Port Ellen maltings
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Port Ellen maltings is a large industrial maltings facility on the Isle of Islay that produces malted barley for multiple Scotch whisky distilleries.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Port Ellen maltings canonical | 1 |
| centralised Diageo maltings | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5860231 — 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: Port Ellen maltings Context triple: [Caol Ila distillery, maltSupplier, Port Ellen maltings]
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A.
Port Ellen Distillery
Port Ellen Distillery is a legendary, now mostly closed Islay Scotch whisky distillery renowned for its rare and highly sought-after single malt whiskies.
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B.
Laphroaig distillery
Laphroaig distillery is a renowned Islay Scotch whisky producer famous for its intensely peaty, smoky single malts.
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C.
Bunnahabhain distillery
Bunnahabhain distillery is a Scottish whisky distillery known for producing predominantly unpeated single malt on the northeastern coast of Islay.
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D.
Bruichladdich distillery
Bruichladdich distillery is a renowned Scotch whisky producer on Scotland’s Isle of Islay, known for its innovative approach, focus on terroir, and both unpeated and heavily peated single malts.
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E.
Oban Distillery
Oban Distillery is one of Scotland’s oldest and smallest whisky distilleries, renowned for its coastal Highland single malt Scotch whisky produced in the town of Oban.
- 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: Port Ellen maltings Target entity description: Port Ellen maltings is a large industrial maltings facility on the Isle of Islay that produces malted barley for multiple Scotch whisky distilleries.
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A.
Port Ellen Distillery
Port Ellen Distillery is a legendary, now mostly closed Islay Scotch whisky distillery renowned for its rare and highly sought-after single malt whiskies.
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B.
Laphroaig distillery
Laphroaig distillery is a renowned Islay Scotch whisky producer famous for its intensely peaty, smoky single malts.
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C.
Bunnahabhain distillery
Bunnahabhain distillery is a Scottish whisky distillery known for producing predominantly unpeated single malt on the northeastern coast of Islay.
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D.
Bruichladdich distillery
Bruichladdich distillery is a renowned Scotch whisky producer on Scotland’s Isle of Islay, known for its innovative approach, focus on terroir, and both unpeated and heavily peated single malts.
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E.
Oban Distillery
Oban Distillery is one of Scotland’s oldest and smallest whisky distilleries, renowned for its coastal Highland single malt Scotch whisky produced in the town of Oban.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Scotch whisky infrastructure
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industrial facility ⓘ maltings facility ⓘ |
| constructionCompleted | early 1970s ⓘ |
| country |
Scotland
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United Kingdom ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
bulk malt storage facilities
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kilns for peated malt ⓘ large drum maltings ⓘ |
| hasFunction | centralized malting for multiple distilleries ⓘ |
| industry |
malting industry
ⓘ
whisky industry ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Argyll and Bute
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Islay ⓘ Port Ellen ⓘ Scotland ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ |
| locatedOn |
Isle of Islay
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linked to:
ISLE OF ISLAY
|
| near |
Port Ellen distillery site
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linked to:
Port Ellen Distillery
Port Ellen harbour ⓘ |
| notableFor | supplying most Islay distilleries with malted barley ⓘ |
| opened | 1973 ⓘ |
| operator | Diageo ⓘ |
| ownedBy | Diageo ⓘ |
| partOf | Scotch whisky supply chain ⓘ |
| process |
germination
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kilning ⓘ malting ⓘ steeping ⓘ |
| product |
distilling malt
ⓘ
malted barley ⓘ |
| rawMaterial | barley ⓘ |
| replaced | traditional floor maltings at several distilleries ⓘ |
| servesRegion |
Islay
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Scotland ⓘ |
| specializesIn | peated malt ⓘ |
| supplies |
Ardbeg distillery
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Caol Ila distillery ⓘ Lagavulin distillery ⓘ Laphroaig distillery ⓘ Port Ellen distillery ⓘ
linked to:
Port Ellen Distillery
mainland Scotch whisky distilleries ⓘ other Islay distilleries ⓘ |
| transportAccess |
road
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sea freight ⓘ |
| usedFor | production of Scotch whisky ⓘ |
| usesFuel |
coal
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oil ⓘ peat ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Port Ellen maltings Description of subject: Port Ellen maltings is a large industrial maltings facility on the Isle of Islay that produces malted barley for multiple Scotch whisky distilleries.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Port Ellen maltings