Eyam
E129487
Eyam is a historic village in Derbyshire, England, best known for its self-imposed quarantine during the 1665–1666 bubonic plague outbreak to prevent the disease from spreading.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Eyam canonical | 23 |
| Eyam civil parish | 1 |
| Eyam plague | 1 |
| Eyam plague outbreak | 1 |
| Eyam village | 1 |
| Eyam, Hope Valley, Derbyshire, England | 1 |
| quarantine of Eyam during the Great Plague | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1138122 — 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: Eyam Context triple: [Anna Seward, placeOfBirth, Eyam]
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A.
Godalming
Godalming is a historic market town in southeast England known for its picturesque streets, riverside setting, and role as a commuter hub for London.
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B.
Shanklin
Shanklin is a popular seaside resort town on the Isle of Wight in England, known for its sandy beach, Victorian architecture, and scenic coastal walks.
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C.
Cudham
Cudham is a historic rural village in southeast England, known for its traditional character and countryside setting within Greater London.
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D.
Windlesham
Windlesham is a village and civil parish in the Surrey Heath district of Surrey, England, known for its affluent residential character and leafy surroundings.
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E.
Widford
Widford is a small rural village in Oxfordshire, England, known for its historic church and picturesque countryside setting.
- 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: Eyam Target entity description: Eyam is a historic village in Derbyshire, England, best known for its self-imposed quarantine during the 1665–1666 bubonic plague outbreak to prevent the disease from spreading.
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A.
Godalming
Godalming is a historic market town in southeast England known for its picturesque streets, riverside setting, and role as a commuter hub for London.
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B.
Shanklin
Shanklin is a popular seaside resort town on the Isle of Wight in England, known for its sandy beach, Victorian architecture, and scenic coastal walks.
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C.
Cudham
Cudham is a historic rural village in southeast England, known for its traditional character and countryside setting within Greater London.
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D.
Windlesham
Windlesham is a village and civil parish in the Surrey Heath district of Surrey, England, known for its affluent residential character and leafy surroundings.
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E.
Widford
Widford is a small rural village in Oxfordshire, England, known for its historic church and picturesque countryside setting.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Eyam Description of subject: Eyam is a historic village in Derbyshire, England, best known for its self-imposed quarantine during the 1665–1666 bubonic plague outbreak to prevent the disease from spreading.
Referenced by (29)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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