the Indian state of Bihar, centered around the city of Darbhanga and comprising several districts in the Mithila region.
- 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: Patna division Target entity description: Patna division is an administrative division in the Indian state of Bihar, encompassing the city of Patna and surrounding districts for regional governance.
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A.
Patna district
Patna district is an administrative district in the state of Bihar, India, encompassing the state capital city of Patna and its surrounding areas.
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B.
Gorakhpur Division
Gorakhpur Division was an administrative subdivision in British India within the North-Western Provinces, centered on the city of Gorakhpur and surrounding districts in the eastern Gangetic plain.
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C.
Allahabad Division
Allahabad Division was an administrative subdivision centered on the city of Allahabad within British India’s North-Western Provinces.
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D.
Benares Division
Benares Division was an administrative division centered around the historic city of Benares (Varanasi) in British India’s North-Western Provinces.
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E.
Darbhanga division
Darbhanga division is an administrative division in the Indian state of Bihar, centered around the city of Darbhanga and comprising several districts in the Mithila region.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (34)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
administrative division
ⓘ
division of Bihar ⓘ |
| capital | Patna ⓘ |
| containsAdministrativeTerritorialEntity |
Bhojpur district
ⓘ
Buxar ⓘ
surface form:
Buxar district
Kaimur district ⓘ Nalanda district ⓘ Patna district ⓘ Rohtas district ⓘ |
| containsCity |
Ara
ⓘ
Bhabua ⓘ Buxar ⓘ Patna ⓘ Sasaram ⓘ |
| country | India ⓘ |
| governmentType | divisional administration ⓘ |
| hasAdministrativeHead | Divisional Commissioner ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
coordination of district administration
ⓘ
implementation of state government policies ⓘ law and order supervision ⓘ revenue administration ⓘ |
| hasRole |
administrative coordination
ⓘ
regional governance ⓘ |
| headquarters | Patna ⓘ |
| languageUsed |
Bhojpuri
ⓘ
Hindi ⓘ Magahi ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion |
Magadh region
ⓘ
eastern India ⓘ |
| locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity | Bihar ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Indian Standard Time ⓘ |
| state | Bihar ⓘ |
| subdivisionOf | Bihar administrative structure ⓘ |
| 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: Patna division Description of subject: Patna division is an administrative division in the Indian state of Bihar, encompassing the city of Patna and surrounding districts for regional governance.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Patna region
subject surface form:
Bihar Sharif