Scone
E38439
Scone is a historic Scottish village best known as the traditional coronation site of Scottish kings and the location of the Stone of Scone.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Scone canonical | 36 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T296705 — 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: Scone Context triple: [Scottish royal court, associatedWith, Scone]
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A.
Eccles cake
Eccles cake is a traditional British pastry made of flaky, buttery pastry filled with spiced currants and often enjoyed as a sweet snack or dessert.
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B.
Sandwich
Sandwich is a historic town on Cape Cod in Massachusetts, known as one of the oldest settlements in New England and a popular coastal tourist destination.
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C.
Cailliau
Cailliau is the surname of Robert Cailliau, a Belgian computer scientist known for co-developing the World Wide Web.
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D.
Leatherhead
Leatherhead is a historic market town in the county of Surrey in South East England, situated on the River Mole and serving as a local commercial and commuter hub.
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E.
Bacon
Bacon is a common English surname historically associated with notable figures such as the philosopher and statesman Francis Bacon.
- 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: Scone Target entity description: Scone is a historic Scottish village best known as the traditional coronation site of Scottish kings and the location of the Stone of Scone.
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A.
Eccles cake
Eccles cake is a traditional British pastry made of flaky, buttery pastry filled with spiced currants and often enjoyed as a sweet snack or dessert.
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B.
Sandwich
Sandwich is a historic town on Cape Cod in Massachusetts, known as one of the oldest settlements in New England and a popular coastal tourist destination.
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C.
Cailliau
Cailliau is the surname of Robert Cailliau, a Belgian computer scientist known for co-developing the World Wide Web.
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D.
Leatherhead
Leatherhead is a historic market town in the county of Surrey in South East England, situated on the River Mole and serving as a local commercial and commuter hub.
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E.
Bacon
Bacon is a common English surname historically associated with notable figures such as the philosopher and statesman Francis Bacon.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
historic settlement
ⓘ
village ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Scottish monarchy
ⓘ
linked to:
Scottish crown
Scottish nationhood ⓘ Stone of Scone ⓘ
linked to:
Stone of Destiny
|
| continent | Europe ⓘ |
| country | Scotland ⓘ |
| governingBody |
Perth and Kinross Council
ⓘ
linked to:
Perth and Kinross council area
|
| hasAlternativeName |
Old Scone
ⓘ
linked to:
Scone Abbey
|
| hasHeritage | traditional coronation site of Scottish kings ⓘ |
| hasReligiousSignificance |
important ecclesiastical centre in medieval Scotland
ⓘ
site of medieval abbey ⓘ |
| hasSite | Scone Palace ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | historic royal site ⓘ |
| historicalRole |
ceremonial and political centre of medieval Scotland
ⓘ
coronation site of the Kings of Scots ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Scottish royal coronations
ⓘ
Stone of Scone ⓘ
linked to:
Stone of Destiny
|
| language |
Scots
ⓘ
Scottish Gaelic ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Perth and Kinross
ⓘ
central Scotland ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Perth ⓘ |
| nearbySettlement |
New Scone
ⓘ
linked to:
Scone
|
| nearbyWaterBody | River Tay ⓘ |
| partOf |
historic Kingdom of Scotland
ⓘ
linked to:
Kingdom of Scotland
|
| region | Lowlands ⓘ |
| replacedBy |
New Scone
ⓘ
linked to:
Scone
|
| tourism | popular heritage tourism destination ⓘ |
| traditionalFunction | location of the Stone of Destiny during coronations ⓘ |
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: Scone Description of subject: Scone is a historic Scottish village best known as the traditional coronation site of Scottish kings and the location of the Stone of Scone.
Referenced by (36)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Alexander III
subject linked to:
Alexander III
subject linked to:
Alexander I
subject linked to:
Alexander I