Shannon Harbour
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Shannon Harbour is a small Irish village in County Offaly situated at the junction of the Grand Canal and the River Shannon, historically important as a canal transport hub.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Shannon Harbour canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6449425 — 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: Shannon Harbour Context triple: [Grand Canal (Ireland), endPoint, Shannon Harbour]
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Forster Harbour
Forster Harbour is a coastal marina and waterfront area in the twin towns of Forster-Tuncurry on the Mid North Coast of New South Wales, Australia, serving as a hub for boating, fishing, and tourism.
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B.
Cockburn Harbour
Cockburn Harbour is the main town and commercial center on South Caicos in the Turks and Caicos Islands, known historically for its salt industry and sheltered natural harbor.
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C.
Dunbar Harbour
Dunbar Harbour is a historic fishing and leisure port on the North Sea coast of East Lothian, Scotland, known for its rugged scenery and maritime heritage.
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D.
Homer Harbor
Homer Harbor is a major small-boat and fishing port in the town of Homer, Alaska, serving as a key gateway for marine traffic in the Cook Inlet and Kachemak Bay region.
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E.
Lembar Harbour
Lembar Harbour is the main seaport on the island of Lombok in Indonesia, serving as a key gateway for passenger and cargo traffic to and from nearby islands such as Bali.
- 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: Shannon Harbour Target entity description: Shannon Harbour is a small Irish village in County Offaly situated at the junction of the Grand Canal and the River Shannon, historically important as a canal transport hub.
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A.
Forster Harbour
Forster Harbour is a coastal marina and waterfront area in the twin towns of Forster-Tuncurry on the Mid North Coast of New South Wales, Australia, serving as a hub for boating, fishing, and tourism.
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B.
Cockburn Harbour
Cockburn Harbour is the main town and commercial center on South Caicos in the Turks and Caicos Islands, known historically for its salt industry and sheltered natural harbor.
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C.
Dunbar Harbour
Dunbar Harbour is a historic fishing and leisure port on the North Sea coast of East Lothian, Scotland, known for its rugged scenery and maritime heritage.
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D.
Homer Harbor
Homer Harbor is a major small-boat and fishing port in the town of Homer, Alaska, serving as a key gateway for marine traffic in the Cook Inlet and Kachemak Bay region.
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E.
Lembar Harbour
Lembar Harbour is the main seaport on the island of Lombok in Indonesia, serving as a key gateway for passenger and cargo traffic to and from nearby islands such as Bali.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
settlement
ⓘ
village ⓘ |
| administrativeCounty | Offaly County Council ⓘ |
| country | Ireland ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
bridge over Grand Canal
ⓘ
canal locks ⓘ harbour ⓘ junction basin ⓘ moorings ⓘ |
| hasFunction | canal transport hub ⓘ |
| hasHeritage | Irish inland waterways heritage ⓘ |
| hasNameOrigin | named after River Shannon ⓘ |
| hasNearbyTown |
Banagher
ⓘ
Ferbane ⓘ |
| historicalSignificance | important canal transport hub ⓘ |
| locatedAtJunctionOf |
Grand Canal
ⓘ
River Shannon ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
County Offaly
ⓘ
Leinster ⓘ |
| locatedOn |
Grand Canal
ⓘ
River Shannon ⓘ |
| region |
midlands of Ireland
ⓘ
linked to:
Central Plain of Ireland
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| servedByWaterway |
Grand Canal
ⓘ
River Shannon ⓘ |
| transportHistory | former commercial canal port ⓘ |
| transportType | inland water transport ⓘ |
| usedFor |
angling
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boating ⓘ recreational cruising ⓘ |
| waterwayJunction | Grand Canal–River Shannon junction ⓘ |
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: Shannon Harbour Description of subject: Shannon Harbour is a small Irish village in County Offaly situated at the junction of the Grand Canal and the River Shannon, historically important as a canal transport hub.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.