York Castle
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York Castle is a historic fortified complex in York, England, long used as a royal stronghold, administrative center, and prison.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| York Castle canonical | 6 |
| York Castle complex | 4 |
| York Castle area | 1 |
| York Castle courthouse | 1 |
| York Castle site on the River Foss | 1 |
| historic York Castle site | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4437188 — 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: York Castle Context triple: [Feargus O'Connor, placeOfDetention, York Castle]
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A.
Oxford Castle
Oxford Castle is a historic Norman medieval castle and former prison in Oxford, England, now partly preserved as a tourist attraction and heritage site.
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Canterbury Castle
Canterbury Castle is a Norman-era stone fortress in Canterbury, Kent, now a historic ruin and one of England’s oldest surviving castles.
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Winchester Castle
Winchester Castle is a historic medieval royal fortress in Winchester, England, long associated with the English monarchy and government.
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D.
Portland Castle
Portland Castle is a 16th-century coastal artillery fort on the Isle of Portland in Dorset, England, built by Henry VIII to defend against French and Spanish invasion.
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E.
Scarborough Castle
Scarborough Castle is a medieval fortress and coastal ruin overlooking the North Sea in the town of Scarborough, England.
- 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: York Castle Target entity description: York Castle is a historic fortified complex in York, England, long used as a royal stronghold, administrative center, and prison.
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A.
Oxford Castle
Oxford Castle is a historic Norman medieval castle and former prison in Oxford, England, now partly preserved as a tourist attraction and heritage site.
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B.
Canterbury Castle
Canterbury Castle is a Norman-era stone fortress in Canterbury, Kent, now a historic ruin and one of England’s oldest surviving castles.
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C.
Winchester Castle
Winchester Castle is a historic medieval royal fortress in Winchester, England, long associated with the English monarchy and government.
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D.
Portland Castle
Portland Castle is a 16th-century coastal artillery fort on the Isle of Portland in Dorset, England, built by Henry VIII to defend against French and Spanish invasion.
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E.
Scarborough Castle
Scarborough Castle is a medieval fortress and coastal ruin overlooking the North Sea in the town of Scarborough, England.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: York Castle Description of subject: York Castle is a historic fortified complex in York, England, long used as a royal stronghold, administrative center, and prison.
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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York Castle Prison buildings (alterations and additions)
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York Castle site on the River Foss
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