Moy Castle
E357685
Moy Castle is a ruined medieval stronghold on the Isle of Mull in Scotland, long associated with the Scottish Clan Maclean.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Moy Castle canonical | 4 |
| Caisteal Mhic Gille Eathain (Moy Castle) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3438513 — 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: Moy Castle Context triple: [Clan Maclean, historicSeat, Moy Castle]
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A.
Airthrey Castle
Airthrey Castle is a historic 18th-century country house in Stirling, Scotland, now incorporated into the University of Stirling’s campus.
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B.
Dunvegan Castle
Dunvegan Castle is a historic fortress and ancestral seat of the Clan MacLeod, located on the Isle of Skye in Scotland.
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C.
Methven Castle
Methven Castle is a historic Scottish fortress in Perth and Kinross, notable as the place where Queen Margaret Tudor, widow of James IV of Scotland, spent her final days.
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D.
Kinnaird Castle
Kinnaird Castle is a historic Scottish country house in Angus that has long served as the ancestral home of the Earls of Southesk.
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E.
Duart Castle
Duart Castle is a historic medieval stronghold and ancestral seat of the Clan Maclean, dramatically situated on a clifftop overlooking the Sound of Mull in Scotland.
- 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: Moy Castle Target entity description: Moy Castle is a ruined medieval stronghold on the Isle of Mull in Scotland, long associated with the Scottish Clan Maclean.
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A.
Airthrey Castle
Airthrey Castle is a historic 18th-century country house in Stirling, Scotland, now incorporated into the University of Stirling’s campus.
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B.
Dunvegan Castle
Dunvegan Castle is a historic fortress and ancestral seat of the Clan MacLeod, located on the Isle of Skye in Scotland.
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C.
Methven Castle
Methven Castle is a historic Scottish fortress in Perth and Kinross, notable as the place where Queen Margaret Tudor, widow of James IV of Scotland, spent her final days.
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D.
Kinnaird Castle
Kinnaird Castle is a historic Scottish country house in Angus that has long served as the ancestral home of the Earls of Southesk.
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E.
Duart Castle
Duart Castle is a historic medieval stronghold and ancestral seat of the Clan Maclean, dramatically situated on a clifftop overlooking the Sound of Mull in Scotland.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
castle
ⓘ
medieval stronghold ⓘ ruined castle ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Clan Maclean ⓘ |
| category |
Castles in Argyll and Bute
ⓘ
Clan Maclean ⓘ Ruined castles in Scotland ⓘ |
| condition | ruined ⓘ |
| continent | Europe ⓘ |
| country | Scotland ⓘ |
| era | Middle Ages ⓘ |
| hasArchitecturalStyle | medieval ⓘ |
| hasCulturalSignificance | seat of a branch of Clan Maclean ⓘ |
| hasFeature | tower house ⓘ |
| hasMaterial | stone ⓘ |
| hasSurroundings |
coastal landscape
ⓘ
rugged terrain ⓘ |
| heritage | Scottish clan stronghold ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Inner Hebrides
ⓘ
Isle of Mull ⓘ Scotland ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Loch Buie ⓘ |
| locatedOn |
Loch Buie estate
ⓘ
Mull ⓘ |
| partOf | Scottish Highlands and Islands historic sites ⓘ |
| region | Argyll and Bute ⓘ |
| tourism | historic attraction ⓘ |
| usedBy | Clan Maclean ⓘ |
| usedFor |
defence
ⓘ
residence ⓘ |
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: Moy Castle Description of subject: Moy Castle is a ruined medieval stronghold on the Isle of Mull in Scotland, long associated with the Scottish Clan Maclean.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Moy Castle