Canongate Kirkyard, Edinburgh
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Canongate Kirkyard in Edinburgh is a historic churchyard on the Royal Mile, best known as the burial place of economist and philosopher Adam Smith.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Canongate Kirkyard | 4 |
| Canongate Kirkyard, Edinburgh canonical | 2 |
| Burgh of Canongate | 1 |
| Canongate Kirk, Edinburgh | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T235650 — 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: Canongate Kirkyard, Edinburgh Context triple: [Adam Smith, placeOfBurial, Canongate Kirkyard, Edinburgh]
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A.
St Giles’ Cathedral, Edinburgh
St Giles’ Cathedral in Edinburgh is a historic Church of Scotland landmark on the Royal Mile, renowned as the High Kirk of Edinburgh and noted for its distinctive crown steeple and rich religious and civic heritage.
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B.
St Andrew's House, Edinburgh
St Andrew's House in Edinburgh is a prominent Art Deco government building that serves as the main administrative base of Scotland's devolved government.
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C.
Pittencrieff Park
Pittencrieff Park is a historic public park and green space in Dunfermline, Fife, known for its landscaped gardens, woodland walks, and cultural significance.
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D.
Dunfermline Abbey
Dunfermline Abbey is a historic medieval church and former Benedictine monastery renowned as the burial place of several Scottish kings and queens, including Robert the Bruce.
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E.
Thistle Chapel
Thistle Chapel is an ornate, Gothic-style chapel in St Giles’ Cathedral, Edinburgh, serving as the ceremonial home of Scotland’s highest chivalric order, the Order of the Thistle.
- 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: Canongate Kirkyard, Edinburgh Target entity description: Canongate Kirkyard in Edinburgh is a historic churchyard on the Royal Mile, best known as the burial place of economist and philosopher Adam Smith.
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A.
St Giles’ Cathedral, Edinburgh
St Giles’ Cathedral in Edinburgh is a historic Church of Scotland landmark on the Royal Mile, renowned as the High Kirk of Edinburgh and noted for its distinctive crown steeple and rich religious and civic heritage.
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B.
St Andrew's House, Edinburgh
St Andrew's House in Edinburgh is a prominent Art Deco government building that serves as the main administrative base of Scotland's devolved government.
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C.
Pittencrieff Park
Pittencrieff Park is a historic public park and green space in Dunfermline, Fife, known for its landscaped gardens, woodland walks, and cultural significance.
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D.
Dunfermline Abbey
Dunfermline Abbey is a historic medieval church and former Benedictine monastery renowned as the burial place of several Scottish kings and queens, including Robert the Bruce.
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E.
Thistle Chapel
Thistle Chapel is an ornate, Gothic-style chapel in St Giles’ Cathedral, Edinburgh, serving as the ceremonial home of Scotland’s highest chivalric order, the Order of the Thistle.
- 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: Canongate Kirkyard, Edinburgh Description of subject: Canongate Kirkyard in Edinburgh is a historic churchyard on the Royal Mile, best known as the burial place of economist and philosopher Adam Smith.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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