New Town
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New Town is a historic 18th- and 19th-century planned district in Edinburgh, Scotland, renowned for its Georgian architecture and UNESCO World Heritage status.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| New Town, Edinburgh | 43 |
| New Town canonical | 14 |
| Edinburgh New Town | 12 |
| New Town of Edinburgh | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2403296 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: New Town Context triple: [City of Edinburgh council area, contains, New Town]
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New Town
New Town is a rapidly developing planned satellite city near Kolkata in the Indian state of West Bengal, known for its modern infrastructure and IT hubs.
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Broughty Ferry
Broughty Ferry is a coastal suburb of Dundee in eastern Scotland, known for its sandy beach, historic Broughty Castle, and views over the Firth of Tay.
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New Edinburgh
New Edinburgh is a historic, affluent residential neighborhood in Ottawa, Canada, known for its diplomatic residences, proximity to the Governor General’s residence at Rideau Hall, and scenic location near the Rideau and Ottawa Rivers.
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Cumbernauld
Cumbernauld is a post-war new town in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, known for its modernist planning and distinctive, often-criticized town centre architecture.
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West End of Glasgow
The West End of Glasgow is a vibrant, affluent district known for its historic architecture, cultural institutions, trendy cafes, and proximity to the University of Glasgow.
- 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: New Town Target entity description: New Town is a historic 18th- and 19th-century planned district in Edinburgh, Scotland, renowned for its Georgian architecture and UNESCO World Heritage status.
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New Town
New Town is a rapidly developing planned satellite city near Kolkata in the Indian state of West Bengal, known for its modern infrastructure and IT hubs.
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B.
Broughty Ferry
Broughty Ferry is a coastal suburb of Dundee in eastern Scotland, known for its sandy beach, historic Broughty Castle, and views over the Firth of Tay.
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New Edinburgh
New Edinburgh is a historic, affluent residential neighborhood in Ottawa, Canada, known for its diplomatic residences, proximity to the Governor General’s residence at Rideau Hall, and scenic location near the Rideau and Ottawa Rivers.
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Cumbernauld
Cumbernauld is a post-war new town in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, known for its modernist planning and distinctive, often-criticized town centre architecture.
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West End of Glasgow
The West End of Glasgow is a vibrant, affluent district known for its historic architecture, cultural institutions, trendy cafes, and proximity to the University of Glasgow.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: New Town Description of subject: New Town is a historic 18th- and 19th-century planned district in Edinburgh, Scotland, renowned for its Georgian architecture and UNESCO World Heritage status.
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Waverley railway station (nearby)
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George Street (to the north via connecting streets)
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Edinburgh International Book Festival (former main venue)
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