Kirkliston
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Kirkliston is a small town and former village in Scotland, situated to the west of Edinburgh and known for its historic parish church and role as a commuter settlement for the capital.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Kirkliston canonical | 9 |
| Kirkliston parish | 3 |
| Kirkliston conservation area | 1 |
| Kirkliston parish (partly) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2403285 — 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: Kirkliston Context triple: [City of Edinburgh council area, contains, Kirkliston]
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A.
Dalkeith
Dalkeith is a historic town in Midlothian, Scotland, known for its market-town heritage and proximity to Edinburgh.
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B.
Penicuik
Penicuik is a small Scottish town situated to the south of Edinburgh, known historically for its paper mills and proximity to the Pentland Hills.
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C.
Innerleithen
Innerleithen is a small Scottish Borders town known for its scenic setting in the Tweed Valley and its historic textile and milling heritage.
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D.
Duddingston
Duddingston is a historic village and suburb in the southeast of Edinburgh, Scotland, known for its picturesque setting by Duddingston Loch and Arthur’s Seat.
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E.
Cardenden
Cardenden is a village in Fife, Scotland, known primarily as a former mining community with a railway station on the local commuter network.
- 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: Kirkliston Target entity description: Kirkliston is a small town and former village in Scotland, situated to the west of Edinburgh and known for its historic parish church and role as a commuter settlement for the capital.
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A.
Dalkeith
Dalkeith is a historic town in Midlothian, Scotland, known for its market-town heritage and proximity to Edinburgh.
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B.
Penicuik
Penicuik is a small Scottish town situated to the south of Edinburgh, known historically for its paper mills and proximity to the Pentland Hills.
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C.
Innerleithen
Innerleithen is a small Scottish Borders town known for its scenic setting in the Tweed Valley and its historic textile and milling heritage.
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D.
Duddingston
Duddingston is a historic village and suburb in the southeast of Edinburgh, Scotland, known for its picturesque setting by Duddingston Loch and Arthur’s Seat.
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E.
Cardenden
Cardenden is a village in Fife, Scotland, known primarily as a former mining community with a railway station on the local commuter network.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
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: Kirkliston Description of subject: Kirkliston is a small town and former village in Scotland, situated to the west of Edinburgh and known for its historic parish church and role as a commuter settlement for the capital.
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Kirkliston
subject linked to:
Kirkliston
linked to: Kirkliston
linked to: Kirkliston
linked to: Kirkliston
West Lothian (historic county of Linlithgowshire)
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hasHistoricParish
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Kirkliston parish (partly)
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linked to: Kirkliston