Edinburgh International Book Festival (former main venue)
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The Edinburgh International Book Festival (former main venue) is a major annual literary festival in Edinburgh that brings together authors, thinkers, and readers for talks, debates, and book-related events.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Edinburgh International Book Festival | 1 |
| Edinburgh International Book Festival (former main venue) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4125068 — 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: Edinburgh International Book Festival (former main venue) Context triple: [Charlotte Square, Edinburgh, hasEvent, Edinburgh International Book Festival (former main venue)]
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A.
Edinburgh International Festival
The Edinburgh International Festival is a world-renowned annual performing arts festival in Scotland featuring top-tier theatre, music, opera, and dance from around the globe.
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B.
Henley Literary Festival
Henley Literary Festival is an annual book and ideas festival in Henley-on-Thames, England, featuring talks, readings, and discussions with authors and public figures.
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C.
Cheltenham Literature Festival
The Cheltenham Literature Festival is one of the world’s oldest and most prestigious literary festivals, attracting leading authors, thinkers, and audiences for talks, debates, and readings each year in Cheltenham, England.
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D.
Oxford Literary Festival
The Oxford Literary Festival is an annual celebration of books and ideas that brings together leading authors, thinkers, and readers for talks, debates, and literary events across historic venues in Oxford, England.
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E.
Bath Literature Festival
Bath Literature Festival is an annual literary event in the historic city of Bath that features author talks, readings, and discussions celebrating contemporary writing and ideas.
- 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: Edinburgh International Book Festival (former main venue) Target entity description: The Edinburgh International Book Festival (former main venue) is a major annual literary festival in Edinburgh that brings together authors, thinkers, and readers for talks, debates, and book-related events.
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A.
Edinburgh International Festival
The Edinburgh International Festival is a world-renowned annual performing arts festival in Scotland featuring top-tier theatre, music, opera, and dance from around the globe.
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B.
Henley Literary Festival
Henley Literary Festival is an annual book and ideas festival in Henley-on-Thames, England, featuring talks, readings, and discussions with authors and public figures.
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C.
Cheltenham Literature Festival
The Cheltenham Literature Festival is one of the world’s oldest and most prestigious literary festivals, attracting leading authors, thinkers, and audiences for talks, debates, and readings each year in Cheltenham, England.
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D.
Oxford Literary Festival
The Oxford Literary Festival is an annual celebration of books and ideas that brings together leading authors, thinkers, and readers for talks, debates, and literary events across historic venues in Oxford, England.
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E.
Bath Literature Festival
Bath Literature Festival is an annual literary event in the historic city of Bath that features author talks, readings, and discussions celebrating contemporary writing and ideas.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
annual event
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literary festival ⓘ public square ⓘ |
| audience |
authors
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children ⓘ literary agents ⓘ publishers ⓘ readers ⓘ |
| country |
Scotland
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United Kingdom ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
contemporary literature
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current affairs ⓘ non-fiction ⓘ poetry ⓘ political debate ⓘ |
| formerMainVenue |
Charlotte Square Gardens
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tented village in Charlotte Square Gardens ⓘ |
| frequency | annual ⓘ |
| genre |
book festival
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literary festival ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
bookshops on site
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children’s bookshop ⓘ free events ⓘ signing tents ⓘ ticketed events ⓘ |
| hasMainVenueUntil | Charlotte Square Gardens ⓘ |
| inception | 1983 ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| location |
Edinburgh
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New Town ⓘ
surface form:
New Town, Edinburgh
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| notableFor |
bringing together international authors
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large programme of children’s events ⓘ public literary debate ⓘ |
| organizes |
author talks
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book signings ⓘ children’s events ⓘ debates ⓘ literary workshops ⓘ panel discussions ⓘ |
| partOf |
Edinburgh festivals
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surface form:
Edinburgh Festival
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| region | Lothian ⓘ |
| typicalTimeOfYear | August ⓘ |
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: Edinburgh International Book Festival (former main venue) Description of subject: The Edinburgh International Book Festival (former main venue) is a major annual literary festival in Edinburgh that brings together authors, thinkers, and readers for talks, debates, and book-related events.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Charlotte Square, Edinburgh
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hasEvent
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Edinburgh International Book Festival (former main venue)
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this entity surface form:
Edinburgh International Book Festival