Loch Dochfour
E226971
Loch Dochfour is a small freshwater loch in the Scottish Highlands that forms the western outlet of Loch Ness near Inverness.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Loch Dochfour canonical | 2 |
| Loch Nis | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1489209 — 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: Loch Dochfour Context triple: [Loch Ness, connectedTo, Loch Dochfour]
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A.
Loch Lochy
Loch Lochy is a long, deep freshwater loch in the Scottish Highlands, forming part of the Great Glen and the Caledonian Canal system.
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B.
Loch Oich
Loch Oich is a freshwater loch in the Scottish Highlands, situated along the Great Glen between Loch Ness and Loch Lochy and forming part of the Caledonian Canal.
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C.
Loch Linnhe
Loch Linnhe is a long sea loch on the west coast of Scotland, known for its scenic beauty and its alignment along a major geological fault line.
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D.
Airthrey Loch
Airthrey Loch is a scenic freshwater lake situated at the heart of the University of Stirling campus in Scotland, known for its picturesque setting and wildlife.
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E.
Loch Earn
Loch Earn is a freshwater loch in the Scottish Highlands, known for its scenic surroundings, outdoor recreation, and nearby villages such as Lochearnhead and St Fillans.
- 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: Loch Dochfour Target entity description: Loch Dochfour is a small freshwater loch in the Scottish Highlands that forms the western outlet of Loch Ness near Inverness.
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A.
Loch Lochy
Loch Lochy is a long, deep freshwater loch in the Scottish Highlands, forming part of the Great Glen and the Caledonian Canal system.
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B.
Loch Oich
Loch Oich is a freshwater loch in the Scottish Highlands, situated along the Great Glen between Loch Ness and Loch Lochy and forming part of the Caledonian Canal.
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C.
Loch Linnhe
Loch Linnhe is a long sea loch on the west coast of Scotland, known for its scenic beauty and its alignment along a major geological fault line.
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D.
Airthrey Loch
Airthrey Loch is a scenic freshwater lake situated at the heart of the University of Stirling campus in Scotland, known for its picturesque setting and wildlife.
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E.
Loch Earn
Loch Earn is a freshwater loch in the Scottish Highlands, known for its scenic surroundings, outdoor recreation, and nearby villages such as Lochearnhead and St Fillans.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
body of water
ⓘ
freshwater loch ⓘ natural lake ⓘ |
| basinCountry |
Scotland
ⓘ
United Kingdom ⓘ |
| connectedTo |
Loch Ness
ⓘ
River Ness ⓘ |
| continent | Europe ⓘ |
| country |
Scotland
ⓘ
United Kingdom ⓘ |
| drainageBasin | River Ness basin ⓘ |
| formsOutletOf | Loch Ness ⓘ |
| hasGeographicFeature | loch ⓘ |
| hasShoreLengthUnit | kilometres ⓘ |
| hasWaterSalinity | fresh ⓘ |
| inflow | Loch Ness ⓘ |
| isWesternOutletOf | Loch Ness ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Great Glen
ⓘ
Highland council area ⓘ Scottish Highlands ⓘ northern Scotland ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Inverness ⓘ |
| locatedOnWatercourse | River Ness ⓘ |
| nearbyCity | Inverness ⓘ |
| outflow | River Ness ⓘ |
| partOf |
Great Glen hydrological system
ⓘ
River Ness system ⓘ
linked to:
River Ness
|
| region |
Highlands of Scotland
ⓘ
linked to:
Scottish Highlands
|
| waterType | freshwater ⓘ |
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: Loch Dochfour Description of subject: Loch Dochfour is a small freshwater loch in the Scottish Highlands that forms the western outlet of Loch Ness near Inverness.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Loch Dochfour