Lostwithiel
E52898
Lostwithiel is a historic town and former parliamentary borough in Cornwall, England, known for its medieval architecture and past political significance.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lostwithiel canonical | 21 |
| LOSTWITHIEL | 1 |
| Lostwithiel civil parish | 1 |
| Lostwithiel town centre | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T416884 — 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: Lostwithiel Context triple: [Sir Walter Mildmay, servedInParliamentFor, Lostwithiel]
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A.
Emneth
Emneth is a rural village and civil parish in Norfolk, England, situated near the Cambridgeshire border in the Fens.
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B.
Heysham
Heysham is a coastal village and port in Lancashire, England, known for its ferry services across the Irish Sea and its nearby nuclear power stations.
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C.
Godalming
Godalming is a historic market town in southeast England known for its picturesque streets, riverside setting, and role as a commuter hub for London.
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D.
The Dingle
The Dingle is a formal ornamental garden area within The Quarry park in Shrewsbury, England, known for its landscaped flowerbeds, water features, and seasonal displays.
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E.
Stonehaven
Stonehaven is a coastal town in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, known for its picturesque harbor, historic Dunnottar Castle nearby, and role as a gateway between the Highlands and Lowlands.
- 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: Lostwithiel Target entity description: Lostwithiel is a historic town and former parliamentary borough in Cornwall, England, known for its medieval architecture and past political significance.
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A.
Emneth
Emneth is a rural village and civil parish in Norfolk, England, situated near the Cambridgeshire border in the Fens.
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B.
Heysham
Heysham is a coastal village and port in Lancashire, England, known for its ferry services across the Irish Sea and its nearby nuclear power stations.
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C.
Godalming
Godalming is a historic market town in southeast England known for its picturesque streets, riverside setting, and role as a commuter hub for London.
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D.
The Dingle
The Dingle is a formal ornamental garden area within The Quarry park in Shrewsbury, England, known for its landscaped flowerbeds, water features, and seasonal displays.
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E.
Stonehaven
Stonehaven is a coastal town in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, known for its picturesque harbor, historic Dunnottar Castle nearby, and role as a gateway between the Highlands and Lowlands.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
civil parish
ⓘ
former parliamentary borough ⓘ medieval castle ⓘ parish church ⓘ railway station ⓘ town ⓘ |
| ceremonialCounty | Cornwall ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| governingBody | Lostwithiel Town Council ⓘ |
| hasCategory |
Civil parishes in Cornwall
ⓘ
Former parliamentary constituencies in Cornwall ⓘ Towns in Cornwall ⓘ |
| hasCulturalEvent |
Lostwithiel Carnival
ⓘ
Lostwithiel Carnival ⓘ
surface form:
Lostwithiel Festival
|
| hasDialCode | 01208 ⓘ |
| hasEconomicActivity |
antiques trade
ⓘ
tourism ⓘ |
| hasHeritage |
historic town centre
ⓘ
medieval architecture ⓘ |
| hasLandmark | Restormel Castle ⓘ |
| hasMarketCharter | medieval period ⓘ |
| hasNearbyTown |
Bodmin
ⓘ
St Austell ⓘ |
| hasPostcodeArea | PL ⓘ |
| hasPostcodeDistrict | PL22 ⓘ |
| hasPostTown |
Lostwithiel
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
LOSTWITHIEL
|
| hasRailwayStation | Lostwithiel railway station ⓘ |
| hasReligiousBuilding | St Bartholomew’s Church, Lostwithiel ⓘ |
| historicalRole |
administrative centre for the Earls of Cornwall
ⓘ
port for tin export ⓘ stannary town ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Cornwall
ⓘ
Lostwithiel self-linksurface differs ⓘ Lostwithiel self-linksurface differs ⓘ Lostwithiel self-linksurface differs ⓘ southwest England ⓘ
surface form:
South West England
|
| locatedOn |
Cornish Main Line
ⓘ
River Fowey ⓘ |
| parliamentaryConstituencyStatus | rotten borough ⓘ |
| parliamentaryRepresentationAbolished | 1832 ⓘ |
| partOf |
Cornwall Council
ⓘ
surface form:
unitary authority of Cornwall
|
| region |
southwest England
ⓘ
surface form:
South West England
|
| timeZone | GMT ⓘ |
| timeZoneDST | BST ⓘ |
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: Lostwithiel Description of subject: Lostwithiel is a historic town and former parliamentary borough in Cornwall, England, known for its medieval architecture and past political significance.
Referenced by (24)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Restormel Castle
this entity surface form:
LOSTWITHIEL
subject surface form:
Lostwithiel railway station
subject surface form:
St Bartholomew’s Church, Lostwithiel
subject surface form:
Stannary parliaments
this entity surface form:
Lostwithiel town centre
this entity surface form:
Lostwithiel civil parish