Achill Sound
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Achill Sound is a small village and main gateway to Achill Island in County Mayo, Ireland, known for its bridge connection to the mainland and coastal setting.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Achill Sound canonical | 3 |
| Achill Sound strait | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13153706 — 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: Achill Sound Context triple: [Achill Island, hasSettlement, Achill Sound]
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A.
Bay of Skaill
Bay of Skaill is a coastal bay on the west coast of Orkney’s Mainland, noted for its sandy beach and proximity to the Neolithic village of Skara Brae.
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B.
The Minch
The Minch is a strait off the northwest coast of Scotland that separates the Outer Hebrides from the Scottish mainland and serves as an important shipping and ferry route.
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C.
Oban Bay
Oban Bay is a sheltered coastal inlet on Scotland’s west coast, known as the scenic natural harbor serving the town of Oban and as a gateway to the Inner Hebrides.
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D.
Kenmare Bay
Kenmare Bay is a long, scenic inlet on Ireland’s southwest coast, renowned for its rugged coastline, marine wildlife, and views of the Beara and Iveragh Peninsulas.
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E.
Clew Bay
Clew Bay is a scenic Atlantic ocean bay on the west coast of County Mayo, Ireland, famed for its many small islands and rugged coastal landscape.
- 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: Achill Sound Target entity description: Achill Sound is a small village and main gateway to Achill Island in County Mayo, Ireland, known for its bridge connection to the mainland and coastal setting.
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A.
Bay of Skaill
Bay of Skaill is a coastal bay on the west coast of Orkney’s Mainland, noted for its sandy beach and proximity to the Neolithic village of Skara Brae.
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B.
The Minch
The Minch is a strait off the northwest coast of Scotland that separates the Outer Hebrides from the Scottish mainland and serves as an important shipping and ferry route.
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C.
Oban Bay
Oban Bay is a sheltered coastal inlet on Scotland’s west coast, known as the scenic natural harbor serving the town of Oban and as a gateway to the Inner Hebrides.
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D.
Kenmare Bay
Kenmare Bay is a long, scenic inlet on Ireland’s southwest coast, renowned for its rugged coastline, marine wildlife, and views of the Beara and Iveragh Peninsulas.
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E.
Clew Bay
Clew Bay is a scenic Atlantic ocean bay on the west coast of County Mayo, Ireland, famed for its many small islands and rugged coastal landscape.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
populated place
ⓘ
settlement ⓘ village ⓘ |
| administrativeTerritory | Achill civil parish ⓘ |
| borders |
Achill Sound strait
ⓘ
linked to:
Achill Sound
|
| country | Ireland ⓘ |
| countrySubdivision | Republic of Ireland ⓘ |
| crossesVia | Michael Davitt Bridge ⓘ |
| hasBridgeConnectionTo | Irish mainland ⓘ |
| hasCoastalSetting | Atlantic Ocean ⓘ |
| hasEconomicActivity |
fishing
ⓘ
tourism ⓘ |
| hasFunction | local service centre for Achill Island ⓘ |
| hasGeographicalFeature |
bridge approach to island
ⓘ
coastal village ⓘ |
| hasIrishName | Gob an Choire ⓘ |
| hasTransportRole | primary access point to Achill Island ⓘ |
| isGatewayTo | Achill Island ⓘ |
| isMainGatewaySettlementFor | Achill Island ⓘ |
| isPartOf | Achill Island community ⓘ |
| languageOfIrishName | Irish ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Connacht
ⓘ
County Mayo ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Achill Sound strait
ⓘ
linked to:
Achill Sound
|
| locatedOn |
Achill Island
ⓘ
west coast of Ireland ⓘ |
| regionType | rural coastal area ⓘ |
| roadAccessVia | R319 road ⓘ |
| timeZone | Western European Time ⓘ |
| timeZoneDST | Irish Standard Time ⓘ |
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: Achill Sound Description of subject: Achill Sound is a small village and main gateway to Achill Island in County Mayo, Ireland, known for its bridge connection to the mainland and coastal setting.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Achill Sound
linked to: Achill Sound