Spilsby, Lincolnshire, England
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Spilsby, Lincolnshire, England is a small market town in the East Lindsey district best known as the birthplace of Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Spilsby, Lincolnshire, England canonical | 2 |
| Spilsby Rural District | 1 |
| Spilsby ward | 1 |
| Spilsby, Lincolnshire (disputed / traditionally given) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3447128 — 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: Spilsby, Lincolnshire, England Context triple: [John Franklin, birthPlace, Spilsby, Lincolnshire, England]
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Herdeby, Lincolnshire, England
Herdeby in Lincolnshire, England, is a historic locality best known as the place where Queen Eleanor of Castile, wife of King Edward I of England, died in 1290.
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Willoughby, Lincolnshire
Willoughby, Lincolnshire is a small rural village in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England, known for its historic parish church and traditional agricultural surroundings.
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Somersby, Lincolnshire, England
Somersby, Lincolnshire, England is a small rural village best known as the birthplace and early home of the Victorian poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
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Brigg, Lincolnshire, England
Brigg, Lincolnshire, England is a small market town in North Lincolnshire known for its historic market, rural surroundings, and traditional English character.
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Buslingthorpe, Lincolnshire, England
Buslingthorpe, Lincolnshire, England is a small rural village in the East Midlands best known as the birthplace of conservative philosopher and writer Roger Scruton.
- 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: Spilsby, Lincolnshire, England Target entity description: Spilsby, Lincolnshire, England is a small market town in the East Lindsey district best known as the birthplace of Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin.
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A.
Herdeby, Lincolnshire, England
Herdeby in Lincolnshire, England, is a historic locality best known as the place where Queen Eleanor of Castile, wife of King Edward I of England, died in 1290.
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B.
Willoughby, Lincolnshire
Willoughby, Lincolnshire is a small rural village in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England, known for its historic parish church and traditional agricultural surroundings.
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C.
Somersby, Lincolnshire, England
Somersby, Lincolnshire, England is a small rural village best known as the birthplace and early home of the Victorian poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
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D.
Brigg, Lincolnshire, England
Brigg, Lincolnshire, England is a small market town in North Lincolnshire known for its historic market, rural surroundings, and traditional English character.
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E.
Buslingthorpe, Lincolnshire, England
Buslingthorpe, Lincolnshire, England is a small rural village in the East Midlands best known as the birthplace of conservative philosopher and writer Roger Scruton.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
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: Spilsby, Lincolnshire, England Description of subject: Spilsby, Lincolnshire, England is a small market town in the East Lindsey district best known as the birthplace of Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Spilsby, Lincolnshire, England
subject linked to:
John
linked to: Spilsby, Lincolnshire, England
Catherine Willoughby, 12th Baroness Willoughby de Eresby
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Spilsby, Lincolnshire (disputed / traditionally given)
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