Riddrie, Glasgow, Scotland
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Riddrie, Glasgow, Scotland is a residential district in the northeast of Glasgow, noted for its early 20th-century housing schemes and as the birthplace of writer and artist Alasdair Gray.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Riddrie, Glasgow, Scotland canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10949342 — 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: Riddrie, Glasgow, Scotland Context triple: [Alasdair Gray, placeOfBirth, Riddrie, Glasgow, Scotland]
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A.
Dalmarnock, Glasgow
Dalmarnock, Glasgow is an inner-city district on the east side of Glasgow, Scotland, historically known for its heavy industry and engineering works.
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B.
Dumfries, Scotland
Dumfries, Scotland is a historic market town and former royal burgh in southwest Scotland, known as the "Queen of the South" and noted for its association with poet Robert Burns.
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C.
Scotstoun, Glasgow
Scotstoun, Glasgow is a riverside district on the north bank of the River Clyde known for its historic and modern shipbuilding industry.
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D.
Giffnock, Renfrewshire, Scotland
Giffnock, Renfrewshire, Scotland is a suburban town on the southern outskirts of Glasgow, known as an affluent residential area within the historic county of Renfrewshire.
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E.
Maryhill, Glasgow
Maryhill, Glasgow is a residential and historically industrial district in the north-west of Glasgow, Scotland, known for its canal, tenement housing, and strong local football culture.
- 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: Riddrie, Glasgow, Scotland Target entity description: Riddrie, Glasgow, Scotland is a residential district in the northeast of Glasgow, noted for its early 20th-century housing schemes and as the birthplace of writer and artist Alasdair Gray.
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A.
Dalmarnock, Glasgow
Dalmarnock, Glasgow is an inner-city district on the east side of Glasgow, Scotland, historically known for its heavy industry and engineering works.
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B.
Dumfries, Scotland
Dumfries, Scotland is a historic market town and former royal burgh in southwest Scotland, known as the "Queen of the South" and noted for its association with poet Robert Burns.
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C.
Scotstoun, Glasgow
Scotstoun, Glasgow is a riverside district on the north bank of the River Clyde known for its historic and modern shipbuilding industry.
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D.
Giffnock, Renfrewshire, Scotland
Giffnock, Renfrewshire, Scotland is a suburban town on the southern outskirts of Glasgow, known as an affluent residential area within the historic county of Renfrewshire.
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E.
Maryhill, Glasgow
Maryhill, Glasgow is a residential and historically industrial district in the north-west of Glasgow, Scotland, known for its canal, tenement housing, and strong local football culture.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
neighbourhood
ⓘ
residential district ⓘ |
| adjacentTo |
Barmulloch
NERFINISHED
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Carntyne NERFINISHED ⓘ Dennistoun NERFINISHED ⓘ Haghill NERFINISHED ⓘ Provanmill NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Riddrie, Glasgow, Scotland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Scotland ⓘ |
| developedInPeriod | early 20th century ⓘ |
| governedBy | Glasgow City Council NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAreaType | urban ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
residential
ⓘ
suburban ⓘ |
| hasEducationalInstitution |
Riddrie Primary School
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Smithycroft Secondary School NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasGreenSpace |
Riddrie Knowes open space
ⓘ
Riddrie Park NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLandmark |
Riddrie Knowes
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Riddrie Library NERFINISHED ⓘ Riddrie Parish Church NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNotableResident | Alasdair Gray NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPostalCode | G33 ⓘ |
| hasPublicTransport | bus services to Glasgow city centre ⓘ |
| hasReligiousBuilding |
Riddrie Parish Church
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
St Thomas’ Riddrie Roman Catholic Church NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRoad |
Cumbernauld Road
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Riddrie Knowes Road NERFINISHED ⓘ Smithycroft Road NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalDevelopmentType | municipal housing scheme ⓘ |
| knownFor |
birthplace of Alasdair Gray
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cottage-style housing ⓘ early 20th-century housing schemes ⓘ tenement housing ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Glasgow
ⓘ
central belt of Scotland ⓘ east end of Glasgow ⓘ north of the M8 motorway ⓘ northeast Glasgow ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeArea | Glasgow City council area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | City of Glasgow NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Riddrie, Glasgow, Scotland Description of subject: Riddrie, Glasgow, Scotland is a residential district in the northeast of Glasgow, noted for its early 20th-century housing schemes and as the birthplace of writer and artist Alasdair Gray.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.