Ettrick Water
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Ettrick Water is a river in the Scottish Borders that flows through the historic Ettrick Forest before joining the River Tweed.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ettrick Water canonical | 10 |
| Ettrick Valley | 1 |
| Ettrick Water valley | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2879587 — 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: Ettrick Water Context triple: [Ettrick Forest, traversedBy, Ettrick Water]
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A.
Moffat Water
Moffat Water is a river in Dumfriesshire, Scotland, that flows through the town of Moffat and its surrounding valley.
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B.
Swilcan Burn
Swilcan Burn is a small stream running through the Old Course at St Andrews in Scotland, famous for its association with the historic Swilcan Bridge and the game of golf.
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C.
Cruick Water
Cruick Water is a small river in Angus, Scotland, that flows through rural farmland before joining the North Esk.
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D.
Murieston Water
Murieston Water is a small river in West Lothian, Scotland, that flows through the Murieston area before joining the River Almond.
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E.
Linlithgow Loch
Linlithgow Loch is a freshwater loch in West Lothian, Scotland, known for its scenic setting beside the historic town of Linlithgow and its importance as a wildlife habitat.
- 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: Ettrick Water Target entity description: Ettrick Water is a river in the Scottish Borders that flows through the historic Ettrick Forest before joining the River Tweed.
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A.
Moffat Water
Moffat Water is a river in Dumfriesshire, Scotland, that flows through the town of Moffat and its surrounding valley.
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B.
Swilcan Burn
Swilcan Burn is a small stream running through the Old Course at St Andrews in Scotland, famous for its association with the historic Swilcan Bridge and the game of golf.
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C.
Cruick Water
Cruick Water is a small river in Angus, Scotland, that flows through rural farmland before joining the North Esk.
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D.
Murieston Water
Murieston Water is a small river in West Lothian, Scotland, that flows through the Murieston area before joining the River Almond.
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E.
Linlithgow Loch
Linlithgow Loch is a freshwater loch in West Lothian, Scotland, known for its scenic setting beside the historic town of Linlithgow and its importance as a wildlife habitat.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | river ⓘ |
| country | Scotland ⓘ |
| drainageBasin | Tweed catchment ⓘ |
| flowsInto | River Tweed ⓘ |
| flowsThrough |
Ettrick Forest
ⓘ
Scottish Borders ⓘ |
| hasMouthLocation | near Selkirk ⓘ |
| hasRightTributary | Yarrow Water ⓘ |
| hasSettlementOnBank |
Ettrick
ⓘ
linked to:
Ettrick, Selkirkshire
Ettrickbridge ⓘ
linked to:
Ettrick, Selkirkshire
Selkirk ⓘ |
| hasSourceRegion |
Ettrick Hills
ⓘ
Southern Uplands ⓘ |
| languageOfName |
Scots
ⓘ
Scottish Gaelic ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Ettrick Forest
ⓘ
Scottish Borders ⓘ Southern Uplands ⓘ historic county of Selkirkshire ⓘ |
| mouthOf | River Tweed ⓘ |
| partOf |
River Tweed basin
ⓘ
linked to:
River Tweed valley
|
| region | Borders ⓘ |
| tributaryOf | River Tweed ⓘ |
| usedFor |
angling
ⓘ
recreation ⓘ |
| watercourseType | tributary 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: Ettrick Water Description of subject: Ettrick Water is a river in the Scottish Borders that flows through the historic Ettrick Forest before joining the River Tweed.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Ettrick Water
linked to: Ettrick Water
subject linked to:
historic county of Selkirkshire