Faringdon
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Faringdon is a historic market town in Oxfordshire, England, known for its medieval church, traditional market square, and nearby Faringdon Folly tower.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Faringdon canonical | 18 |
| FARINGDON | 1 |
| Faringdon Market Place | 1 |
| National School in Faringdon | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1898274 — 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: Faringdon Context triple: [Vale of White Horse, containsSettlement, Faringdon]
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A.
Stonesfield
Stonesfield is a rural village in Oxfordshire, England, known historically for its Cotswold stone quarries and scenic countryside setting.
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B.
Fairford
Fairford is a small market town in Gloucestershire, England, known for its historic wool church and proximity to RAF Fairford airbase.
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C.
Widford
Widford is a small rural village in Oxfordshire, England, known for its historic church and picturesque countryside setting.
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D.
Widford
Widford is a small village and civil parish in East Hertfordshire, England, known for its rural character and historic parish church.
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E.
Hertingfordbury
Hertingfordbury is a small historic village and civil parish in Hertfordshire, England, known for its rural character and traditional English countryside setting.
- 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: Faringdon Target entity description: Faringdon is a historic market town in Oxfordshire, England, known for its medieval church, traditional market square, and nearby Faringdon Folly tower.
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A.
Stonesfield
Stonesfield is a rural village in Oxfordshire, England, known historically for its Cotswold stone quarries and scenic countryside setting.
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B.
Fairford
Fairford is a small market town in Gloucestershire, England, known for its historic wool church and proximity to RAF Fairford airbase.
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C.
Widford
Widford is a small rural village in Oxfordshire, England, known for its historic church and picturesque countryside setting.
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D.
Widford
Widford is a small village and civil parish in East Hertfordshire, England, known for its rural character and historic parish church.
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E.
Hertingfordbury
Hertingfordbury is a small historic village and civil parish in Hertfordshire, England, known for its rural character and traditional English countryside setting.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
civil parish
ⓘ
folly tower ⓘ market square ⓘ market town ⓘ parish church ⓘ |
| administrativeCentreOf |
Vale of White Horse District
ⓘ
surface form:
Vale of White Horse (historically, before Abingdon)
|
| country |
England
ⓘ
England ⓘ |
| distanceToOxford | approximately 18 miles ⓘ |
| distanceToSwindon | approximately 12 miles ⓘ |
| grantedMarketCharter | 13th century ⓘ |
| hasCategory |
civil parishes in Oxfordshire
ⓘ
market towns in Oxfordshire ⓘ towns in Oxfordshire ⓘ |
| hasConstituency | Wantage (UK Parliament constituency) ⓘ |
| hasDialCode | 01367 ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
medieval parish church
ⓘ
traditional market square ⓘ |
| hasLandmark | Faringdon Folly ⓘ |
| hasLieutenancyArea | Oxfordshire ⓘ |
| hasMarketSquare |
Faringdon
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Faringdon Market Place
|
| hasNearbyFeature |
Cotswolds
ⓘ
surface form:
Cotswolds (area of outstanding natural beauty)
Thames ⓘ
surface form:
River Thames
|
| hasOSGridReference | SU2895 ⓘ |
| hasParishChurch | All Saints’ Church, Faringdon ⓘ |
| hasPostcodeDistrict | SN7 ⓘ |
| hasPostTown |
Faringdon
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
FARINGDON
|
| hasRegion | South East England ⓘ |
| hasSettlementType | town ⓘ |
| hasTransport |
bus services to Oxford
ⓘ
bus services to Swindon ⓘ |
| historicCounty | Berkshire ⓘ |
| isKnownFor |
Faringdon Folly
ⓘ
historic market ⓘ medieval church ⓘ |
| isPartOf | Vale of White Horse ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Faringdon
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
Faringdon self-linksurface differs ⓘ Faringdon self-linksurface differs ⓘ Oxfordshire ⓘ Oxfordshire ⓘ South East England ⓘ Vale of White Horse District ⓘ
surface form:
Vale of White Horse district
|
| timeZone | GMT ⓘ |
| timeZoneDST | BST ⓘ |
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: Faringdon Description of subject: Faringdon is a historic market town in Oxfordshire, England, known for its medieval church, traditional market square, and nearby Faringdon Folly tower.
Referenced by (21)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
National School in Faringdon
this entity surface form:
FARINGDON
subject surface form:
All Saints’ Church, Faringdon
this entity surface form:
Faringdon Market Place
subject surface form:
Faringdon Market Place
subject surface form:
Wantage