Ulsta
E316479
Ulsta is a small settlement on the island of Yell in Shetland, Scotland, known primarily for its ferry terminal linking Yell to the Shetland mainland.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ulsta canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2976864 — 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: Ulsta Context triple: [Yell Sound, connects, Ulsta]
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A.
Bekkestua
Bekkestua is a suburban center in Bærum, Norway, functioning as a local commercial and transport hub just west of Oslo.
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B.
Thamerdal
Thamerdal is a residential neighborhood within the Dutch town of Uithoorn in the province of North Holland.
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C.
Bergshamra
Bergshamra is a residential district in the northern Stockholm urban area of Sweden, known for its proximity to green spaces and good public transport connections.
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D.
Solbo
Solbo is a locality within Botkyrka Municipality in Stockholm County, Sweden.
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E.
Övdalian
Övdalian is a North Germanic language variety spoken in the Älvdalen region of Sweden, noted for preserving many archaic features lost in standard Swedish.
- 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: Ulsta Target entity description: Ulsta is a small settlement on the island of Yell in Shetland, Scotland, known primarily for its ferry terminal linking Yell to the Shetland mainland.
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A.
Bekkestua
Bekkestua is a suburban center in Bærum, Norway, functioning as a local commercial and transport hub just west of Oslo.
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B.
Thamerdal
Thamerdal is a residential neighborhood within the Dutch town of Uithoorn in the province of North Holland.
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C.
Bergshamra
Bergshamra is a residential district in the northern Stockholm urban area of Sweden, known for its proximity to green spaces and good public transport connections.
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D.
Solbo
Solbo is a locality within Botkyrka Municipality in Stockholm County, Sweden.
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E.
Övdalian
Övdalian is a North Germanic language variety spoken in the Älvdalen region of Sweden, noted for preserving many archaic features lost in standard Swedish.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
settlement
ⓘ
village ⓘ |
| administrativeArea | Shetland Islands Council ⓘ |
| country | Scotland ⓘ |
| countrySubdivision | Scotland ⓘ |
| ferryRoute | Ulsta–Toft ferry route ⓘ |
| geographicRegion |
Northern Isles
ⓘ
surface form:
North Isles of Shetland
|
| hasDialCode | 01957 ⓘ |
| hasFerryConnectionTo | Toft ⓘ |
| hasFerryServiceOperator | Shetland Islands Council Ferries ⓘ |
| hasHarbour |
Toft ferry terminal
ⓘ
surface form:
Ulsta ferry terminal
|
| hasPostcodeArea | ZE ⓘ |
| hasPostcodeDistrict | ZE2 ⓘ |
| hasRoadConnection | A968 road NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTransportFacility |
Toft ferry terminal
ⓘ
surface form:
Ulsta ferry terminal
|
| island | Yell ⓘ |
| knownFor | ferry terminal linking Yell to Shetland mainland ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Northern Isles
ⓘ
Shetland ⓘ Shetland ⓘ
surface form:
Shetland Islands
Shetland ⓘ
surface form:
Shetland, Scotland
United Kingdom ⓘ Yell ⓘ |
| locatedOnBodyOfWater | Yell Sound ⓘ |
| nearestLargeSettlement | Lerwick ⓘ |
| partOf | Yell community ⓘ |
| region | Highlands and Islands ⓘ |
| timeZone | UTC±00:00 ⓘ |
| timeZoneDST | UTC+01:00 ⓘ |
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: Ulsta Description of subject: Ulsta is a small settlement on the island of Yell in Shetland, Scotland, known primarily for its ferry terminal linking Yell to the Shetland mainland.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.