Gobowen
E149216
Gobowen is a village in Shropshire, England, known as a local transport hub with a railway station serving nearby towns and the Welsh border region.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Gobowen canonical | 7 |
| Gobowen village | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1305760 — 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: Gobowen Context triple: [Marches Line, passesThrough, Gobowen]
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A.
Godalming
Godalming is a historic market town in southeast England known for its picturesque streets, riverside setting, and role as a commuter hub for London.
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B.
Berriew
Berriew is a picturesque village in Powys, Wales, known for its historic architecture and scenic location near the River Severn.
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C.
Rothbury
Rothbury is a historic market town and civil parish in Northumberland, England, situated on the River Coquet and known as a gateway to the Northumberland National Park.
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D.
Emneth
Emneth is a rural village and civil parish in Norfolk, England, situated near the Cambridgeshire border in the Fens.
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E.
Shanklin
Shanklin is a popular seaside resort town on the Isle of Wight in England, known for its sandy beach, Victorian architecture, and scenic coastal walks.
- 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: Gobowen Target entity description: Gobowen is a village in Shropshire, England, known as a local transport hub with a railway station serving nearby towns and the Welsh border region.
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A.
Godalming
Godalming is a historic market town in southeast England known for its picturesque streets, riverside setting, and role as a commuter hub for London.
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B.
Berriew
Berriew is a picturesque village in Powys, Wales, known for its historic architecture and scenic location near the River Severn.
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C.
Rothbury
Rothbury is a historic market town and civil parish in Northumberland, England, situated on the River Coquet and known as a gateway to the Northumberland National Park.
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D.
Emneth
Emneth is a rural village and civil parish in Norfolk, England, situated near the Cambridgeshire border in the Fens.
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E.
Shanklin
Shanklin is a popular seaside resort town on the Isle of Wight in England, known for its sandy beach, Victorian architecture, and scenic coastal walks.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (34)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | village ⓘ |
| ceremonialCounty | Shropshire ⓘ |
| country | England ⓘ |
| distanceToOswestry | approximately 3 miles ⓘ |
| governingBody | Shropshire Council ⓘ |
| hasAmenity |
medical facilities
ⓘ
primary school ⓘ pubs ⓘ shops ⓘ |
| hasCategory |
Railway stations in Shropshire
ⓘ
Villages in Shropshire ⓘ |
| hasDialCode | 01691 ⓘ |
| hasOSGridReference | SJ295335 ⓘ |
| hasPostcodeArea | SY ⓘ |
| hasPostcodeDistrict | SY11 ⓘ |
| hasPostTown | Oswestry ⓘ |
| hasRailwayLine | Shrewsbury–Chester line ⓘ |
| hasTransportFacility | Gobowen railway station ⓘ |
| isPartOf | civil parish of Selattyn and Gobowen ⓘ |
| isServedBy | Gobowen railway station ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Shropshire
ⓘ
United Kingdom ⓘ West Midlands ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Welsh border ⓘ |
| nearestTown | Oswestry ⓘ |
| railServicesTo |
Birmingham
ⓘ
Chester ⓘ
linked to:
City of Chester
Oswestry ⓘ Shrewsbury ⓘ Wrexham ⓘ
linked to:
Wrexham County Borough
|
| region |
West Midlands
ⓘ
linked to:
East Midlands
|
| timeZone | Europe/London ⓘ |
| utcOffset | +00:00 ⓘ |
| utcOffsetDST | +01:00 ⓘ |
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: Gobowen Description of subject: Gobowen is a village in Shropshire, England, known as a local transport hub with a railway station serving nearby towns and the Welsh border region.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.