Waterford
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Waterford is a historic port city in southeast Ireland, renowned as the country’s oldest city and for its traditional crystal glassmaking.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Waterford canonical | 24 |
| Waterford city | 2 |
| Waterford City | 1 |
| Waterford, Ireland | 1 |
| city of Waterford | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2368385 — 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: Waterford Context triple: [William Hobson, birthPlace, Waterford]
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A.
Waterford
Waterford is a small town and village in eastern New York State, known as the eastern terminus of the Erie Canal and its historic canal locks.
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B.
Waterford
Waterford is a small incorporated city located in Stanislaus County in California’s Central Valley.
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C.
Dundalk
Dundalk is a large unincorporated community and suburb of Baltimore, Maryland, known for its residential neighborhoods and industrial history along the Patapsco River.
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D.
Cork city
Cork city is a major port and the second-largest city in the Republic of Ireland, known for its rich maritime history, vibrant cultural scene, and role as the commercial and administrative center of County Cork.
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E.
Galway
Galway is a small rural town in Saratoga County, New York, known for its scenic countryside and close-knit community.
- 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: Waterford Target entity description: Waterford is a historic port city in southeast Ireland, renowned as the country’s oldest city and for its traditional crystal glassmaking.
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A.
Waterford
Waterford is a small town and village in eastern New York State, known as the eastern terminus of the Erie Canal and its historic canal locks.
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B.
Waterford
Waterford is a small incorporated city located in Stanislaus County in California’s Central Valley.
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C.
Dundalk
Dundalk is a large unincorporated community and suburb of Baltimore, Maryland, known for its residential neighborhoods and industrial history along the Patapsco River.
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D.
Cork city
Cork city is a major port and the second-largest city in the Republic of Ireland, known for its rich maritime history, vibrant cultural scene, and role as the commercial and administrative center of County Cork.
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E.
Galway
Galway is a small rural town in Saratoga County, New York, known for its scenic countryside and close-knit community.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Waterford Description of subject: Waterford is a historic port city in southeast Ireland, renowned as the country’s oldest city and for its traditional crystal glassmaking.
Referenced by (29)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Richard Mulcahy (as party leader influence, historically associated)
linked to: Waterford
linked to: Waterford
linked to: Waterford
linked to: Waterford
linked to: Waterford
subject linked to:
Gilbert O’Sullivan