Corstorphine
E344354
Corstorphine is a suburban area of Edinburgh, Scotland, known for its residential character, historic village core, and proximity to Edinburgh Zoo.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Corstorphine canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2403292 — 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: Corstorphine Context triple: [City of Edinburgh council area, contains, Corstorphine]
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A.
Johnstone
Johnstone is a small town in the council area of Renfrewshire in western Scotland, known historically for its textile and engineering industries.
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B.
Rothesay
Rothesay is a historic Scottish town on the Isle of Bute, known as a former royal burgh and traditional residence of Scottish monarchs.
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C.
Motherwell
Motherwell is a former industrial town in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, historically known as a major center of the steel industry.
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D.
Galashiels
Galashiels is a town in the Scottish Borders known historically for its textile industry and as a regional commercial and educational hub.
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E.
Strathaven
Strathaven is a historic market town in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, known for its rural surroundings, annual hot air balloon festival, and landmark Strathaven Castle.
- 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: Corstorphine Target entity description: Corstorphine is a suburban area of Edinburgh, Scotland, known for its residential character, historic village core, and proximity to Edinburgh Zoo.
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A.
Johnstone
Johnstone is a small town in the council area of Renfrewshire in western Scotland, known historically for its textile and engineering industries.
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B.
Rothesay
Rothesay is a historic Scottish town on the Isle of Bute, known as a former royal burgh and traditional residence of Scottish monarchs.
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C.
Motherwell
Motherwell is a former industrial town in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, historically known as a major center of the steel industry.
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D.
Galashiels
Galashiels is a town in the Scottish Borders known historically for its textile industry and as a regional commercial and educational hub.
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E.
Strathaven
Strathaven is a historic market town in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, known for its rural surroundings, annual hot air balloon festival, and landmark Strathaven Castle.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
district of Edinburgh
ⓘ
suburb ⓘ |
| category |
Areas of Edinburgh
ⓘ
Villages in Edinburgh (historical) ⓘ |
| country | Scotland ⓘ |
| daylightSavingTimeZone | BST ⓘ |
| governingBody | City of Edinburgh Council ⓘ |
| hasAmenity |
community centres
ⓘ
local shops and services ⓘ primary schools ⓘ secondary schools nearby ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
historic village core
ⓘ
residential area ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
mixture of tenements and villas
ⓘ
public parks and green spaces ⓘ traditional village main street ⓘ |
| hasHistoricStatus | originated as an independent village ⓘ |
| hasLandmark |
Corstorphine Hill
ⓘ
Corstorphine Hill Tower ⓘ Dower House, Corstorphine ⓘ Edinburgh Zoo ⓘ St John’s Church, Corstorphine ⓘ |
| hasReligiousBuilding |
Church of Scotland parish churches
ⓘ
Roman Catholic church ⓘ |
| integratedInto |
City of Edinburgh council area
ⓘ
surface form:
City of Edinburgh urban area
|
| latitudeApprox | 55.94°N ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
City of Edinburgh council area
ⓘ
Scotland ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Edinburgh Zoo ⓘ |
| longitudeApprox | 3.28°W ⓘ |
| mainRoad |
Corstorphine Road
ⓘ
St John’s Road NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nearbyArea |
Clermiston
ⓘ
Drum Brae ⓘ Murrayfield ⓘ Murrayfield Stadium ⓘ Sighthill ⓘ
surface form:
South Gyle
|
| notableFor |
access to Edinburgh Airport via road and tram
ⓘ
proximity to Edinburgh city centre ⓘ |
| partOf | Edinburgh ⓘ |
| postalDistrict | EH12 ⓘ |
| region | Lothian ⓘ |
| timeZone | Europe/London ⓘ |
| transport |
near Edinburgh Gateway railway station
ⓘ
near South Gyle railway station ⓘ served by multiple bus routes into central Edinburgh ⓘ |
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: Corstorphine Description of subject: Corstorphine is a suburban area of Edinburgh, Scotland, known for its residential character, historic village core, and proximity to Edinburgh Zoo.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.