Carrick-on-Shannon
E180062
Carrick-on-Shannon is a prominent riverside town in County Leitrim, Ireland, known as a major boating and tourism hub on the River Shannon.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Carrick-on-Shannon canonical | 30 |
| Carrick-on-Shannon (regional centre) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1216293 — 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: Carrick-on-Shannon Context triple: [River Shannon, flowsThrough, Carrick-on-Shannon]
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A.
Dundalk
Dundalk is a large unincorporated community and suburb of Baltimore, Maryland, known for its residential neighborhoods and industrial history along the Patapsco River.
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B.
Omagh
Omagh is a town in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, known as the administrative centre of the county and tragically associated with a major 1998 bombing.
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C.
Athlone
Athlone is a major Irish town in the Midlands, known for its strategic location, historic castle, and role as a key crossing point between the east and west of Ireland.
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D.
Coleraine
Coleraine is a historic town in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland, known as an early plantation settlement and a key center in the Plantation of Ulster.
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E.
Armagh
Armagh is a historic city in Northern Ireland renowned as the ecclesiastical capital of Ireland and a major center of Christian heritage linked to Saint Patrick.
- 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: Carrick-on-Shannon Target entity description: Carrick-on-Shannon is a prominent riverside town in County Leitrim, Ireland, known as a major boating and tourism hub on the River Shannon.
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A.
Dundalk
Dundalk is a large unincorporated community and suburb of Baltimore, Maryland, known for its residential neighborhoods and industrial history along the Patapsco River.
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B.
Omagh
Omagh is a town in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, known as the administrative centre of the county and tragically associated with a major 1998 bombing.
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C.
Athlone
Athlone is a major Irish town in the Midlands, known for its strategic location, historic castle, and role as a key crossing point between the east and west of Ireland.
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D.
Coleraine
Coleraine is a historic town in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland, known as an early plantation settlement and a key center in the Plantation of Ulster.
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E.
Armagh
Armagh is a historic city in Northern Ireland renowned as the ecclesiastical capital of Ireland and a major center of Christian heritage linked to Saint Patrick.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Carrick-on-Shannon Description of subject: Carrick-on-Shannon is a prominent riverside town in County Leitrim, Ireland, known as a major boating and tourism hub on the River Shannon.
Referenced by (31)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Carrick-on-Shannon