Falkirk Steeple
E136904
Falkirk Steeple is a historic clock tower and prominent landmark in the town centre of Falkirk, Scotland.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Falkirk Steeple canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1179061 — 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: Falkirk Steeple Context triple: [Falkirk, hasNearbySite, Falkirk Steeple]
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A.
Kinghorn Parish Church
Kinghorn Parish Church is a historic Church of Scotland parish church serving the coastal town of Kinghorn in Fife, Scotland.
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B.
Thistle Chapel
Thistle Chapel is an ornate, Gothic-style chapel in St Giles’ Cathedral, Edinburgh, serving as the ceremonial home of Scotland’s highest chivalric order, the Order of the Thistle.
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C.
Alloa Tower
Alloa Tower is a medieval Scottish tower house and one of the oldest and largest surviving examples of its kind, located in the town of Alloa in Clackmannanshire.
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D.
Monifieth Parish Church
Monifieth Parish Church is a Church of Scotland congregation serving as the main parish church for the town of Monifieth in Angus, Scotland.
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E.
Forfar Parish Church
Forfar Parish Church is a historic Church of Scotland parish church serving as a prominent religious and architectural landmark in the town of Forfar, Angus, Scotland.
- 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: Falkirk Steeple Target entity description: Falkirk Steeple is a historic clock tower and prominent landmark in the town centre of Falkirk, Scotland.
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A.
Kinghorn Parish Church
Kinghorn Parish Church is a historic Church of Scotland parish church serving the coastal town of Kinghorn in Fife, Scotland.
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B.
Thistle Chapel
Thistle Chapel is an ornate, Gothic-style chapel in St Giles’ Cathedral, Edinburgh, serving as the ceremonial home of Scotland’s highest chivalric order, the Order of the Thistle.
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C.
Alloa Tower
Alloa Tower is a medieval Scottish tower house and one of the oldest and largest surviving examples of its kind, located in the town of Alloa in Clackmannanshire.
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D.
Monifieth Parish Church
Monifieth Parish Church is a Church of Scotland congregation serving as the main parish church for the town of Monifieth in Angus, Scotland.
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E.
Forfar Parish Church
Forfar Parish Church is a historic Church of Scotland parish church serving as a prominent religious and architectural landmark in the town of Forfar, Angus, Scotland.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
clock tower
ⓘ
landmark ⓘ tourist attraction ⓘ |
| architect | David Hamilton ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | Classical architecture ⓘ |
| completionDate | 1814 ⓘ |
| coordinateLocation | 56.001°N 3.785°W ⓘ |
| country |
Scotland
ⓘ
United Kingdom ⓘ |
| hasCategory |
Buildings and structures in Falkirk
ⓘ
Category A listed buildings in Falkirk ⓘ Clock towers in the United Kingdom ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
belfry
ⓘ
clock ⓘ spire ⓘ |
| hasFunction | clock tower ⓘ |
| height | 43 metres ⓘ |
| heritageRegister | Historic Environment Scotland ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | Category A listed building ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Falkirk town centre
ⓘ
linked to:
Falkirk
|
| location | Falkirk ⓘ |
| material | stone ⓘ |
| near | High Street, Falkirk ⓘ |
| ownedBy | Falkirk Council ⓘ |
| partOf | Falkirk townscape ⓘ |
| replaced | earlier steeple destroyed in 1803 ⓘ |
| significance | symbol of Falkirk ⓘ |
| usedFor |
bell tower
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local landmark ⓘ public clock ⓘ |
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: Falkirk Steeple Description of subject: Falkirk Steeple is a historic clock tower and prominent landmark in the town centre of Falkirk, Scotland.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.