Port William

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Port William is a small coastal village and fishing port in the Machars peninsula of Dumfries and Galloway in southwest Scotland.

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Label	Occurrences
Port William canonical	7

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T15775157 — 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: Port William
Context triple: [Machars, containsSettlement, Port William]

A. Port Alexander
Port Alexander is a small, remote fishing community located on the southeastern coast of Baranof Island in Alaska.
B. Port Hastings
Port Hastings is a small community on Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia, Canada, known as a key transportation hub at the Cape Breton end of the Canso Causeway.
C. Point Roberts
Point Roberts is a small, geographically isolated U.S. community located on a peninsula south of Vancouver, British Columbia, that is accessible by land only through Canada.
D. Port Lions
Port Lions is a small Alutiiq community and fishing village located on Kodiak Island in Alaska.
E. Port Elgin
Port Elgin is a lakeside town in Ontario, Canada, known as a popular beach and cottage destination on the shores of Lake Huron.
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: Port William
Target entity description: Port William is a small coastal village and fishing port in the Machars peninsula of Dumfries and Galloway in southwest Scotland.

A. Port Alexander
Port Alexander is a small, remote fishing community located on the southeastern coast of Baranof Island in Alaska.
B. Port Hastings
Port Hastings is a small community on Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia, Canada, known as a key transportation hub at the Cape Breton end of the Canso Causeway.
C. Point Roberts
Point Roberts is a small, geographically isolated U.S. community located on a peninsula south of Vancouver, British Columbia, that is accessible by land only through Canada.
D. Port Lions
Port Lions is a small Alutiiq community and fishing village located on Kodiak Island in Alaska.
E. Port Elgin
Port Elgin is a lakeside town in Ontario, Canada, known as a popular beach and cottage destination on the shores of Lake Huron.
F. None of above. chosen