Little Minch
E113544
Little Minch is a strait off the northwest coast of Scotland that separates the Isle of Skye from the Outer Hebrides.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Little Minch canonical | 9 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T964435 — 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: Little Minch Context triple: [Isle of Skye, borderedBy, Little Minch]
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A.
Milhous
Milhous is the distinctive middle name of Richard Nixon, the 37th president of the United States.
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B.
Munnik
Munnik is a given name associated with J. B. M. Hertzog, a prominent early 20th-century South African prime minister and political leader.
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C.
Mille
Mille is a French surname most notably borne by individuals such as Stéphane Mille.
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D.
Alupka
Alupka is a resort town on the southern coast of Crimea, known for the Neo-Gothic and Moorish-style Vorontsov Palace and its scenic location at the foot of Mount Ai-Petri.
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E.
Maimies
Maimies is an alternate historical name for the Mayaimi people, a Native American group that once inhabited the Lake Okeechobee region of present-day Florida.
- 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: Little Minch Target entity description: Little Minch is a strait off the northwest coast of Scotland that separates the Isle of Skye from the Outer Hebrides.
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A.
Milhous
Milhous is the distinctive middle name of Richard Nixon, the 37th president of the United States.
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B.
Munnik
Munnik is a given name associated with J. B. M. Hertzog, a prominent early 20th-century South African prime minister and political leader.
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C.
Mille
Mille is a French surname most notably borne by individuals such as Stéphane Mille.
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D.
Alupka
Alupka is a resort town on the southern coast of Crimea, known for the Neo-Gothic and Moorish-style Vorontsov Palace and its scenic location at the foot of Mount Ai-Petri.
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E.
Maimies
Maimies is an alternate historical name for the Mayaimi people, a Native American group that once inhabited the Lake Okeechobee region of present-day Florida.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | strait ⓘ |
| connectsTo |
Sea of the Hebrides
ⓘ
The Minch ⓘ |
| country | Scotland ⓘ |
| hasClimate | maritime climate ⓘ |
| hasCoastlineIn |
Highland council area
ⓘ
Na h-Eileanan Siar council area ⓘ |
| hasEcosystem | marine ecosystem ⓘ |
| hasLanguageRegion | Scottish Gaelic ⓘ |
| hasNavigationHazard |
rough seas
ⓘ
strong currents ⓘ |
| hasNearbyIsland |
Harris
ⓘ
Isle of Skye ⓘ Lewis ⓘ North Uist ⓘ South Uist ⓘ |
| isInWaterbody | Atlantic Ocean ⓘ |
| isKnownFor |
scenic coastal landscapes
ⓘ
wildlife-rich waters ⓘ |
| isPartOf | Hebridean waters ⓘ |
| locatedBetween | Isle of Skye and Outer Hebrides ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Inner Hebrides region
ⓘ
linked to:
Inner Hebrides
Outer Hebrides region ⓘ
linked to:
Outer Hebrides
northwest coast of Scotland ⓘ |
| partOf |
North Atlantic Ocean
ⓘ
linked to:
Atlantic Ocean
|
| separates |
Isle of Skye
ⓘ
Outer Hebrides ⓘ |
| usedFor |
ferry routes
ⓘ
maritime navigation ⓘ |
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: Little Minch Description of subject: Little Minch is a strait off the northwest coast of Scotland that separates the Isle of Skye from the Outer Hebrides.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.