Dorking
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Dorking is a historic market town in southeast England, known for its scenic setting in the Surrey Hills and its traditional high street, vineyards, and surrounding countryside.
All labels observed (8)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Dorking canonical | 80 |
| Dorking, Surrey, England | 3 |
| Dorking town centre | 2 |
| Dorking Deepdene | 1 |
| Dorking West | 1 |
| Dorking edition | 1 |
| Dorking town | 1 |
| Dorking, St Martin | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T144363 — 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: Dorking Context triple: [Surrey, containsSettlement, Dorking]
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A.
Farnham
Farnham is a historic market town in southern England known for its Georgian streets, medieval castle, and surrounding Surrey countryside.
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B.
Reigate
Reigate is a historic market town in southeast England, situated at the foot of the North Downs and known for its castle ruins, caves, and commuter links to London.
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C.
Camberley
Camberley is a suburban town in southeast England known for its shopping centre, commuter links to London, and proximity to the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst.
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D.
Staines-upon-Thames
Staines-upon-Thames is a riverside town in southeast England situated on the River Thames, known historically as a crossing point into London and now as a commuter and commercial center.
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E.
Weybridge
Weybridge is a suburban town in southeast England known for its affluent residential areas and proximity to the River Thames and major transport links into London.
- 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: Dorking Target entity description: Dorking is a historic market town in southeast England, known for its scenic setting in the Surrey Hills and its traditional high street, vineyards, and surrounding countryside.
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A.
Farnham
Farnham is a historic market town in southern England known for its Georgian streets, medieval castle, and surrounding Surrey countryside.
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B.
Reigate
Reigate is a historic market town in southeast England, situated at the foot of the North Downs and known for its castle ruins, caves, and commuter links to London.
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C.
Camberley
Camberley is a suburban town in southeast England known for its shopping centre, commuter links to London, and proximity to the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst.
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D.
Staines-upon-Thames
Staines-upon-Thames is a riverside town in southeast England situated on the River Thames, known historically as a crossing point into London and now as a commuter and commercial center.
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E.
Weybridge
Weybridge is a suburban town in southeast England known for its affluent residential areas and proximity to the River Thames and major transport links into London.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
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: Dorking Description of subject: Dorking is a historic market town in southeast England, known for its scenic setting in the Surrey Hills and its traditional high street, vineyards, and surrounding countryside.
Referenced by (90)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Dorking
subject linked to:
Cherkley Court, Surrey, England
subject linked to:
Cherkley Court, Surrey, England
linked to: Dorking
subject linked to:
Leatherhead, Surrey, England
subject linked to:
Norbury Park (nearby)
linked to: Dorking
linked to: Dorking
linked to: Dorking
linked to: Dorking
linked to: Dorking