County Waterford
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County Waterford is a coastal county in southeastern Ireland known for its rugged shoreline, historic Viking and Norman heritage, and the city of Waterford, famed for its crystal glass.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| County Waterford canonical | 128 |
| Co. Waterford | 1 |
| Waterford (partly historically) | 1 |
| Waterford, County Waterford, Ireland | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2148205 — 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: County Waterford Context triple: [St George’s Channel, hasShoreOn, County Waterford]
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A.
County Wexford
County Wexford is a county in southeastern Ireland known for its rich Norman heritage, coastal landscapes, and distinctive historical dialects.
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B.
County Limerick
County Limerick is a county in Ireland’s midwest, centered on the city of Limerick and known for its rich medieval history, cultural heritage, and fertile rural landscapes.
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C.
County Westmeath
County Westmeath is a landlocked county in Ireland’s Midlands region, known for its lakes, historic towns like Mullingar and Athlone, and rich agricultural landscape.
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D.
County Cork
County Cork is the largest county in Ireland, known for its vibrant city of Cork, rugged Atlantic coastline, and rich cultural and historical heritage.
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E.
County Kilkenny
County Kilkenny is a historic inland county in southeastern Ireland known for its medieval city of Kilkenny, rich cultural heritage, and picturesque rural landscapes.
- 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: County Waterford Target entity description: County Waterford is a coastal county in southeastern Ireland known for its rugged shoreline, historic Viking and Norman heritage, and the city of Waterford, famed for its crystal glass.
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A.
County Wexford
County Wexford is a county in southeastern Ireland known for its rich Norman heritage, coastal landscapes, and distinctive historical dialects.
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B.
County Limerick
County Limerick is a county in Ireland’s midwest, centered on the city of Limerick and known for its rich medieval history, cultural heritage, and fertile rural landscapes.
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C.
County Westmeath
County Westmeath is a landlocked county in Ireland’s Midlands region, known for its lakes, historic towns like Mullingar and Athlone, and rich agricultural landscape.
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D.
County Cork
County Cork is the largest county in Ireland, known for its vibrant city of Cork, rugged Atlantic coastline, and rich cultural and historical heritage.
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E.
County Kilkenny
County Kilkenny is a historic inland county in southeastern Ireland known for its medieval city of Kilkenny, rich cultural heritage, and picturesque rural landscapes.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
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: County Waterford Description of subject: County Waterford is a coastal county in southeastern Ireland known for its rugged shoreline, historic Viking and Norman heritage, and the city of Waterford, famed for its crystal glass.
Referenced by (131)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Lismore Castle, County Waterford, Ireland
subject linked to:
Boyle family
subject linked to:
Richard Mulcahy (as party leader influence, historically associated)
subject linked to:
Patrick Power
subject linked to:
Patrick Power
linked to: County Waterford
linked to: County Waterford
subject linked to:
Carrick-on-Suir, County Tipperary, Ireland
subject linked to:
Ring, County Waterford, Ireland
subject linked to:
Waterford Airport (nearby regional access)