Cairnryan
E45371
Cairnryan is a small Scottish coastal village best known as a major ferry port linking Scotland with Northern Ireland across the Irish Sea.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cairnryan canonical | 24 |
| Cairnryan–Larne | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T332915 — 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: Cairnryan Context triple: [Irish Sea, hasMajorPort, Cairnryan]
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A.
Inchgarvie
Inchgarvie is a small rocky island in Scotland’s Firth of Forth, best known for its historic fortifications and its role in supporting the Forth Bridge.
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B.
Inchcolm
Inchcolm is a small Scottish island in the Firth of Forth best known for its well-preserved medieval abbey and historic fortifications.
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C.
St Monans
St Monans is a small historic fishing village on the East Neuk coast of Fife in eastern Scotland, known for its picturesque harbour and traditional cottages.
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D.
Auchinleck
Auchinleck is a Scottish surname most notably associated with British Field Marshal Sir Claude Auchinleck, a prominent commander in the North African campaign of World War II.
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E.
Inchkeith
Inchkeith is a small, historically strategic island in Scotland’s Firth of Forth, known for its former military fortifications and lighthouse.
- 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: Cairnryan Target entity description: Cairnryan is a small Scottish coastal village best known as a major ferry port linking Scotland with Northern Ireland across the Irish Sea.
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A.
Inchgarvie
Inchgarvie is a small rocky island in Scotland’s Firth of Forth, best known for its historic fortifications and its role in supporting the Forth Bridge.
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B.
Inchcolm
Inchcolm is a small Scottish island in the Firth of Forth best known for its well-preserved medieval abbey and historic fortifications.
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C.
St Monans
St Monans is a small historic fishing village on the East Neuk coast of Fife in eastern Scotland, known for its picturesque harbour and traditional cottages.
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D.
Auchinleck
Auchinleck is a Scottish surname most notably associated with British Field Marshal Sir Claude Auchinleck, a prominent commander in the North African campaign of World War II.
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E.
Inchkeith
Inchkeith is a small, historically strategic island in Scotland’s Firth of Forth, known for its former military fortifications and lighthouse.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
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: Cairnryan Description of subject: Cairnryan is a small Scottish coastal village best known as a major ferry port linking Scotland with Northern Ireland across the Irish Sea.
Referenced by (25)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Dumfries and Galloway council area
subject linked to:
Dumfries and Galloway council area
linked to: Cairnryan
subject linked to:
Larne, County Antrim, Ireland