Béal an Átha
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Béal an Átha is the Irish-language name for the town of Ballina in County Mayo, Ireland.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Béal an Átha canonical | 2 |
| An Mhuaidh | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1520561 — 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: Béal an Átha Context triple: [Ballina, County Mayo, hasNativeName, Béal an Átha]
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A.
Carn a’ Ghaill
Carn a’ Ghaill is the summit that forms the highest point on the Scottish island of Canna in the Inner Hebrides.
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B.
An Cat Dubh
"An Cat Dubh" is a dark, atmospheric track by Irish rock band U2 from their debut album "Boy," known for its brooding tone and seamless transition into the song "Into the Heart."
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C.
A’ Chill
A’ Chill is a historic abandoned village and former main settlement on the Scottish island of Canna in the Inner Hebrides.
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D.
An Gorta Mór
An Gorta Mór is the Irish name for the Great Famine of the mid-19th century, a catastrophic period of mass starvation, disease, and emigration that profoundly reshaped Ireland’s population and history.
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E.
Irlams o’ th’ Height
Irlams o’ th’ Height is a suburban area of Salford in Greater Manchester, England, known primarily as a residential district with local shops and community amenities.
- 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: Béal an Átha Target entity description: Béal an Átha is the Irish-language name for the town of Ballina in County Mayo, Ireland.
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A.
Carn a’ Ghaill
Carn a’ Ghaill is the summit that forms the highest point on the Scottish island of Canna in the Inner Hebrides.
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B.
An Cat Dubh
"An Cat Dubh" is a dark, atmospheric track by Irish rock band U2 from their debut album "Boy," known for its brooding tone and seamless transition into the song "Into the Heart."
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C.
A’ Chill
A’ Chill is a historic abandoned village and former main settlement on the Scottish island of Canna in the Inner Hebrides.
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D.
An Gorta Mór
An Gorta Mór is the Irish name for the Great Famine of the mid-19th century, a catastrophic period of mass starvation, disease, and emigration that profoundly reshaped Ireland’s population and history.
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E.
Irlams o’ th’ Height
Irlams o’ th’ Height is a suburban area of Salford in Greater Manchester, England, known primarily as a residential district with local shops and community amenities.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human settlement
ⓘ
populated place ⓘ town ⓘ |
| country | Ireland ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName | Ballina ⓘ |
| hasCountyTown | Castlebar ⓘ |
| hasEnglishName | Ballina ⓘ |
| hasIrishGridReference | G ⓘ |
| hasIrishName | Béal an Átha ⓘ |
| hasLanguage | Irish ⓘ |
| hasLocalAuthority | Mayo County Council ⓘ |
| hasNameMeaning | mouth of the ford ⓘ |
| hasPostalTown | Ballina ⓘ |
| hasPrimaryLanguage | English ⓘ |
| hasProvince | Connacht ⓘ |
| hasRiver | River Moy ⓘ |
| hasSecondaryLanguage | Irish ⓘ |
| hasSettlementType | town ⓘ |
| IrishNameOf | Ballina ⓘ |
| isInRegion | west of Ireland ⓘ |
| isOnIsland | Ireland ⓘ |
| isPartOf | Republic of Ireland ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
County Mayo
ⓘ
province of Connacht ⓘ |
| locatedInSovereignState | Ireland ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Western European Time ⓘ |
| locatedOn | River Moy ⓘ |
| observesDaylightSavingTime | Irish Standard Time ⓘ |
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: Béal an Átha Description of subject: Béal an Átha is the Irish-language name for the town of Ballina in County Mayo, Ireland.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Ballina, County Mayo, Ireland