Kirriemuir
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Kirriemuir is a small historic town in eastern Scotland, best known as the birthplace of Peter Pan author J. M. Barrie.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kirriemuir canonical | 44 |
| Kirriemuir, Angus, Scotland | 3 |
| Kirriemuir town centre | 2 |
| town of Kirriemuir | 2 |
| village of Kirriemuir | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T109469 — 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: Kirriemuir Context triple: [Angus, containsSettlement, Kirriemuir]
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A.
Dumfries
Dumfries is a small historic town in Prince William County, Virginia, considered one of the oldest continuously chartered towns in the United States.
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B.
Kirkcaldy
Kirkcaldy is a coastal town on the east coast of Scotland, known historically for its linoleum industry and as one of the largest settlements in Fife.
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C.
Brechin
Brechin is a historic town in eastern Scotland known for its medieval cathedral and one of the few surviving round towers in the country.
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D.
Dunfermline
Dunfermline is a historic Scottish town and former royal capital known for its medieval abbey and rich cultural heritage.
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E.
Arbroath
Arbroath is a coastal town in eastern Scotland, historically known for the Declaration of Arbroath and its traditional smoked haddock, Arbroath smokies.
- 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: Kirriemuir Target entity description: Kirriemuir is a small historic town in eastern Scotland, best known as the birthplace of Peter Pan author J. M. Barrie.
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A.
Dumfries
Dumfries is a small historic town in Prince William County, Virginia, considered one of the oldest continuously chartered towns in the United States.
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B.
Kirkcaldy
Kirkcaldy is a coastal town on the east coast of Scotland, known historically for its linoleum industry and as one of the largest settlements in Fife.
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C.
Brechin
Brechin is a historic town in eastern Scotland known for its medieval cathedral and one of the few surviving round towers in the country.
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D.
Dunfermline
Dunfermline is a historic Scottish town and former royal capital known for its medieval abbey and rich cultural heritage.
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E.
Arbroath
Arbroath is a coastal town in eastern Scotland, historically known for the Declaration of Arbroath and its traditional smoked haddock, Arbroath smokies.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Kirriemuir Description of subject: Kirriemuir is a small historic town in eastern Scotland, best known as the birthplace of Peter Pan author J. M. Barrie.
Referenced by (52)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Kirriemuir
linked to: Kirriemuir
linked to: Kirriemuir
linked to: Kirriemuir
linked to: Kirriemuir
linked to: Kirriemuir
subject linked to:
1st Baronet Barrie
linked to: Kirriemuir
subject linked to:
derived from Scottish Gaelic "An Srath Mòr" meaning "the great valley"
subject linked to:
Lindertis, near Kirriemuir, Angus, Scotland
subject linked to:
Kirriemuir Cemetery, Scotland