HM Prison Usk
E113234
HM Prison Usk is a Category C men’s prison in Monmouthshire, Wales, primarily housing vulnerable and sex offenders in a small, Victorian-era facility.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| HM Prison Usk canonical | 1 |
| Usk and Prescoed prison complex | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T964053 — 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: HM Prison Usk Context triple: [Usk, hasPrison, HM Prison Usk]
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A.
HM Prison Maze
HM Prison Maze was a high-security Northern Irish prison notorious for housing paramilitary prisoners during the Troubles and serving as the focal point of the 1981 republican hunger strikes.
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B.
Werl Prison
Werl Prison is a correctional facility in Werl, Germany, historically used by the Allies after World War II to incarcerate high-ranking Nazi war criminals.
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C.
Inverness Jail
Inverness Jail is a county correctional facility in Multnomah County, Oregon, used primarily for housing pretrial detainees and sentenced inmates.
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D.
Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility
Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility is a California state prison located near San Diego that houses medium- to maximum-security inmates, including several high-profile prisoners.
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E.
Wentworth
Wentworth is a historic town in southwestern New South Wales, Australia, located at the confluence of the Murray and Darling rivers and known as a key river port in the 19th century.
- 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: HM Prison Usk Target entity description: HM Prison Usk is a Category C men’s prison in Monmouthshire, Wales, primarily housing vulnerable and sex offenders in a small, Victorian-era facility.
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A.
HM Prison Maze
HM Prison Maze was a high-security Northern Irish prison notorious for housing paramilitary prisoners during the Troubles and serving as the focal point of the 1981 republican hunger strikes.
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B.
Werl Prison
Werl Prison is a correctional facility in Werl, Germany, historically used by the Allies after World War II to incarcerate high-ranking Nazi war criminals.
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C.
Inverness Jail
Inverness Jail is a county correctional facility in Multnomah County, Oregon, used primarily for housing pretrial detainees and sentenced inmates.
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D.
Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility
Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility is a California state prison located near San Diego that houses medium- to maximum-security inmates, including several high-profile prisoners.
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E.
Wentworth
Wentworth is a historic town in southwestern New South Wales, Australia, located at the confluence of the Murray and Darling rivers and known as a key river port in the 19th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Category C prison
ⓘ
men's prison ⓘ prison ⓘ |
| architecturalPeriod | Victorian era ⓘ |
| buildingType | Victorian-era prison ⓘ |
| category | Category C adult male training prison ⓘ |
| categoryFor | training and resettlement ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| designedFor | longer-term prisoners ⓘ |
| genderOfPopulation | male ⓘ |
| governingBody | Ministry of Justice ⓘ |
| hasFacility |
chaplaincy
ⓘ
education programs ⓘ healthcare services ⓘ offending behaviour programs ⓘ workshops ⓘ |
| hasInmateProfile |
low escape risk prisoners
ⓘ
prisoners requiring protection from main population ⓘ |
| hasNeighbour | HMP Prescoed ⓘ |
| hasProgramme |
education and vocational training
ⓘ
sex offender treatment programmes ⓘ |
| hasPurpose |
public protection
ⓘ
rehabilitation of offenders ⓘ resettlement of prisoners ⓘ |
| inmateClassification | adult male prisoners ⓘ |
| isPartOf |
HM Prison Usk
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Usk and Prescoed prison complex
|
| jurisdiction | England and Wales ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Monmouthshire
ⓘ
Usk ⓘ Wales ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Europe/London ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Maryport Street ⓘ |
| managedBy |
HM Prison and Probation Service
ⓘ
surface form:
His Majesty's Prison and Probation Service
|
| near | River Usk ⓘ |
| operatedBy |
HM Prison and Probation Service
ⓘ
surface form:
His Majesty's Prison and Probation Service
|
| ownedBy | Crown Estate ⓘ |
| partOf |
HM Prison and Probation Service
ⓘ
surface form:
HM Prison Service
|
| postcode | NP15 1XP ⓘ |
| primaryInmateType |
sex offenders
ⓘ
vulnerable prisoners ⓘ |
| region | South Wales ⓘ |
| securityCategory | Category C ⓘ |
| securityLevel | medium security ⓘ |
| serves | courts in Wales and England ⓘ |
| status | operational ⓘ |
| supervisedBy | HM Chief Inspector of Prisons ⓘ |
| timeZone | GMT ⓘ |
| timeZoneDST | BST ⓘ |
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: HM Prison Usk Description of subject: HM Prison Usk is a Category C men’s prison in Monmouthshire, Wales, primarily housing vulnerable and sex offenders in a small, Victorian-era facility.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.