Royal William Yard
E342895
Royal William Yard is a historic 19th-century former Royal Navy victualling yard in Plymouth, England, now redeveloped into a waterfront complex of apartments, restaurants, and cultural spaces.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Royal William Yard canonical | 10 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3261881 — 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: Royal William Yard Context triple: [Plymouth Sound, near, Royal William Yard]
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A.
Royal Dockyards
The Royal Dockyards were major British naval shipbuilding and repair facilities that formed the industrial backbone of the Royal Navy during the age of sail and early steam power.
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B.
Woolwich Dockyard
Woolwich Dockyard was a major Royal Navy shipbuilding and repair yard on the River Thames in London, historically significant for constructing many prominent warships.
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C.
Royal Dockyard, Deptford
Royal Dockyard, Deptford was a major English naval shipbuilding and repair yard on the River Thames in London, historically significant as one of the principal dockyards of the Royal Navy.
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D.
Chatham Dockyard
Chatham Dockyard was a major Royal Navy shipbuilding and repair yard on the River Medway in Kent, England, historically significant for constructing and maintaining many prominent warships.
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E.
Royal Seaforth Dock
Royal Seaforth Dock is a major deep-water container and cargo terminal within the Port of Liverpool on the River Mersey in England.
- 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: Royal William Yard Target entity description: Royal William Yard is a historic 19th-century former Royal Navy victualling yard in Plymouth, England, now redeveloped into a waterfront complex of apartments, restaurants, and cultural spaces.
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A.
Royal Dockyards
The Royal Dockyards were major British naval shipbuilding and repair facilities that formed the industrial backbone of the Royal Navy during the age of sail and early steam power.
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B.
Woolwich Dockyard
Woolwich Dockyard was a major Royal Navy shipbuilding and repair yard on the River Thames in London, historically significant for constructing many prominent warships.
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C.
Royal Dockyard, Deptford
Royal Dockyard, Deptford was a major English naval shipbuilding and repair yard on the River Thames in London, historically significant as one of the principal dockyards of the Royal Navy.
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D.
Chatham Dockyard
Chatham Dockyard was a major Royal Navy shipbuilding and repair yard on the River Medway in Kent, England, historically significant for constructing and maintaining many prominent warships.
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E.
Royal Seaforth Dock
Royal Seaforth Dock is a major deep-water container and cargo terminal within the Port of Liverpool on the River Mersey in England.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
former victualling yard
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historic site ⓘ mixed-use development ⓘ waterfront complex ⓘ |
| architect |
Sir John Rennie
ⓘ
linked to:
John Rennie the Younger
|
| constructionEndDate | 1835 ⓘ |
| constructionStartDate | 1826 ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| hasAccess | ferry service to Plymouth Barbican ⓘ |
| hasAmenity |
bars
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galleries ⓘ marina berths ⓘ public square ⓘ restaurants ⓘ |
| hasPart |
The Brewhouse
ⓘ
The Clarence ⓘ The Cooperage ⓘ The Guardhouse ⓘ The Melville building ⓘ The Mills Bakery ⓘ The Royal William Yard Basin ⓘ The Slaughterhouse ⓘ |
| hasUse |
commercial
ⓘ
cultural ⓘ leisure ⓘ residential ⓘ |
| heritageDesignation |
Grade I listed building
ⓘ
conservation area ⓘ |
| inception | 1820s ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
England
ⓘ
Plymouth ⓘ Plymouth, Devon ⓘ
linked to:
Plymouth, England
South West England ⓘ
linked to:
southwest England
Stonehouse, Plymouth ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Plymouth Sound ⓘ |
| militaryBranchServed | Royal Navy ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
King William IV
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linked to:
William IV
|
| operator | Royal Navy ⓘ |
| originalFunction |
Royal Navy victualling yard
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linked to:
Royal Navy shore establishments
food and drink storage for Royal Navy ⓘ naval supply depot ⓘ |
| ownedBy | Urban Splash ⓘ |
| redevelopedAs |
cafés
ⓘ
cultural spaces ⓘ offices ⓘ residential apartments ⓘ restaurants ⓘ |
| significantEvent |
closure as a naval victualling yard in the 20th century
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redevelopment in the late 20th and early 21st century ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Royal William Yard Description of subject: Royal William Yard is a historic 19th-century former Royal Navy victualling yard in Plymouth, England, now redeveloped into a waterfront complex of apartments, restaurants, and cultural spaces.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.