Tayport
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Tayport is a small coastal town in northeast Fife, Scotland, situated on the south bank of the Firth of Tay opposite Dundee.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tayport canonical | 16 |
| town of Tayport | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T215343 — 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: Tayport Context triple: [Fife Coastal Path, passesThrough, Tayport]
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A.
Motherwell
Motherwell is a former industrial town in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, historically known as a major center of the steel industry.
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B.
Newport-on-Tay
Newport-on-Tay is a small town in northeast Fife, Scotland, situated on the south bank of the River Tay opposite Dundee.
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C.
Kirriemuir
Kirriemuir is a small historic town in eastern Scotland, best known as the birthplace of Peter Pan author J. M. Barrie.
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D.
Buckhaven
Buckhaven is a coastal town in eastern Scotland, situated on the Firth of Forth in the historic county of Fife.
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E.
Kincardine
Kincardine is a small Scottish town on the north shore of the Firth of Forth, known for its historic bridge and industrial heritage.
- 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: Tayport Target entity description: Tayport is a small coastal town in northeast Fife, Scotland, situated on the south bank of the Firth of Tay opposite Dundee.
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A.
Motherwell
Motherwell is a former industrial town in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, historically known as a major center of the steel industry.
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B.
Newport-on-Tay
Newport-on-Tay is a small town in northeast Fife, Scotland, situated on the south bank of the River Tay opposite Dundee.
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C.
Kirriemuir
Kirriemuir is a small historic town in eastern Scotland, best known as the birthplace of Peter Pan author J. M. Barrie.
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D.
Buckhaven
Buckhaven is a coastal town in eastern Scotland, situated on the Firth of Forth in the historic county of Fife.
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E.
Kincardine
Kincardine is a small Scottish town on the north shore of the Firth of Forth, known for its historic bridge and industrial heritage.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
settlement
ⓘ
town ⓘ |
| administrativeStatus | burgh (historical) ⓘ |
| country | Scotland ⓘ |
| crossedBy |
Tay Road Bridge
ⓘ
surface form:
Tay Road Bridge (nearby terminus at Dundee)
|
| distanceTo |
approximately 10 km south-east of Dundee city centre
ⓘ
approximately 3 km east of the Tay Road Bridge Dundee end ⓘ |
| footballClubPlaysIn | Scottish Junior Football Association ⓘ |
| formerName | Ferry-Port-on-Craig ⓘ |
| governingBody | Fife Council ⓘ |
| hasAmenity |
community facilities
ⓘ
primary school ⓘ pubs ⓘ shops ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
golf course
ⓘ
harbour ⓘ marina ⓘ |
| hasHarbourFunction |
leisure boating
ⓘ
small-scale fishing ⓘ |
| hasNearbyFeature |
Tentsmuir Forest
ⓘ
Tentsmuir Forest ⓘ
surface form:
Tentsmuir National Nature Reserve
|
| hasRecreationalArea |
Monifieth Golf Links
ⓘ
surface form:
Tayport Links
coastal walking paths ⓘ |
| hasReligiousBuilding | Tayport Parish Church ⓘ |
| hasSportsClub | Tayport Football Club ⓘ |
| hasTransportLink |
road connections to Dundee
ⓘ
road connections to St Andrews ⓘ |
| hasViewOf |
Dundee
ⓘ
surface form:
Dundee waterfront
Tay Rail Bridge ⓘ |
| historicCounty | Fife ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Fife
ⓘ
North East Fife ⓘ
surface form:
northeast Fife
|
| locatedNear | North Sea coast ⓘ |
| locatedOn | south bank of the Firth of Tay ⓘ |
| locatedOpposite | Dundee ⓘ |
| nearbySettlement |
Leuchars
ⓘ
Newport-on-Tay ⓘ |
| partOf |
Kingdom of Fife council area
ⓘ
United Kingdom ⓘ |
| postalTown | Tayport self-link ⓘ |
| region |
eastern Scotland
ⓘ
surface form:
East Scotland
|
| traditionalIndustry |
ferry services
ⓘ
fishing ⓘ shipbuilding ⓘ |
| waterBody | Firth of Tay ⓘ |
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: Tayport Description of subject: Tayport is a small coastal town in northeast Fife, Scotland, situated on the south bank of the Firth of Tay opposite Dundee.
Referenced by (17)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
town of Tayport