Meppel
E151750
Meppel is a small historic city and municipality in the southwestern part of the Dutch province of Drenthe, known for its canals and regional transport connections.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Meppel canonical | 50 |
| Meppel city centre | 2 |
| city of Meppel | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1153971 — 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: Meppel Context triple: [Drenthe, hasMunicipality, Meppel]
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A.
Dunkeld
Dunkeld is a historic town in Perth and Kinross, Scotland, known for its picturesque setting on the River Tay and its medieval cathedral.
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B.
Sallands
Sallands is a Dutch Low Saxon dialect spoken in the Salland region of the province of Overijssel in the Netherlands.
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C.
Kirriemuir
Kirriemuir is a small historic town in eastern Scotland, best known as the birthplace of Peter Pan author J. M. Barrie.
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D.
Galashiels
Galashiels is a town in the Scottish Borders known historically for its textile industry and as a regional commercial and educational hub.
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E.
Motherwell
Motherwell is a former industrial town in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, historically known as a major center of the steel industry.
- 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: Meppel Target entity description: Meppel is a small historic city and municipality in the southwestern part of the Dutch province of Drenthe, known for its canals and regional transport connections.
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A.
Dunkeld
Dunkeld is a historic town in Perth and Kinross, Scotland, known for its picturesque setting on the River Tay and its medieval cathedral.
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B.
Sallands
Sallands is a Dutch Low Saxon dialect spoken in the Salland region of the province of Overijssel in the Netherlands.
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C.
Kirriemuir
Kirriemuir is a small historic town in eastern Scotland, best known as the birthplace of Peter Pan author J. M. Barrie.
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D.
Galashiels
Galashiels is a town in the Scottish Borders known historically for its textile industry and as a regional commercial and educational hub.
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E.
Motherwell
Motherwell is a former industrial town in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, historically known as a major center of the steel industry.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Meppel Description of subject: Meppel is a small historic city and municipality in the southwestern part of the Dutch province of Drenthe, known for its canals and regional transport connections.
Referenced by (53)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Drenthe, Netherlands
subject linked to:
municipality of Steenwijkerland
subject linked to:
municipality of Zwartewaterland
linked to: Meppel
linked to: Meppel
linked to: Meppel
subject linked to:
province of Drenthe