Lochmaddy
E158485
Lochmaddy is a coastal village on the island of North Uist in Scotland’s Outer Hebrides, serving as its main ferry port and administrative centre.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Lochmaddy canonical | 15 |
| Lochmaddy, North Uist | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1052878 — 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: Lochmaddy Context triple: [North Uist, hasLargestSettlement, Lochmaddy]
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A.
Lochranza
Lochranza is a small coastal village on the Isle of Arran in Scotland, known for its scenic bay, historic castle ruins, and whisky distillery.
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B.
Bunessan
Bunessan is a small coastal village on the Isle of Mull in Scotland, known for its scenic bay and as the namesake of the hymn tune used for "Morning Has Broken."
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C.
Tentsmuir
Tentsmuir is a coastal area in northeast Fife, Scotland, known for its extensive sand dunes, pine forest, and nature reserve rich in wildlife.
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D.
Kilchoan
Kilchoan is a remote village on the Ardnamurchan peninsula in the Scottish Highlands, known as one of the most westerly settlements on the British mainland and a gateway to the Isle of Mull.
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E.
Kennacraig
Kennacraig is a small ferry terminal on the Kintyre peninsula in western Scotland, serving as the main mainland gateway for sailings to the Isle of Islay and nearby islands.
- 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: Lochmaddy Target entity description: Lochmaddy is a coastal village on the island of North Uist in Scotland’s Outer Hebrides, serving as its main ferry port and administrative centre.
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A.
Lochranza
Lochranza is a small coastal village on the Isle of Arran in Scotland, known for its scenic bay, historic castle ruins, and whisky distillery.
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B.
Bunessan
Bunessan is a small coastal village on the Isle of Mull in Scotland, known for its scenic bay and as the namesake of the hymn tune used for "Morning Has Broken."
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C.
Tentsmuir
Tentsmuir is a coastal area in northeast Fife, Scotland, known for its extensive sand dunes, pine forest, and nature reserve rich in wildlife.
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D.
Kilchoan
Kilchoan is a remote village on the Ardnamurchan peninsula in the Scottish Highlands, known as one of the most westerly settlements on the British mainland and a gateway to the Isle of Mull.
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E.
Kennacraig
Kennacraig is a small ferry terminal on the Kintyre peninsula in western Scotland, serving as the main mainland gateway for sailings to the Isle of Islay and nearby islands.
- 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: Lochmaddy Description of subject: Lochmaddy is a coastal village on the island of North Uist in Scotland’s Outer Hebrides, serving as its main ferry port and administrative centre.
Referenced by (17)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.