Newgrange
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Newgrange is a prehistoric Neolithic passage tomb in County Meath, Ireland, renowned for its massive circular mound, megalithic art, and precise alignment with the winter solstice sunrise.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Newgrange canonical | 36 |
| Newgrange passage tomb | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2948356 — 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: Newgrange Context triple: [River Boyne, locatedNear, Newgrange]
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A.
Maeshowe
Maeshowe is a large Neolithic chambered cairn and passage grave in Orkney, Scotland, renowned for its sophisticated construction, winter solstice alignment, and runic Viking graffiti.
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B.
Callanish Stones
The Callanish Stones are a famous Neolithic stone circle and ritual site on the Isle of Lewis in Scotland’s Outer Hebrides, dating back to around 3000 BC.
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C.
Eanna temple complex
The Eanna temple complex was a major religious and ceremonial center in the ancient Sumerian city of Uruk, primarily dedicated to the goddess Inanna and associated with early urban development and monumental architecture.
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D.
Stonehenge
Stonehenge is a prehistoric stone circle monument on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England, renowned as one of the most famous and enigmatic archaeological sites in the world.
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E.
Lligwy Burial Chamber
Lligwy Burial Chamber is a Neolithic stone tomb on the island of Anglesey in Wales, notable for its massive capstone and well-preserved chamber structure.
- 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: Newgrange Target entity description: Newgrange is a prehistoric Neolithic passage tomb in County Meath, Ireland, renowned for its massive circular mound, megalithic art, and precise alignment with the winter solstice sunrise.
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A.
Maeshowe
Maeshowe is a large Neolithic chambered cairn and passage grave in Orkney, Scotland, renowned for its sophisticated construction, winter solstice alignment, and runic Viking graffiti.
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B.
Callanish Stones
The Callanish Stones are a famous Neolithic stone circle and ritual site on the Isle of Lewis in Scotland’s Outer Hebrides, dating back to around 3000 BC.
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C.
Eanna temple complex
The Eanna temple complex was a major religious and ceremonial center in the ancient Sumerian city of Uruk, primarily dedicated to the goddess Inanna and associated with early urban development and monumental architecture.
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D.
Stonehenge
Stonehenge is a prehistoric stone circle monument on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England, renowned as one of the most famous and enigmatic archaeological sites in the world.
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E.
Lligwy Burial Chamber
Lligwy Burial Chamber is a Neolithic stone tomb on the island of Anglesey in Wales, notable for its massive capstone and well-preserved chamber structure.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (58)
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: Newgrange Description of subject: Newgrange is a prehistoric Neolithic passage tomb in County Meath, Ireland, renowned for its massive circular mound, megalithic art, and precise alignment with the winter solstice sunrise.
Referenced by (40)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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