Tachileik
E680726
Tachileik is a town in eastern Myanmar’s Shan State, situated on the border with Thailand and serving as a major cross-border trade and travel gateway.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tachileik canonical | 3 |
| Mae Sai–Tachileik area | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7676981 — 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: Tachileik Context triple: [Mae Sai, hasBorderTownAcross, Tachileik]
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A.
Taunggyi
Taunggyi is a major city in eastern Myanmar known as an administrative, cultural, and commercial center in the Shan region.
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B.
Mae Sai
Mae Sai is a northern Thai town in Chiang Rai Province known as a major border crossing and trading hub with Myanmar.
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C.
Viengxay
Viengxay is a town in northeastern Laos renowned for its extensive cave system that served as the Pathet Lao’s underground stronghold during the Laotian Civil War.
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D.
Phek
Phek is a town and administrative headquarters in the northeastern Indian state of Nagaland, known for its hilly terrain and predominantly tribal population.
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E.
Mongnai
Mongnai is a historic town and former princely state in Myanmar’s Shan region, known for its role within the traditional Shan States.
- 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: Tachileik Target entity description: Tachileik is a town in eastern Myanmar’s Shan State, situated on the border with Thailand and serving as a major cross-border trade and travel gateway.
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A.
Taunggyi
Taunggyi is a major city in eastern Myanmar known as an administrative, cultural, and commercial center in the Shan region.
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B.
Mae Sai
Mae Sai is a northern Thai town in Chiang Rai Province known as a major border crossing and trading hub with Myanmar.
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C.
Viengxay
Viengxay is a town in northeastern Laos renowned for its extensive cave system that served as the Pathet Lao’s underground stronghold during the Laotian Civil War.
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D.
Phek
Phek is a town and administrative headquarters in the northeastern Indian state of Nagaland, known for its hilly terrain and predominantly tribal population.
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E.
Mongnai
Mongnai is a historic town and former princely state in Myanmar’s Shan region, known for its role within the traditional Shan States.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | town ⓘ |
| airportIATAcode | THL NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| airportICAOcode | VYTL NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| borderCheckpointWith | Mae Sai NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| borderControlManagedBy | Myanmar immigration authorities NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| borderWith | Thailand NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| connectedByBridgeTo | Mae Sai NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Myanmar ⓘ |
| crossBorderGatewayFor |
trade
ⓘ
travel ⓘ |
| hasAirport | Tachileik Airport NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasBorderCrossingType | land border crossing ⓘ |
| hasBorderTown | Mae Sai NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasClimate | tropical savanna climate ⓘ |
| hasEthnicGroup |
Akha
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Bamar NERFINISHED ⓘ Chinese ⓘ Lahu NERFINISHED ⓘ Shan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLandmark |
Shwedagon Pagoda replica
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Tachileik Shwedagon Pagoda NERFINISHED ⓘ border friendship bridge NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMarketType | border market ⓘ |
| hasReligion |
Christianity
ⓘ
Islam ⓘ Theravada Buddhism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRiver | Mae Sai River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageUsed |
Burmese language
ⓘ
Shan language NERFINISHED ⓘ Thai language NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Shan State
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
eastern Myanmar ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeDivision |
Tachileik District
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Tachileik Township NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nearBorderOf | Lao People’s Democratic Republic NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nearRiver | Mae Sai River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| oppositeSideBorderControlManagedBy | Thai immigration authorities NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Golden Triangle region NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOfRegion | eastern Shan State NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryEconomicActivity |
cross-border trade
ⓘ
retail commerce ⓘ tourism ⓘ |
| roadConnectionTo |
Kengtung
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mae Sai NERFINISHED ⓘ Taunggyi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| servedBy | Tachileik Airport NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timezone | Myanmar Time NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usesCurrency | Myanmar kyat NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usesForeignCurrencyInformally | Thai baht NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| UTCoffset | +06:30 ⓘ |
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: Tachileik Description of subject: Tachileik is a town in eastern Myanmar’s Shan State, situated on the border with Thailand and serving as a major cross-border trade and travel gateway.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Mae Sai–Tachileik area