Mallard
E159765
Mallard is a famous British LNER Class A4 steam locomotive that holds the world speed record for steam traction, preserved today as a historic exhibit.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mallard canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1387682 — 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: Mallard Context triple: [National Railway Museum, hasExhibit, Mallard]
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A.
Ducks
Ducks is the nickname for the University of Oregon’s athletic teams, most prominently its college football program.
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B.
pink-footed goose
The pink-footed goose is a migratory waterfowl species that breeds in Arctic regions and winters in northwestern Europe, where it gathers in large flocks at coastal and estuarine wetlands.
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C.
spectacled eider
The spectacled eider is a sea duck of Arctic coastal regions, recognizable by its distinctive “spectacled” eye markings and reliance on remote marine habitats for breeding and wintering.
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D.
River Crake
The River Crake is a short river in the Lake District of Cumbria, England, flowing from Coniston Water southward to join the River Leven near Morecambe Bay.
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E.
Pelican
Pelican was the English galleon originally commanded by Sir Francis Drake on his circumnavigation voyage, later renamed the Golden Hind.
- 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: Mallard Target entity description: Mallard is a famous British LNER Class A4 steam locomotive that holds the world speed record for steam traction, preserved today as a historic exhibit.
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A.
Ducks
Ducks is the nickname for the University of Oregon’s athletic teams, most prominently its college football program.
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B.
pink-footed goose
The pink-footed goose is a migratory waterfowl species that breeds in Arctic regions and winters in northwestern Europe, where it gathers in large flocks at coastal and estuarine wetlands.
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C.
spectacled eider
The spectacled eider is a sea duck of Arctic coastal regions, recognizable by its distinctive “spectacled” eye markings and reliance on remote marine habitats for breeding and wintering.
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D.
River Crake
The River Crake is a short river in the Lake District of Cumbria, England, flowing from Coniston Water southward to join the River Leven near Morecambe Bay.
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E.
Pelican
Pelican was the English galleon originally commanded by Sir Francis Drake on his circumnavigation voyage, later renamed the Golden Hind.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Mallard Description of subject: Mallard is a famous British LNER Class A4 steam locomotive that holds the world speed record for steam traction, preserved today as a historic exhibit.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.