PA
E136742
PA is the postcode area in western Scotland that covers Paisley and parts of the surrounding Greater Glasgow region.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| PA canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1190636 — 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: PA Context triple: [Paisley, hasPostcodeArea, PA]
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A.
PA
PA is the standard two-letter U.S. Postal Service abbreviation for the state of Pennsylvania.
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B.
PAR
PAR is the IATA city code representing the collective airport system serving Paris, France, including major airports such as Charles de Gaulle and Orly.
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C.
P
P is the vehicle registration code used on license plates for the Czech city of Plzeň.
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D.
Ap
Ap is the commonly used abbreviation for the Norwegian Labour Party, a major social-democratic political party in Norway.
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E.
PB
PB is the post-nominal abbreviation used to denote recipients of the Padma Bhushan, one of India’s highest civilian honors.
- 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: PA Target entity description: PA is the postcode area in western Scotland that covers Paisley and parts of the surrounding Greater Glasgow region.
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A.
PA
PA is the standard two-letter U.S. Postal Service abbreviation for the state of Pennsylvania.
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B.
PAR
PAR is the IATA city code representing the collective airport system serving Paris, France, including major airports such as Charles de Gaulle and Orly.
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C.
P
P is the vehicle registration code used on license plates for the Czech city of Plzeň.
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D.
Ap
Ap is the commonly used abbreviation for the Norwegian Labour Party, a major social-democratic political party in Norway.
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E.
PB
PB is the post-nominal abbreviation used to denote recipients of the Padma Bhushan, one of India’s highest civilian honors.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (81)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
geographic region
ⓘ
postcode area ⓘ |
| abbreviation | PA ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| covers |
Argyll and Bute
ⓘ
Greater Glasgow region ⓘ
linked to:
Greater Glasgow
Inverclyde ⓘ Paisley ⓘ Renfrewshire ⓘ parts of West Dunbartonshire ⓘ |
| hasPostcodeDistrict |
PA1
ⓘ
PA10 ⓘ PA11 ⓘ PA12 ⓘ PA13 ⓘ PA14 ⓘ PA15 ⓘ PA16 ⓘ PA17 ⓘ PA18 ⓘ PA19 ⓘ PA2 ⓘ PA20 ⓘ PA21 ⓘ PA22 ⓘ PA23 ⓘ PA24 ⓘ PA25 ⓘ PA26 ⓘ PA27 ⓘ PA28 ⓘ PA29 ⓘ PA3 ⓘ PA30 ⓘ PA31 ⓘ PA32 ⓘ PA33 ⓘ PA34 ⓘ PA35 ⓘ PA36 ⓘ PA37 ⓘ PA38 ⓘ PA4 ⓘ PA41 ⓘ PA42 ⓘ PA43 ⓘ PA44 ⓘ PA45 ⓘ PA46 ⓘ PA47 ⓘ PA48 ⓘ PA49 ⓘ PA5 ⓘ PA6 ⓘ PA60 ⓘ PA61 ⓘ PA62 ⓘ PA63 ⓘ PA64 ⓘ PA65 ⓘ PA66 ⓘ PA67 ⓘ PA68 ⓘ PA69 ⓘ PA7 ⓘ PA70 ⓘ PA71 ⓘ PA72 ⓘ PA73 ⓘ PA74 ⓘ PA75 ⓘ PA76 ⓘ PA77 ⓘ PA78 ⓘ PA8 ⓘ PA9 ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Scotland
ⓘ
western Scotland ⓘ
linked to:
West of Scotland
|
| postalSystem |
UK postcode system
ⓘ
linked to:
United Kingdom postcode system
|
| servesCity | Paisley ⓘ |
| servesRegion | Greater Glasgow ⓘ |
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: PA Description of subject: PA is the postcode area in western Scotland that covers Paisley and parts of the surrounding Greater Glasgow region.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.