Spilsby
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Spilsby is a small market town in Lincolnshire, England, known historically as the birthplace of explorer Sir John Franklin and for serving the surrounding rural agricultural area.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Spilsby canonical | 4 |
| SPILSBY | 2 |
| Spilsby Market Place | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4030472 — 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: Spilsby Context triple: [Borough of East Lindsey, contains, Spilsby]
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A.
Barrowby
Barrowby is a village in Lincolnshire, England, known for its rural character and proximity to the market town of Grantham.
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B.
Barnby
Barnby is a small rural village and civil parish located in the county of Suffolk in eastern England.
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C.
Navenby
Navenby is a historic village and civil parish in Lincolnshire, England, known for its traditional architecture and rural character.
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D.
Stallingborough
Stallingborough is a village and civil parish in North East Lincolnshire, England, known for its rural character and proximity to the Humber Estuary.
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E.
Laceby
Laceby is a village and civil parish in North East Lincolnshire, England, situated near the town of Grimsby.
- 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: Spilsby Target entity description: Spilsby is a small market town in Lincolnshire, England, known historically as the birthplace of explorer Sir John Franklin and for serving the surrounding rural agricultural area.
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A.
Barrowby
Barrowby is a village in Lincolnshire, England, known for its rural character and proximity to the market town of Grantham.
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B.
Barnby
Barnby is a small rural village and civil parish located in the county of Suffolk in eastern England.
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C.
Navenby
Navenby is a historic village and civil parish in Lincolnshire, England, known for its traditional architecture and rural character.
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D.
Stallingborough
Stallingborough is a village and civil parish in North East Lincolnshire, England, known for its rural character and proximity to the Humber Estuary.
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E.
Laceby
Laceby is a village and civil parish in North East Lincolnshire, England, situated near the town of Grimsby.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: Spilsby Description of subject: Spilsby is a small market town in Lincolnshire, England, known historically as the birthplace of explorer Sir John Franklin and for serving the surrounding rural agricultural area.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
SPILSBY
this entity surface form:
Spilsby Market Place
this entity surface form:
SPILSBY
this entity surface form:
Spilsby Market Place