River Irvine
E166984
River Irvine is a river in southwest Scotland that flows through East Ayrshire, including the town of Kilmarnock, before reaching the Firth of Clyde.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| River Irvine canonical | 16 |
| River Irvine valley | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1225229 — 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: River Irvine Context triple: [Kilmarnock, hasRiver, River Irvine]
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A.
River Almond
The River Almond is a river in central Scotland that flows through West Lothian and the outskirts of Edinburgh before reaching the Firth of Forth.
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B.
River Sheaf
River Sheaf is a small urban river in South Yorkshire, England, that flows through Sheffield and gives the city its name.
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C.
River Leith
River Leith is a watercourse in Edinburgh, Scotland, that flows through the city to the historic Port of Leith on the Firth of Forth.
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D.
River Teviot
River Teviot is a major river in the Scottish Borders, known for flowing through Hawick and contributing significantly to the River Tweed catchment.
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E.
River Tay
The River Tay is the longest river in Scotland, renowned for its salmon fishing and its broad, powerful flow through the Scottish Highlands and Lowlands before reaching the North Sea.
- 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: River Irvine Target entity description: River Irvine is a river in southwest Scotland that flows through East Ayrshire, including the town of Kilmarnock, before reaching the Firth of Clyde.
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A.
River Almond
The River Almond is a river in central Scotland that flows through West Lothian and the outskirts of Edinburgh before reaching the Firth of Forth.
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B.
River Sheaf
River Sheaf is a small urban river in South Yorkshire, England, that flows through Sheffield and gives the city its name.
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C.
River Leith
River Leith is a watercourse in Edinburgh, Scotland, that flows through the city to the historic Port of Leith on the Firth of Forth.
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D.
River Teviot
River Teviot is a major river in the Scottish Borders, known for flowing through Hawick and contributing significantly to the River Tweed catchment.
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E.
River Tay
The River Tay is the longest river in Scotland, renowned for its salmon fishing and its broad, powerful flow through the Scottish Highlands and Lowlands before reaching the North Sea.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | river ⓘ |
| country |
Scotland
ⓘ
United Kingdom ⓘ |
| flowsInto | Firth of Clyde ⓘ |
| flowsThrough |
Darvel
ⓘ
Galston ⓘ
linked to:
Stewarton
Irvine ⓘ Kilmarnock ⓘ Newmilns ⓘ |
| hasBasinCountry |
Scotland
ⓘ
United Kingdom ⓘ |
| hasName | River Irvine ⓘ |
| hasNearbySettlement |
Darvel
ⓘ
Galston ⓘ
linked to:
Stewarton
Irvine ⓘ Kilmarnock ⓘ Newmilns ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
East Ayrshire
ⓘ
East Ayrshire council area ⓘ
linked to:
East Ayrshire Council area
North Ayrshire council area ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ southwest Scotland ⓘ |
| mouth | Firth of Clyde ⓘ |
| partOf | Ayrshire river system ⓘ |
| region | Ayrshire ⓘ |
| tributaryOf | Firth of Clyde ⓘ |
| usedFor |
angling
ⓘ
recreation ⓘ |
| watercourseType | freshwater river ⓘ |
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: River Irvine Description of subject: River Irvine is a river in southwest Scotland that flows through East Ayrshire, including the town of Kilmarnock, before reaching the Firth of Clyde.
Referenced by (17)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: River Irvine