Spike Island
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Spike Island is a historic island in Cork Harbour, Ireland, best known for its former fortress and prison that played a significant role in the country’s military and penal history.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Spike Island canonical | 10 |
| Spike Island, Bristol | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3689482 — 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: Spike Island Context triple: [County Cork, contains, Spike Island]
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A.
Spike Island
Spike Island is a riverside park and former industrial site in Widnes, England, known for its green spaces, canal-side paths, and views over the River Mersey.
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B.
St Herbert’s Island
St Herbert’s Island is a wooded island in Derwentwater in England’s Lake District, known for its association with the 7th-century hermit St Herbert and its tranquil, scenic setting.
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C.
St. David's Island
St. David's Island is one of Bermuda’s eastern islands, known for hosting the territory’s main air gateway and offering coastal scenery and residential communities.
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D.
Steep Holm
Steep Holm is a small, steep-sided limestone island in the Bristol Channel known for its rich wildlife, historical fortifications, and dramatic coastal cliffs.
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E.
Mount Batten
Mount Batten is a rocky headland and former RAF seaplane base in Plymouth, England, known today for its marina, watersports, and panoramic views over Plymouth Sound.
- 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: Spike Island Target entity description: Spike Island is a historic island in Cork Harbour, Ireland, best known for its former fortress and prison that played a significant role in the country’s military and penal history.
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A.
Spike Island
Spike Island is a riverside park and former industrial site in Widnes, England, known for its green spaces, canal-side paths, and views over the River Mersey.
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B.
St Herbert’s Island
St Herbert’s Island is a wooded island in Derwentwater in England’s Lake District, known for its association with the 7th-century hermit St Herbert and its tranquil, scenic setting.
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C.
St. David's Island
St. David's Island is one of Bermuda’s eastern islands, known for hosting the territory’s main air gateway and offering coastal scenery and residential communities.
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D.
Steep Holm
Steep Holm is a small, steep-sided limestone island in the Bristol Channel known for its rich wildlife, historical fortifications, and dramatic coastal cliffs.
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E.
Mount Batten
Mount Batten is a rocky headland and former RAF seaplane base in Plymouth, England, known today for its marina, watersports, and panoramic views over Plymouth Sound.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
former prison
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historic site ⓘ island ⓘ |
| controlledBy |
Ireland
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Irish Free State ⓘ Kingdom of Great Britain ⓘ United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland ⓘ |
| country | Ireland ⓘ |
| formerName | Fort Westmoreland ⓘ |
| functionedAs |
high-security prison
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prison for juvenile offenders ⓘ prison for political prisoners ⓘ |
| garrisonedBy |
British Army
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Irish Defence Forces ⓘ
linked to:
Defence Forces of Ireland
Royal Navy ⓘ |
| hasFacility | visitor centre ⓘ |
| hasFortress | Fort Mitchel ⓘ |
| hasStructure | star-shaped fort ⓘ |
| heritageTheme |
island community history
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military history ⓘ penal history ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Cork Harbour
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County Cork ⓘ Munster ⓘ |
| locatedInBodyOfWater | Cork Harbour ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Spike Island ⓘ |
| nearCity |
Cobh
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Cork ⓘ
linked to:
Cork city
|
| notableEvent |
mass escape attempt in 1985
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riot in 1985 ⓘ |
| openedToPublicAs | heritage attraction ⓘ |
| partOf | Treaty Ports ⓘ |
| significance |
important in Irish military history
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important in Irish penal history ⓘ |
| tourismAward | Europe’s Leading Tourist Attraction ⓘ |
| tourismAwardBy | World Travel Awards ⓘ |
| transferredTo | Irish Free State in 1938 ⓘ |
| usedAs |
coastal defence fort
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convict depot ⓘ internment camp ⓘ military barracks ⓘ military fortress ⓘ prison ⓘ tourist attraction ⓘ |
| usedDuringConflict |
Irish Civil War
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Irish War of Independence ⓘ Napoleonic Wars ⓘ The Troubles ⓘ World War I ⓘ |
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: Spike Island Description of subject: Spike Island is a historic island in Cork Harbour, Ireland, best known for its former fortress and prison that played a significant role in the country’s military and penal history.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.