Yamunotri
E39760
Yamunotri is a revered Hindu pilgrimage site in the Garhwal Himalayas of Uttarakhand, India, known as one of the Char Dham and the high-altitude temple area associated with the origin of the Yamuna River.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Yamunotri canonical | 8 |
| Yamunotri Glacier | 3 |
| Gauri Kund | 1 |
| Yamunotri town | 1 |
| Yamunotri valley | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T308913 — 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: Yamunotri Context triple: [Yamuna, sourceLocation, Yamunotri]
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A.
Gangotri Glacier
Gangotri Glacier is a major Himalayan glacier in Uttarakhand, India, revered in Hinduism and known as the primary ice source feeding the upper reaches of the Ganges River.
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B.
Rawal Lake
Rawal Lake is an artificial reservoir and popular recreational spot located near Islamabad in Pakistan’s Margalla Hills foothills.
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C.
Saraswati
Saraswati is the Hindu goddess of knowledge, wisdom, music, and the arts, revered as the divine embodiment of learning and creative inspiration.
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D.
Ghataprabha River
The Ghataprabha River is a significant river in southern India that flows through Karnataka and Maharashtra, supporting irrigation, agriculture, and hydroelectric projects before joining the Krishna River.
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E.
Sutlej River
The Sutlej River is a major transboundary river of the northwestern Indian subcontinent, originating in Tibet and flowing through the Himalayas into the plains of India and Pakistan, where it forms an important part of the Indus River system.
- 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: Yamunotri Target entity description: Yamunotri is a revered Hindu pilgrimage site in the Garhwal Himalayas of Uttarakhand, India, known as one of the Char Dham and the high-altitude temple area associated with the origin of the Yamuna River.
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A.
Gangotri Glacier
Gangotri Glacier is a major Himalayan glacier in Uttarakhand, India, revered in Hinduism and known as the primary ice source feeding the upper reaches of the Ganges River.
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B.
Rawal Lake
Rawal Lake is an artificial reservoir and popular recreational spot located near Islamabad in Pakistan’s Margalla Hills foothills.
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C.
Saraswati
Saraswati is the Hindu goddess of knowledge, wisdom, music, and the arts, revered as the divine embodiment of learning and creative inspiration.
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D.
Ghataprabha River
The Ghataprabha River is a significant river in southern India that flows through Karnataka and Maharashtra, supporting irrigation, agriculture, and hydroelectric projects before joining the Krishna River.
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E.
Sutlej River
The Sutlej River is a major transboundary river of the northwestern Indian subcontinent, originating in Tibet and flowing through the Himalayas into the plains of India and Pakistan, where it forms an important part of the Indus River system.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Hindu holy place
ⓘ
Hindu pilgrimage site ⓘ temple town ⓘ |
| accessMode |
by palanquin
ⓘ
by pony ⓘ on foot ⓘ |
| administrativeState | Uttarakhand ⓘ |
| associatedWith | source of the Yamuna River ⓘ |
| associatedWithDeity |
Surya
ⓘ
Yama ⓘ |
| associatedWithGoddess | Yamuna ⓘ |
| associatedWithMythology | sage Asit Muni ⓘ |
| charDhamSequence | traditionally first stop in the Char Dham yatra of Uttarakhand ⓘ |
| country | India ⓘ |
| dedicatedToDeity | goddess Yamuna ⓘ |
| elevation | approximately 3293 metres above sea level ⓘ |
| glacierAltitude | about 4421 metres ⓘ |
| hasCategory |
Char Dham
ⓘ
surface form:
Char Dham temples
Hindu pilgrimage sites in Uttarakhand ⓘ Yamuna ⓘ
surface form:
Yamuna River basin
|
| hasHotSpring |
Yamunotri
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Gauri Kund
Surya Kund ⓘ |
| hasTemple | Yamunotri Temple ⓘ |
| knownFor |
high-altitude temple of goddess Yamuna
ⓘ
origin area of the Yamuna River ⓘ part of Himalayan Char Dham circuit ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Garhwal
ⓘ
surface form:
Garhwal Himalayas
Uttarakhand ⓘ |
| locatedInDistrict | Uttarkashi district ⓘ |
| locatedInMountainRange | Himalayas ⓘ |
| locatedNearGlacier | Champasar Glacier ⓘ |
| locatedOn | left bank of the Yamuna River ⓘ |
| locatedOnRiver |
Yamuna
ⓘ
surface form:
Yamuna River
|
| mainDeity | Yamuna idol ⓘ |
| nearestMajorTown | Barkot ⓘ |
| nearestRoadHead | Janki Chatti ⓘ |
| partOf |
Char Dham
ⓘ
surface form:
Char Dham of Uttarakhand
Char Dham ⓘ
surface form:
Chota Char Dham
Garhwal ⓘ
surface form:
Garhwal region
|
| pilgrimageSeason | late April to early November ⓘ |
| religion | Hinduism ⓘ |
| ritualPractice | cooking rice and potatoes in hot springs as prasad ⓘ |
| stateCapitalNearest | Dehradun ⓘ |
| templeClosing | on Diwali ⓘ |
| templeOpening | on Akshaya Tritiya ⓘ |
| tourismType |
religious tourism
ⓘ
trekking destination ⓘ |
| trekDistanceFromRoadHead | about 5 kilometres ⓘ |
| winterSeatOfDeity | Kharsali village ⓘ |
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: Yamunotri Description of subject: Yamunotri is a revered Hindu pilgrimage site in the Garhwal Himalayas of Uttarakhand, India, known as one of the Char Dham and the high-altitude temple area associated with the origin of the Yamuna River.
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Yamunotri Glacier
this entity surface form:
Gauri Kund
this entity surface form:
Yamunotri Glacier
subject surface form:
Yamuna
this entity surface form:
Yamunotri town
this entity surface form:
Yamunotri Glacier
this entity surface form:
Yamunotri valley