Cairnryan ferry terminal
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Cairnryan ferry terminal is a major Scottish port facility on Loch Ryan that provides ferry services across the Irish Sea, primarily linking Scotland with Northern Ireland.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Port of Cairnryan | 4 |
| Cairnryan ferry terminal canonical | 2 |
| Cairnryan ferry port | 1 |
| Cairnryan ferry terminals | 1 |
| Loch Ryan ferry port at Cairnryan | 1 |
| Stranraer ferry terminal | 1 |
| ferry port of Cairnryan | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2086886 — 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: Cairnryan ferry terminal Context triple: [Cairnryan, hasPort, Cairnryan ferry terminal]
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A.
Port of Troon
The Port of Troon is a small but important commercial and ferry port on Scotland’s west coast, handling cargo, fishing, and passenger services across the Firth of Clyde.
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B.
Port of Menteith
Port of Menteith is a small scenic village in the Stirling council area of Scotland, situated near the Lake of Menteith and known for its tranquil rural setting.
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C.
St Andrews Harbour
St Andrews Harbour is the historic small fishing and leisure port of the coastal town of St Andrews in Fife, Scotland, known for its picturesque setting and maritime heritage.
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D.
Gare Loch
Gare Loch is a sea loch on the west coast of Scotland, known for its deep sheltered waters and its role as a key naval area near the town of Helensburgh.
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E.
Port Glasgow
Port Glasgow is a town in Inverclyde, Scotland, historically known as a significant shipbuilding and maritime center on the River Clyde.
- 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: Cairnryan ferry terminal Target entity description: Cairnryan ferry terminal is a major Scottish port facility on Loch Ryan that provides ferry services across the Irish Sea, primarily linking Scotland with Northern Ireland.
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A.
Port of Troon
The Port of Troon is a small but important commercial and ferry port on Scotland’s west coast, handling cargo, fishing, and passenger services across the Firth of Clyde.
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B.
Port of Menteith
Port of Menteith is a small scenic village in the Stirling council area of Scotland, situated near the Lake of Menteith and known for its tranquil rural setting.
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C.
Aberdour harbour
Aberdour harbour is a small historic coastal harbour in the village of Aberdour on the Firth of Forth in Fife, Scotland, used mainly for leisure craft and local fishing.
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D.
St Andrews Harbour
St Andrews Harbour is the historic small fishing and leisure port of the coastal town of St Andrews in Fife, Scotland, known for its picturesque setting and maritime heritage.
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E.
Gare Loch
Gare Loch is a sea loch on the west coast of Scotland, known for its deep sheltered waters and its role as a key naval area near the town of Helensburgh.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ferry terminal
ⓘ
port facility ⓘ transport infrastructure ⓘ |
| bodyOfWater |
Irish Sea
ⓘ
Loch Ryan ⓘ |
| connectsTo |
Belfast ferry terminal
ⓘ
linked to:
Port of Belfast
Larne ferry terminal ⓘ
linked to:
Port of Larne
|
| country | Scotland ⓘ |
| crosses | Irish Sea ⓘ |
| function | provides ferry services across the Irish Sea ⓘ |
| hasAccessRoad | A77 road NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| linkType | Scotland–Northern Ireland ferry link ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Cairnryan
ⓘ
Dumfries and Galloway ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ |
| locatedOn |
Irish Sea
ⓘ
Loch Ryan ⓘ |
| nearbyTown | Stranraer ⓘ |
| primaryUse |
freight transport
ⓘ
passenger transport ⓘ vehicle transport ⓘ |
| regionServed |
Northern Ireland
ⓘ
South West Scotland ⓘ
linked to:
southwest Scotland
|
| servesCountry |
Northern Ireland
ⓘ
Scotland ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ |
| servesRoute | Scotland–Northern Ireland ⓘ |
| strategicImportance | major Scottish port on Loch Ryan ⓘ |
| transportMode |
roll-on/roll-off ferry
ⓘ
sea transport ⓘ |
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: Cairnryan ferry terminal Description of subject: Cairnryan ferry terminal is a major Scottish port facility on Loch Ryan that provides ferry services across the Irish Sea, primarily linking Scotland with Northern Ireland.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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