Oban
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Oban is a coastal town in western Scotland known as a major ferry port and gateway to the Hebridean islands.
All labels observed (8)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Oban canonical | 73 |
| Oban and Lorn | 2 |
| Oban town centre | 2 |
| town of Oban | 2 |
| Islay–Oban | 1 |
| Oban Ferry Terminal | 1 |
| Oban, Argyll and Bute, Scotland | 1 |
| Oban, Scotland | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T578303 — 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: Oban Context triple: [Coll, connectedTo, Oban]
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A.
Gourock
Gourock is a coastal town and ferry port on the Firth of Clyde in Inverclyde, western Scotland.
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B.
Helensburgh
Helensburgh is a coastal town in Argyll and Bute, Scotland, situated on the north shore of the Firth of Clyde and known for its Victorian architecture and seaside setting.
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C.
Newport-on-Tay
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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D.
Greenock
Greenock is a historic port town and former shipbuilding center on the River Clyde in western Scotland.
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E.
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.
- 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: Oban Target entity description: Oban is a coastal town in western Scotland known as a major ferry port and gateway to the Hebridean islands.
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A.
Gourock
Gourock is a coastal town and ferry port on the Firth of Clyde in Inverclyde, western Scotland.
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B.
Helensburgh
Helensburgh is a coastal town in Argyll and Bute, Scotland, situated on the north shore of the Firth of Clyde and known for its Victorian architecture and seaside setting.
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C.
Newport-on-Tay
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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D.
Greenock
Greenock is a historic port town and former shipbuilding center on the River Clyde in western Scotland.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Oban Description of subject: Oban is a coastal town in western Scotland known as a major ferry port and gateway to the Hebridean islands.
Referenced by (83)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Oban
linked to: Oban
linked to: Oban
linked to: Oban
subject linked to:
West Highland railway line (nearby along western shore)
subject linked to:
West Highland railway line (nearby along western shore)
subject linked to:
council area of Argyll and Bute
linked to: Oban
linked to: Oban