St Colmcille’s Well
E613977
St Colmcille’s Well is a historic holy well in Swords, Ireland, traditionally associated with the early Christian saint Colmcille and local religious devotion.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| St Colmcille’s Holy Well | 1 |
| St Colmcille’s Well canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6719708 — 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: St Colmcille’s Well Context triple: [Swords, hasLandmark, St Colmcille’s Well]
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A.
St Winefride's Well
St Winefride's Well is a famous medieval pilgrimage site and holy well in Wales, long revered for its reputed healing waters and association with the legend of Saint Winefride.
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B.
St Ann’s Well
St Ann’s Well is a historic thermal spring in Buxton, England, long associated with spa culture and reputed healing waters.
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C.
St Ann’s Well
St Ann’s Well is a historic spring and popular visitor spot on the slopes of the Malvern Hills, long associated with the area’s famed mineral waters and spa heritage.
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D.
Colm Cille
Colm Cille, better known as Saint Columba, was a 6th-century Irish abbot and missionary credited with spreading Christianity in Scotland and founding the influential monastery on the island of Iona.
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E.
Kinnegad
Kinnegad is a small town in eastern Ireland that serves as a key junction on the main routes between Dublin, the Midlands, and the west of the country.
- 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: St Colmcille’s Well Target entity description: St Colmcille’s Well is a historic holy well in Swords, Ireland, traditionally associated with the early Christian saint Colmcille and local religious devotion.
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A.
St Winefride's Well
St Winefride's Well is a famous medieval pilgrimage site and holy well in Wales, long revered for its reputed healing waters and association with the legend of Saint Winefride.
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B.
St Ann’s Well
St Ann’s Well is a historic thermal spring in Buxton, England, long associated with spa culture and reputed healing waters.
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C.
St Ann’s Well
St Ann’s Well is a historic spring and popular visitor spot on the slopes of the Malvern Hills, long associated with the area’s famed mineral waters and spa heritage.
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D.
Colm Cille
Colm Cille, better known as Saint Columba, was a 6th-century Irish abbot and missionary credited with spreading Christianity in Scotland and founding the influential monastery on the island of Iona.
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E.
Kinnegad
Kinnegad is a small town in eastern Ireland that serves as a key junction on the main routes between Dublin, the Midlands, and the west of the country.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
historic site
ⓘ
holy well ⓘ religious site ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Saint Colmcille
ⓘ
linked to:
Saint Columba
early Irish Christianity ⓘ |
| country | Ireland ⓘ |
| dedicatedTo |
Saint Colmcille
ⓘ
linked to:
Saint Columba
|
| era | early Christian tradition ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
St Colmcille’s Holy Well
ⓘ
linked to:
St Colmcille’s Well
|
| hasCulturalSignificance |
local pilgrimage site
ⓘ
site of local religious devotion ⓘ |
| hasFeature | spring or water source ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
place of prayer
ⓘ
site for collecting holy water ⓘ |
| hasHeritageType | holy well ⓘ |
| hasMaterial | stone ⓘ |
| hasStatus | historic religious monument ⓘ |
| hasTypeOfUse |
devotional use
ⓘ
folk religious practice ⓘ |
| languageOfName | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
County Dublin
ⓘ
Ireland ⓘ Swords ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
Saint Colmcille
ⓘ
linked to:
Saint Columba
|
| partOf | Christian heritage of Swords ⓘ |
| religiousTradition |
Christianity
ⓘ
Roman Catholic devotional practice ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: St Colmcille’s Well Description of subject: St Colmcille’s Well is a historic holy well in Swords, Ireland, traditionally associated with the early Christian saint Colmcille and local religious devotion.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: St Colmcille’s Well