Glencorse Reservoir
E631360
Glencorse Reservoir is a scenic man-made lake in the Pentland Hills near Edinburgh, Scotland, used for water supply, recreation, and outdoor activities.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Glencorse Reservoir canonical | 5 |
| Threipmuir Reservoir | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6947790 — 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: Glencorse Reservoir Context triple: [Pentland Hills Regional Park, contains, Glencorse Reservoir]
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A.
Cowm Reservoir
Cowm Reservoir is a man-made lake near Whitworth in Lancashire, England, used for water supply and popular for outdoor recreation such as walking and watersports.
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B.
Howden Reservoir
Howden Reservoir is a large man-made lake in Derbyshire’s Peak District, known as part of the Upper Derwent Valley chain of reservoirs supplying water to nearby cities and popular for its scenic surroundings and outdoor recreation.
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C.
Glenmore Reservoir
Glenmore Reservoir is a large artificial lake in Calgary, Alberta, used for drinking water supply, recreation, and scenic waterfront activities.
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D.
Torside Reservoir
Torside Reservoir is a large man-made lake in the Longdendale valley in Derbyshire, England, forming part of the Longdendale Chain of reservoirs that supply water to the surrounding region.
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E.
Garreg Ddu Reservoir
Garreg Ddu Reservoir is a scenic man-made lake in the Elan Valley of mid-Wales, known for its distinctive submerged dam and role in supplying water to the city of Birmingham.
- 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: Glencorse Reservoir Target entity description: Glencorse Reservoir is a scenic man-made lake in the Pentland Hills near Edinburgh, Scotland, used for water supply, recreation, and outdoor activities.
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A.
Cowm Reservoir
Cowm Reservoir is a man-made lake near Whitworth in Lancashire, England, used for water supply and popular for outdoor recreation such as walking and watersports.
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B.
Howden Reservoir
Howden Reservoir is a large man-made lake in Derbyshire’s Peak District, known as part of the Upper Derwent Valley chain of reservoirs supplying water to nearby cities and popular for its scenic surroundings and outdoor recreation.
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C.
Glenmore Reservoir
Glenmore Reservoir is a large artificial lake in Calgary, Alberta, used for drinking water supply, recreation, and scenic waterfront activities.
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D.
Torside Reservoir
Torside Reservoir is a large man-made lake in the Longdendale valley in Derbyshire, England, forming part of the Longdendale Chain of reservoirs that supply water to the surrounding region.
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E.
Garreg Ddu Reservoir
Garreg Ddu Reservoir is a scenic man-made lake in the Elan Valley of mid-Wales, known for its distinctive submerged dam and role in supplying water to the city of Birmingham.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
body of water
ⓘ
reservoir ⓘ |
| basinCountry | Scotland ⓘ |
| country | Scotland ⓘ |
| environment | rural ⓘ |
| hasAccessFrom | Flotterstone car park ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
dam
ⓘ
fishing facilities ⓘ scenic surroundings ⓘ walking paths ⓘ |
| inflow | Glencorse Burn ⓘ |
| isPopularFor |
day trips from Edinburgh
ⓘ
landscape photography ⓘ leisure activities ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Lothian
ⓘ
Midlothian ⓘ Pentland Hills ⓘ Scotland ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Edinburgh ⓘ |
| locatedSouthOf | Edinburgh ⓘ |
| near |
Flotterstone
ⓘ
Glencorse ⓘ Penicuik ⓘ |
| operator | Scottish Water ⓘ |
| outflow | Glencorse Burn ⓘ |
| ownedBy | Scottish Water ⓘ |
| partOf |
Pentland Hills Regional Park
ⓘ
water supply system of Edinburgh ⓘ |
| purpose | public water supply ⓘ |
| region |
South East Scotland
ⓘ
linked to:
southeastern Scotland
|
| usedFor |
angling
ⓘ
birdwatching ⓘ hiking ⓘ outdoor activities ⓘ recreation ⓘ walking ⓘ water supply ⓘ |
| watercourse | Glencorse Burn ⓘ |
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: Glencorse Reservoir Description of subject: Glencorse Reservoir is a scenic man-made lake in the Pentland Hills near Edinburgh, Scotland, used for water supply, recreation, and outdoor activities.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Glencorse Reservoir