Addiewell Oil Works
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Addiewell Oil Works was a major 19th-century Scottish shale oil refinery complex that played a key role in the early development of the oil industry in West Lothian.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Addiewell Oil Works canonical | 1 |
| Addiewell shale oil works | 1 |
| Scottish Oils Ltd | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7635216 — 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: Addiewell Oil Works Context triple: [Addiewell, historicallyAssociatedWith, Addiewell Oil Works]
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A.
Grangemouth Refinery
Grangemouth Refinery is one of the largest and most important oil refineries and petrochemical complexes in Scotland, playing a key role in the UK’s energy and chemical industries.
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B.
Atkinson-Kier Company
Atkinson-Kier Company is a constituent business unit or subsidiary within the larger MWAK Company organization.
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C.
Ardroil
Ardroil is a coastal settlement on the Isle of Lewis in Scotland’s Outer Hebrides, noted for its scenic beaches and significant archaeological remains.
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D.
Jordan Petroleum Refinery
Jordan Petroleum Refinery is the main oil refining facility in Jordan, located in Zarqa and responsible for processing and supplying much of the country’s petroleum products.
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E.
Sulphur Works
Sulphur Works is a hydrothermal area in Lassen Volcanic National Park known for its boiling mud pots, steam vents, and strong sulfurous fumes.
- 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: Addiewell Oil Works Target entity description: Addiewell Oil Works was a major 19th-century Scottish shale oil refinery complex that played a key role in the early development of the oil industry in West Lothian.
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A.
Grangemouth Refinery
Grangemouth Refinery is one of the largest and most important oil refineries and petrochemical complexes in Scotland, playing a key role in the UK’s energy and chemical industries.
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B.
Atkinson-Kier Company
Atkinson-Kier Company is a constituent business unit or subsidiary within the larger MWAK Company organization.
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C.
Ardroil
Ardroil is a coastal settlement on the Isle of Lewis in Scotland’s Outer Hebrides, noted for its scenic beaches and significant archaeological remains.
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D.
Jordan Petroleum Refinery
Jordan Petroleum Refinery is the main oil refining facility in Jordan, located in Zarqa and responsible for processing and supplying much of the country’s petroleum products.
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E.
Sulphur Works
Sulphur Works is a hydrothermal area in Lassen Volcanic National Park known for its boiling mud pots, steam vents, and strong sulfurous fumes.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
historical industrial site
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industrial complex ⓘ shale oil refinery ⓘ |
| category |
History of West Lothian
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Industrial history of Scotland ⓘ Oil refineries in Scotland ⓘ |
| country | Scotland ⓘ |
| era | 19th century ⓘ |
| hasHeritageStatus | former industrial site ⓘ |
| industry |
petroleum refining
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shale oil industry ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Addiewell
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Central Belt of Scotland ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ West Lothian ⓘ |
| materialUsed | oil shale ⓘ |
| partOf |
Scottish shale oil industry
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early Scottish oil industry ⓘ |
| product |
by-products of shale oil refining
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lubricating oils ⓘ paraffin ⓘ shale oil ⓘ |
| regionServed |
Scotland
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West Lothian ⓘ |
| significance |
major 19th-century Scottish shale oil refinery complex
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played a key role in the early development of the oil industry in West Lothian ⓘ |
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: Addiewell Oil Works Description of subject: Addiewell Oil Works was a major 19th-century Scottish shale oil refinery complex that played a key role in the early development of the oil industry in West Lothian.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Addiewell Oil Works
linked to: Addiewell Oil Works