Stranraer Harbour
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Stranraer Harbour is a coastal port in southwest Scotland that historically served as a key ferry terminal linking Scotland with Northern Ireland.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Stranraer Harbour canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3722934 — 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: Stranraer Harbour Context triple: [Dumfries and Galloway, containsHarbour, Stranraer Harbour]
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A.
Inverkeithing harbour
Inverkeithing harbour is a small coastal port area in Inverkeithing, Fife, Scotland, historically used for local trade, fishing, and maritime activity along the Firth of Forth.
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B.
Kirkcaldy Harbour
Kirkcaldy Harbour is a small historic port on the Firth of Forth in Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland, once important for trade and industry.
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C.
Aberdour harbour
Aberdour harbour is a small historic coastal harbour in the village of Aberdour on the Firth of Forth in Fife, Scotland, used mainly for leisure craft and local fishing.
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D.
Mallaig harbour
Mallaig harbour is a busy fishing and ferry port on the west coast of Scotland, serving as a key gateway to the Small Isles and the Isle of Skye.
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E.
Cramond Harbour
Cramond Harbour is a small historic harbour on the River Almond at the village of Cramond in Edinburgh, Scotland, known for its picturesque setting near Cramond Beach and views over the Firth of Forth.
- 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: Stranraer Harbour Target entity description: Stranraer Harbour is a coastal port in southwest Scotland that historically served as a key ferry terminal linking Scotland with Northern Ireland.
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A.
Inverkeithing harbour
Inverkeithing harbour is a small coastal port area in Inverkeithing, Fife, Scotland, historically used for local trade, fishing, and maritime activity along the Firth of Forth.
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B.
Kirkcaldy Harbour
Kirkcaldy Harbour is a small historic port on the Firth of Forth in Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland, once important for trade and industry.
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C.
Aberdour harbour
Aberdour harbour is a small historic coastal harbour in the village of Aberdour on the Firth of Forth in Fife, Scotland, used mainly for leisure craft and local fishing.
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D.
Mallaig harbour
Mallaig harbour is a busy fishing and ferry port on the west coast of Scotland, serving as a key gateway to the Small Isles and the Isle of Skye.
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E.
Cramond Harbour
Cramond Harbour is a small historic harbour on the River Almond at the village of Cramond in Edinburgh, Scotland, known for its picturesque setting near Cramond Beach and views over the Firth of Forth.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
harbour
ⓘ
port ⓘ |
| adjacentTo | Stranraer railway station ⓘ |
| bodyOfWaterType | sea loch ⓘ |
| connectedTo |
Port of Larne
ⓘ
surface form:
Larne Harbour
Port of Belfast ⓘ |
| coordinateSystem |
Ordnance Survey National Grid
ⓘ
surface form:
Ordnance Survey National Grid (UK)
|
| country | Scotland ⓘ |
| ferryOperationsMovedTo | Cairnryan ⓘ |
| functionAfterFerryClosure | local harbour ⓘ |
| hasEconomicRole |
supporting local fishing industry
ⓘ
supporting local tourism ⓘ |
| hasFacility |
ferry terminal
ⓘ
railway station ⓘ |
| hasNavigationAid | harbour lights ⓘ |
| hasNearbyTown | Stranraer ⓘ |
| historicalImportance | principal Scottish terminal for ferries to Northern Ireland for much of the 20th century ⓘ |
| historicalRole | key ferry terminal between Scotland and Northern Ireland ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Dumfries and Galloway
ⓘ
Stranraer ⓘ southwest Scotland ⓘ |
| locatedInHistoricCounty | Wigtownshire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOn |
Irish Sea
ⓘ
Loch Ryan ⓘ |
| nearbyPort | Cairnryan ⓘ |
| openingDate | 19th century ⓘ |
| partOf | cross-channel transport network between Great Britain and Ireland ⓘ |
| region |
Central Lowlands of Scotland
ⓘ
surface form:
Lowlands of Scotland
|
| servedBy |
British Rail
ⓘ
surface form:
British Rail ferries
Sealink ⓘ Stena Line ⓘ |
| servedPassengerTraffic | yes ⓘ |
| servedRoute |
Stranraer–Belfast ferry route
ⓘ
Larne–Cairnryan ferry route ⓘ
surface form:
Stranraer–Larne ferry route
|
| servedVehicleTraffic | yes ⓘ |
| transportMode |
ferry
ⓘ
rail ⓘ road ⓘ |
| usedAsMajorFerryPortUntil | 2011 ⓘ |
| usedBy |
commercial vessels
ⓘ
fishing boats ⓘ pleasure craft ⓘ |
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: Stranraer Harbour Description of subject: Stranraer Harbour is a coastal port in southwest Scotland that historically served as a key ferry terminal linking Scotland with Northern Ireland.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Dumfries and Galloway