Skye
E172639
Skye is a large, rugged island in Scotland’s Inner Hebrides, known for its dramatic landscapes, Gaelic heritage, and role in Highland history.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Skye canonical | 63 |
| Skye (partly, at times) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1364775 — 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: Skye Context triple: [Highland Clearances, significantPlace, Skye]
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A.
Cowal
Cowal is a peninsula in Argyll and Bute, Scotland, best known for hosting one of the world’s largest and most prestigious Highland games gatherings.
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B.
Scalpay (Skye)
Scalpay (Skye) is a small, rugged island off the east coast of the Isle of Skye in Scotland, known for its dramatic coastline, heather-covered moorland, and relative remoteness.
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C.
Dervaig
Dervaig is a small village on the Isle of Mull in Scotland, known for its picturesque setting, distinctive church, and traditional Hebridean character.
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D.
Mull
Mull is a large island in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland, known for its rugged coastline, wildlife, and the colorful harbor town of Tobermory.
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E.
Burntisland
Burntisland is a coastal town on the north shore of the Firth of Forth in Fife, Scotland, known for its historic harbour, sandy beach, and traditional summer fair.
- 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: Skye Target entity description: Skye is a large, rugged island in Scotland’s Inner Hebrides, known for its dramatic landscapes, Gaelic heritage, and role in Highland history.
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A.
Cowal
Cowal is a peninsula in Argyll and Bute, Scotland, best known for hosting one of the world’s largest and most prestigious Highland games gatherings.
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B.
Scalpay (Skye)
Scalpay (Skye) is a small, rugged island off the east coast of the Isle of Skye in Scotland, known for its dramatic coastline, heather-covered moorland, and relative remoteness.
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C.
Dervaig
Dervaig is a small village on the Isle of Mull in Scotland, known for its picturesque setting, distinctive church, and traditional Hebridean character.
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D.
Mull
Mull is a large island in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland, known for its rugged coastline, wildlife, and the colorful harbor town of Tobermory.
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E.
Burntisland
Burntisland is a coastal town on the north shore of the Firth of Forth in Fife, Scotland, known for its historic harbour, sandy beach, and traditional summer fair.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Skye Description of subject: Skye is a large, rugged island in Scotland’s Inner Hebrides, known for its dramatic landscapes, Gaelic heritage, and role in Highland history.
Referenced by (64)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
clan MacDonald
subject linked to:
Long Island
subject linked to:
Kilmore
subject linked to:
northwest Scotland