New Cumnock
E1022918
New Cumnock is a small former mining town in East Ayrshire, Scotland, situated in a rural area of the Southern Uplands.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| New Cumnock canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12750956 — 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: New Cumnock Context triple: [Sanquhar, nearbySettlement, New Cumnock]
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A.
Cumnock
Cumnock is a small former mining town in East Ayrshire, Scotland, with a history rooted in coal mining and textile industries.
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B.
Neilston
Neilston is a village in East Renfrewshire, Scotland, situated southwest of Glasgow and known historically for its textile industry and commuter links to the city.
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C.
Girvan
Girvan is a coastal town in South Ayrshire, Scotland, known historically as a fishing port and seaside resort on the Firth of Clyde.
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D.
Kilmarnock
Kilmarnock is a large town in East Ayrshire, Scotland, historically known for its textile and engineering industries and its association with the poet Robert Burns.
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E.
Mauchline
Mauchline is a village in East Ayrshire, Scotland, best known for its close association with the poet Robert Burns, who lived and wrote there.
- 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: New Cumnock Target entity description: New Cumnock is a small former mining town in East Ayrshire, Scotland, situated in a rural area of the Southern Uplands.
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A.
Cumnock
Cumnock is a small former mining town in East Ayrshire, Scotland, with a history rooted in coal mining and textile industries.
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B.
Neilston
Neilston is a village in East Renfrewshire, Scotland, situated southwest of Glasgow and known historically for its textile industry and commuter links to the city.
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C.
Girvan
Girvan is a coastal town in South Ayrshire, Scotland, known historically as a fishing port and seaside resort on the Firth of Clyde.
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D.
Kilmarnock
Kilmarnock is a large town in East Ayrshire, Scotland, historically known for its textile and engineering industries and its association with the poet Robert Burns.
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E.
Mauchline
Mauchline is a village in East Ayrshire, Scotland, best known for its close association with the poet Robert Burns, who lived and wrote there.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
church
ⓘ
civil parish ⓘ former mining town ⓘ primary school ⓘ railway station ⓘ town ⓘ |
| country | Scotland ⓘ |
| governedBy | East Ayrshire Council NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasApproximatePopulationRange | under 3000 inhabitants ⓘ |
| hasCategory |
Mining communities in Scotland
ⓘ
Villages in East Ayrshire ⓘ |
| hasCouncilArea | East Ayrshire Council NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasDialCode | 01290 ⓘ |
| hasEconomicHistory | coal mining decline ⓘ |
| hasHistoricalIndustry |
coal mining
ⓘ
open-cast mining ⓘ |
| hasLanguage |
English
ⓘ
Scots ⓘ |
| hasLieutenancyArea | Ayrshire and Arran NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNearbyFeature |
River Nith valley
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Southern Uplands hills NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNearbySettlement |
Kirkconnel
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Muirkirk NERFINISHED ⓘ Sanquhar NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasOSGridReference | NS 615135 ⓘ |
| hasParish | New Cumnock parish ⓘ |
| hasPostcodeArea | KA ⓘ |
| hasPostcodeDistrict | KA18 ⓘ |
| hasPostTown | Cumnock NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPrimarySchool | New Cumnock Primary School NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRailLine | Glasgow South Western Line NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRegion | Lowlands of Scotland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasReligiousBuilding | New Cumnock Parish Church NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRoadAccessVia | A76 road NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTraditionalCounty | Ayrshire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTransport | New Cumnock railway station NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasType | rural settlement ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
East Ayrshire
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Southern Uplands NERFINISHED ⓘ rural area ⓘ south-west Scotland ⓘ |
| locatedOn | River Nith NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| near |
Cumnock
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Dumfries and Galloway border NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Ayrshire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| passesThrough | New Cumnock NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| serves | New Cumnock NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: New Cumnock Description of subject: New Cumnock is a small former mining town in East Ayrshire, Scotland, situated in a rural area of the Southern Uplands.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.