Newport-on-Tay
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Newport-on-Tay is a small town in northeast Fife, Scotland, situated on the south bank of the River Tay opposite Dundee.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Newport-on-Tay canonical | 12 |
| Newport-on-Tay civil parish | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T215330 — 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: Newport-on-Tay Context triple: [Fife Coastal Path, endPoint, Newport-on-Tay]
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A.
Aberdour
Aberdour is a coastal village in Fife, Scotland, known for its historic castle, scenic beaches, and role as a commuter stop between Edinburgh and the Fife region.
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B.
Inverkeithing
Inverkeithing is a coastal town in Fife, Scotland, situated near the Forth bridges and functioning as a key commuter hub for the Edinburgh area.
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C.
Kincardine
Kincardine is a small Scottish town on the north shore of the Firth of Forth, known for its historic bridge and industrial heritage.
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D.
Inchkeith
Inchkeith is a small, historically strategic island in Scotland’s Firth of Forth, known for its former military fortifications and lighthouse.
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E.
Crail
Crail is a historic fishing village and popular tourist destination on the East Neuk of Fife in eastern Scotland, known for its picturesque harbour and traditional stone cottages.
- 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: Newport-on-Tay Target entity description: Newport-on-Tay is a small town in northeast Fife, Scotland, situated on the south bank of the River Tay opposite Dundee.
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A.
Aberdour
Aberdour is a coastal village in Fife, Scotland, known for its historic castle, scenic beaches, and role as a commuter stop between Edinburgh and the Fife region.
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B.
Inverkeithing
Inverkeithing is a coastal town in Fife, Scotland, situated near the Forth bridges and functioning as a key commuter hub for the Edinburgh area.
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C.
Kincardine
Kincardine is a small Scottish town on the north shore of the Firth of Forth, known for its historic bridge and industrial heritage.
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D.
Inchkeith
Inchkeith is a small, historically strategic island in Scotland’s Firth of Forth, known for its former military fortifications and lighthouse.
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E.
Crail
Crail is a historic fishing village and popular tourist destination on the East Neuk of Fife in eastern Scotland, known for its picturesque harbour and traditional stone cottages.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
settlement
ⓘ
town ⓘ |
| country |
Scotland
ⓘ
United Kingdom ⓘ |
| hasCategory |
Populated places on the River Tay
ⓘ
Towns in Fife ⓘ |
| hasDialingCode |
+44
ⓘ
01382 ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
commuter town for Dundee
ⓘ
residential community ⓘ views across the River Tay ⓘ |
| hasNearbyCity | Dundee ⓘ |
| hasNeighbouringSettlement |
Tayport
ⓘ
Wormit ⓘ |
| hasPostcodeArea | DD ⓘ |
| hasRiver | River Tay ⓘ |
| hasTransportConnection |
Tay Road Bridge (via nearby access)
ⓘ
linked to:
Tay Road Bridge
|
| locatedIn |
Fife
ⓘ
northeast Fife ⓘ
linked to:
North East Fife
|
| locatedInParliamentaryConstituency |
North East Fife (UK Parliament)
ⓘ
linked to:
North East Fife
|
| locatedInRegion |
east-central Scotland
ⓘ
linked to:
eastern Scotland
|
| locatedInScottishParliamentRegion | Mid Scotland and Fife ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone |
British Summer Time
ⓘ
UTC±00:00 ⓘ |
| locatedOn | south bank of the River Tay ⓘ |
| locatedOpposite | Dundee ⓘ |
| partOf |
Fife council area
ⓘ
linked to:
Kingdom of Fife council area
historic county of Fife ⓘ |
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: Newport-on-Tay Description of subject: Newport-on-Tay is a small town in northeast Fife, Scotland, situated on the south bank of the River Tay opposite Dundee.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.