Dunollie
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Dunollie is a historic coastal site in western Scotland best known for Dunollie Castle, the ancestral stronghold of the Clan MacDougall overlooking Oban Bay.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Dunollie canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4418042 — 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: Dunollie Context triple: [MacDougall, associatedWithPlace, Dunollie]
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A.
Kilchoan
Kilchoan is a remote village on the Ardnamurchan peninsula in the Scottish Highlands, known as one of the most westerly settlements on the British mainland and a gateway to the Isle of Mull.
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B.
Ardrishaig
Ardrishaig is a coastal village on the shores of Loch Gilp in Argyll and Bute, Scotland, known historically as a small harbor and gateway to the surrounding lochs and canals.
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C.
Muirdrum
Muirdrum is a small village in the Angus council area of eastern Scotland, situated near the town of Carnoustie.
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D.
Tullibigeal
Tullibigeal is a small rural town in New South Wales, Australia, known for its agricultural community and location within the Riverina region.
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E.
Drumnadrochit
Drumnadrochit is a village on the shores of Loch Ness in the Scottish Highlands, known as a hub for Loch Ness Monster tourism and visits to nearby Urquhart Castle.
- 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: Dunollie Target entity description: Dunollie is a historic coastal site in western Scotland best known for Dunollie Castle, the ancestral stronghold of the Clan MacDougall overlooking Oban Bay.
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A.
Kilchoan
Kilchoan is a remote village on the Ardnamurchan peninsula in the Scottish Highlands, known as one of the most westerly settlements on the British mainland and a gateway to the Isle of Mull.
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B.
Ardrishaig
Ardrishaig is a coastal village on the shores of Loch Gilp in Argyll and Bute, Scotland, known historically as a small harbor and gateway to the surrounding lochs and canals.
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C.
Muirdrum
Muirdrum is a small village in the Angus council area of eastern Scotland, situated near the town of Carnoustie.
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D.
Tullibigeal
Tullibigeal is a small rural town in New South Wales, Australia, known for its agricultural community and location within the Riverina region.
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E.
Drumnadrochit
Drumnadrochit is a village on the shores of Loch Ness in the Scottish Highlands, known as a hub for Loch Ness Monster tourism and visits to nearby Urquhart Castle.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
coastal site
ⓘ
historic site ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Clan MacDougall ⓘ |
| country | Scotland ⓘ |
| culturalAssociation | Gaelic Scotland ⓘ |
| hasArchaeologicalSignificance | true ⓘ |
| hasBuilding | Dunollie Castle ⓘ |
| hasLandmark | ruined castle ⓘ |
| hasLandscapeFeature |
coastal cliffs
ⓘ
rocky promontory ⓘ woodland ⓘ |
| hasMuseumOrCentre | Clan MacDougall centre ⓘ |
| hasPart | Dunollie Castle ⓘ |
| hasRuin | castle ruins ⓘ |
| hasViewOf | Firth of Lorn ⓘ |
| hasWalkingRoutes | coastal paths ⓘ |
| heritageType | medieval stronghold ⓘ |
| heritageUse | public visitor attraction ⓘ |
| historicalClanSeatOf | Clan MacDougall ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | medieval era ⓘ |
| languageHeritage | Scottish Gaelic ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
western Scotland
ⓘ
linked to:
West of Scotland
|
| locatedOn | west coast of Scotland ⓘ |
| near | Oban ⓘ |
| overlooks | Oban Bay ⓘ |
| region | Argyll and Bute ⓘ |
| strategicRole | defence of Oban Bay ⓘ |
| tourismType | heritage tourism ⓘ |
| traditionalTerritoryOf | Clan MacDougall ⓘ |
| usedAs | clan seat ⓘ |
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: Dunollie Description of subject: Dunollie is a historic coastal site in western Scotland best known for Dunollie Castle, the ancestral stronghold of the Clan MacDougall overlooking Oban Bay.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.