CB
E441048
CB is a UK postcode area covering Cambridge and surrounding parts of Cambridgeshire and nearby regions.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4469739 — 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: CB Context triple: [Ely, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom, postcodeArea, CB]
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A.
CB
CB is the post-nominal abbreviation indicating appointment as a Companion of the Order of the Bath, a British order of chivalry.
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B.
CB
CB is the station code used to identify Coimbra-B railway station in Portugal’s rail network.
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C.
BC
BC is the Canadian province of British Columbia, located on the west coast of Canada with Vancouver as its largest city.
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D.
BC
BC is a private Jesuit research university located in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, known for its strong liberal arts programs and competitive NCAA Division I athletics.
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E.
BC
BC is the commonly used abbreviation for Brooklyn College, a senior college of the City University of New York located in Brooklyn.
- 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: CB Target entity description: CB is a UK postcode area covering Cambridge and surrounding parts of Cambridgeshire and nearby regions.
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A.
CB
CB is the post-nominal abbreviation indicating appointment as a Companion of the Order of the Bath, a British order of chivalry.
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B.
CB
CB is the station code used to identify Coimbra-B railway station in Portugal’s rail network.
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C.
BC
BC is the Canadian province of British Columbia, located on the west coast of Canada with Vancouver as its largest city.
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D.
BC
BC is a private Jesuit research university located in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, known for its strong liberal arts programs and competitive NCAA Division I athletics.
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E.
BC
BC is the commonly used abbreviation for Brooklyn College, a senior college of the City University of New York located in Brooklyn.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
UK postcode area
ⓘ
postcode area ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| coversCity |
Cambridge
ⓘ
linked to:
CAMBRIDGE
|
| coversCounty |
Cambridgeshire
ⓘ
linked to:
Cambridgeshire, England
|
| coversRegion | East of England ⓘ |
| hasOutwardCodePrefix | CB ⓘ |
| hasPostcodeDistrict |
CB1
ⓘ
CB10 ⓘ CB11 ⓘ CB2 ⓘ CB21 ⓘ CB22 ⓘ CB23 ⓘ CB24 ⓘ CB25 ⓘ CB3 ⓘ CB4 ⓘ CB5 ⓘ CB6 ⓘ CB7 ⓘ CB8 ⓘ CB9 ⓘ |
| locatedIn | England ⓘ |
| namingBasis |
Cambridge
ⓘ
linked to:
CAMBRIDGE
|
| postalAuthority | Royal Mail ⓘ |
| postcodeAreaCode | CB ⓘ |
| primarySortingOffice | Cambridge Mail Centre ⓘ |
| servesCounty |
Cambridgeshire
ⓘ
linked to:
Cambridgeshire, England
Essex ⓘ Hertfordshire ⓘ Suffolk ⓘ |
| servesTown |
Burwell
ⓘ
Cambridge ⓘ
linked to:
CAMBRIDGE
Ely ⓘ Haverhill ⓘ Histon ⓘ Linton ⓘ Littleport ⓘ Newmarket ⓘ Saffron Walden ⓘ Soham ⓘ Waterbeach ⓘ |
| system | UK postcode system ⓘ |
| usedFor |
mail delivery
ⓘ
mail sorting ⓘ |
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: CB Description of subject: CB is a UK postcode area covering Cambridge and surrounding parts of Cambridgeshire and nearby regions.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: CB