Wedmore
E520611
Wedmore is a village in Somerset, England, historically notable as the site where King Alfred the Great and Viking leader Guthrum agreed to terms that helped establish the Danelaw.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Wedmore canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5441189 — 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: Wedmore Context triple: [Treaty of Wedmore, location, Wedmore]
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A.
Rodmell
Rodmell is a small village in East Sussex, England, best known for its association with the writers Leonard and Virginia Woolf.
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B.
Ilchester Mead
Ilchester Mead is a notable meadowland area associated with the town of Ilchester in Somerset, England, known for its historic rural landscape.
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C.
Swinbrook
Swinbrook is a small, picturesque village in rural Oxfordshire, England, known for its traditional stone cottages and historic church.
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D.
Balderstone
Balderstone is a district and residential area within the Balderstone and Kirkholt ward of Rochdale in Greater Manchester, England.
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E.
Grosmont
Grosmont is a small village in North Yorkshire, England, known for its heritage railway station on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway and its scenic moorland surroundings.
- 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: Wedmore Target entity description: Wedmore is a village in Somerset, England, historically notable as the site where King Alfred the Great and Viking leader Guthrum agreed to terms that helped establish the Danelaw.
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A.
Rodmell
Rodmell is a small village in East Sussex, England, best known for its association with the writers Leonard and Virginia Woolf.
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B.
Ilchester Mead
Ilchester Mead is a notable meadowland area associated with the town of Ilchester in Somerset, England, known for its historic rural landscape.
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C.
Swinbrook
Swinbrook is a small, picturesque village in rural Oxfordshire, England, known for its traditional stone cottages and historic church.
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D.
Balderstone
Balderstone is a district and residential area within the Balderstone and Kirkholt ward of Rochdale in Greater Manchester, England.
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E.
Grosmont
Grosmont is a small village in North Yorkshire, England, known for its heritage railway station on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway and its scenic moorland surroundings.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (34)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
civil parish
ⓘ
village ⓘ |
| associatedEvent | Treaty of Wedmore ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Alfred the Great
ⓘ
linked to:
King Alfred the Great
Danelaw ⓘ Guthrum ⓘ |
| ceremonialCounty | Somerset ⓘ |
| country | England ⓘ |
| governingBody | Wedmore Parish Council ⓘ |
| hasAmenity |
post office
ⓘ
primary school ⓘ pubs ⓘ shops ⓘ village hall ⓘ |
| hasCategory |
Alfred the Great
ⓘ
linked to:
King Alfred the Great
Civil parishes in Somerset ⓘ History of the Danelaw ⓘ
linked to:
Danelaw
Villages in Somerset ⓘ |
| hasDialCode | 01934 ⓘ |
| hasHistoricalSignificance | Site of agreement between Alfred the Great and Guthrum ⓘ |
| hasPostcodeDistrict | BS28 ⓘ |
| hasPostTown | Wedmore ⓘ |
| hasReligiousBuilding | Church of St Mary ⓘ |
| historicCounty | Somerset ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Isle of Wedmore
ⓘ
Mendip Hills ⓘ Sedgemoor district ⓘ
linked to:
Sedgemoor
Somerset ⓘ South West England ⓘ
linked to:
southwest England
|
| locatedNear |
Axbridge
ⓘ
Cheddar ⓘ
linked to:
Cheddar cheese
Glastonbury ⓘ |
| region | Somerset Levels ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfKeyEvent | 9th century ⓘ |
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: Wedmore Description of subject: Wedmore is a village in Somerset, England, historically notable as the site where King Alfred the Great and Viking leader Guthrum agreed to terms that helped establish the Danelaw.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.