Raglan Castle
E162504
Raglan Castle is a grand late medieval and Tudor-era fortress in southeast Wales, renowned for its impressive ruins and distinctive hexagonal Great Tower.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Raglan Castle canonical | 13 |
| Raglan Castle (historical association) | 1 |
| Raglan Castle complex | 1 |
| Raglan Castle inner precinct | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1288662 — 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: Raglan Castle Context triple: [Monmouthshire, containsSite, Raglan Castle]
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A.
Blackrock Castle
Blackrock Castle is a historic riverside fortification near Cork City that now serves as an observatory and science centre open to the public.
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B.
Stormont Castle
Stormont Castle is a historic government building in Belfast that serves as the main administrative headquarters and meeting place for Northern Ireland’s executive leadership.
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C.
Dolwyddelan Castle
Dolwyddelan Castle is a medieval Welsh fortress in Snowdonia, traditionally associated with the native prince Llywelyn the Great and commanding a strategic mountain pass.
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D.
Cyfarthfa Castle
Cyfarthfa Castle is a 19th-century mock-Gothic mansion in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales, historically linked to the iron industry and now serving as a museum and public park.
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E.
Carlisle Castle
Carlisle Castle is a historic medieval fortress in Carlisle, Cumbria, England, that has served as a key military stronghold near the Anglo-Scottish border for centuries.
- 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: Raglan Castle Target entity description: Raglan Castle is a grand late medieval and Tudor-era fortress in southeast Wales, renowned for its impressive ruins and distinctive hexagonal Great Tower.
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A.
Blackrock Castle
Blackrock Castle is a historic riverside fortification near Cork City that now serves as an observatory and science centre open to the public.
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B.
Stormont Castle
Stormont Castle is a historic government building in Belfast that serves as the main administrative headquarters and meeting place for Northern Ireland’s executive leadership.
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C.
Dolwyddelan Castle
Dolwyddelan Castle is a medieval Welsh fortress in Snowdonia, traditionally associated with the native prince Llywelyn the Great and commanding a strategic mountain pass.
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D.
Cyfarthfa Castle
Cyfarthfa Castle is a 19th-century mock-Gothic mansion in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales, historically linked to the iron industry and now serving as a museum and public park.
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E.
Carlisle Castle
Carlisle Castle is a historic medieval fortress in Carlisle, Cumbria, England, that has served as a key military stronghold near the Anglo-Scottish border for centuries.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
castle
ⓘ
fortified manor house ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle |
Tudor
ⓘ
late medieval ⓘ |
| besiegedBy | Parliamentarian forces ⓘ |
| builtFor |
Herbert family
ⓘ
William ap Thomas ⓘ |
| category |
Castles in Monmouthshire
ⓘ
Ruined castles in Wales ⓘ Tourist attractions in Monmouthshire ⓘ |
| constructionStart | 15th century ⓘ |
| country | Wales ⓘ |
| currentCondition | ruin ⓘ |
| event | English Civil War siege ⓘ |
| feature |
Great Tower
ⓘ
courtyards ⓘ gatehouse ⓘ great hall ⓘ long gallery ⓘ moat around the Great Tower ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Buttery and kitchens
ⓘ
Fountain Court ⓘ Pitched Stone Court ⓘ South Gate ⓘ chapel ⓘ |
| hasViewOver | surrounding countryside of Monmouthshire ⓘ |
| heritageDesignation |
Grade I listed building
ⓘ
Scheduled monument ⓘ |
| knownFor |
hexagonal Great Tower
ⓘ
impressive ruins ⓘ late medieval and Tudor architecture ⓘ |
| laterOwner |
Earls of Worcester
ⓘ
Marquesses of Worcester ⓘ Somerset family ⓘ |
| location |
Raglan, Monmouthshire, Wales
ⓘ
linked to:
Raglan
|
| managedBy | Cadw ⓘ |
| materialUsed |
ashlar masonry
ⓘ
sandstone ⓘ |
| near |
A449 road
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
town of Monmouth ⓘ
linked to:
Monmouth
|
| openToPublic | yes ⓘ |
| ownership | Crown Estate ⓘ |
| partiallyDemolishedBy | Parliamentarian forces ⓘ |
| region |
Southeast Wales
ⓘ
linked to:
South East Wales
|
| surrenderedIn | 1646 ⓘ |
| surroundedBy | parkland ⓘ |
| tourism | popular visitor attraction ⓘ |
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: Raglan Castle Description of subject: Raglan Castle is a grand late medieval and Tudor-era fortress in southeast Wales, renowned for its impressive ruins and distinctive hexagonal Great Tower.
Referenced by (16)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Raglan Castle
subject linked to:
Great Tower
subject linked to:
Great Tower
linked to: Raglan Castle
linked to: Raglan Castle