Meifod
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Meifod is a small village in Powys, Wales, situated in a rural valley landscape near the River Vyrnwy.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2318869 — 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: Meifod Context triple: [River Vyrnwy, flowsNear, Meifod]
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A.
Maeslantkering
Maeslantkering is a massive movable storm surge barrier in the Netherlands that protects the low-lying Rotterdam region from North Sea flooding.
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B.
Disgwylfa Fawr
Disgwylfa Fawr is a hill in the Plynlimon range of mid Wales, known for its open moorland slopes and expansive views over the surrounding uplands.
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C.
The Kymin
The Kymin is a historic hilltop site near Monmouth in Wales, known for its picturesque views and Georgian-era naval monument and round house.
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D.
Gwyniad
The Gwyniad is a rare freshwater whitefish species endemic to a single Welsh lake, making it of significant conservation concern.
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E.
Shifnal
Shifnal is a small market town in Shropshire, England, known for its historic buildings and proximity to Telford.
- 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: Meifod Target entity description: Meifod is a small village in Powys, Wales, situated in a rural valley landscape near the River Vyrnwy.
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A.
Maeslantkering
Maeslantkering is a massive movable storm surge barrier in the Netherlands that protects the low-lying Rotterdam region from North Sea flooding.
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B.
Disgwylfa Fawr
Disgwylfa Fawr is a hill in the Plynlimon range of mid Wales, known for its open moorland slopes and expansive views over the surrounding uplands.
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C.
The Kymin
The Kymin is a historic hilltop site near Monmouth in Wales, known for its picturesque views and Georgian-era naval monument and round house.
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D.
Gwyniad
The Gwyniad is a rare freshwater whitefish species endemic to a single Welsh lake, making it of significant conservation concern.
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E.
Shifnal
Shifnal is a small market town in Shropshire, England, known for its historic buildings and proximity to Telford.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
settlement
ⓘ
village ⓘ |
| country | Wales ⓘ |
| hasCommunity | Meifod ⓘ |
| hasCountrySubdivisionType | community ⓘ |
| hasDialingCode | 01938 ⓘ |
| hasLandscapeType | rural valley ⓘ |
| hasLocalGovernment | Powys County Council ⓘ |
| hasNotableRiver | River Vyrnwy ⓘ |
| hasOSGridReference | SJ155125 ⓘ |
| hasParishChurch | St Tysilio’s Church, Meifod ⓘ |
| hasPostcodeArea | SY ⓘ |
| hasPostcodeDistrict | SY22 ⓘ |
| hasPostTown |
MEIFOD
ⓘ
linked to:
Meifod
|
| hasPrimaryLanguage |
English
ⓘ
Welsh ⓘ |
| hasReligiousDenomination | Church in Wales ⓘ |
| hasTraditionalCounty | Montgomeryshire ⓘ |
| hasUnitaryAuthority | Powys ⓘ |
| isLocatedNorthOf | Newtown, Powys ⓘ |
| isLocatedWestOf | Welshpool ⓘ |
| isRuralSettlement | true ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeTerritory | Powys ⓘ |
| locatedInHistoricCounty | Montgomeryshire ⓘ |
| locatedInLieutenancyArea | Powys ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | Mid Wales ⓘ |
| locatedInSovereignState | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| locatedInValley | Vyrnwy valley ⓘ |
| locatedNear | River Vyrnwy ⓘ |
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: Meifod Description of subject: Meifod is a small village in Powys, Wales, situated in a rural valley landscape near the River Vyrnwy.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Meifod