Port Askaig
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Port Askaig is a small village and key ferry terminal on the northeast coast of the Scottish island of Islay, serving as a main gateway to the island and nearby Jura.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Port Askaig canonical | 5 |
| Port Askaig pier | 1 |
| Port Askaig–Colonsay | 1 |
| Port Askaig–Feolin (Jura) | 1 |
| Port Askaig–Kennacraig | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T990437 — 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: Port Askaig Context triple: [Islay, hasFerryPort, Port Askaig]
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A.
Port Mòr
Port Mòr is a small coastal settlement and harbor on the Isle of Muck in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland.
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B.
Oban
Oban is a coastal town in western Scotland known as a major ferry port and gateway to the Hebridean islands.
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C.
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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D.
Kilchattan Bay
Kilchattan Bay is a small coastal village on the Isle of Bute in Scotland, known for its scenic shoreline and access to walking routes like the West Island Way.
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E.
Onchan
Onchan is a large village and parish on the Isle of Man, situated just north of the capital Douglas and forming part of the island’s main urban area.
- 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: Port Askaig Target entity description: Port Askaig is a small village and key ferry terminal on the northeast coast of the Scottish island of Islay, serving as a main gateway to the island and nearby Jura.
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A.
Port Mòr
Port Mòr is a small coastal settlement and harbor on the Isle of Muck in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland.
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B.
Oban
Oban is a coastal town in western Scotland known as a major ferry port and gateway to the Hebridean islands.
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C.
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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D.
Kilchattan Bay
Kilchattan Bay is a small coastal village on the Isle of Bute in Scotland, known for its scenic shoreline and access to walking routes like the West Island Way.
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E.
Onchan
Onchan is a large village and parish on the Isle of Man, situated just north of the capital Douglas and forming part of the island’s main urban area.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ferry terminal
ⓘ
village ⓘ |
| administrativeArea |
council area of Argyll and Bute
ⓘ
surface form:
Argyll and Bute council area
|
| bodyOfWater | Sound of Islay ⓘ |
| country | Scotland ⓘ |
| ferryOperator | Caledonian MacBrayne ⓘ |
| gridReferenceSystem | Ordnance Survey National Grid ⓘ |
| hasEconomicActivity |
ferry services
ⓘ
tourism ⓘ |
| hasFacility |
hotel
ⓘ
petrol station ⓘ shop ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
harbour village
ⓘ
small settlement ⓘ |
| hasFerryRoute |
Port Askaig
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Port Askaig–Colonsay
Port Askaig self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Port Askaig–Feolin (Jura)
Port Askaig self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Port Askaig–Kennacraig
|
| hasFunction |
ferry terminal for Jura
ⓘ
main ferry terminal for Islay ⓘ |
| hasHarbour |
Port Askaig
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Port Askaig pier
|
| hasNearbyDistillery |
Bunnahabhain distillery
ⓘ
Caol Ila distillery ⓘ |
| hasPostTown |
ISLE OF ISLAY
ⓘ
surface form:
Isle of Islay
|
| hasRoadConnection | A846 road NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTransportConnection |
ferry to Colonsay
ⓘ
ferry to Jura ⓘ ferry to Kennacraig ⓘ |
| language |
English
ⓘ
Scottish Gaelic ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Argyll and Bute
ⓘ
Inner Hebrides ⓘ Islay ⓘ Scotland ⓘ |
| locatedOn | northeast coast of Islay ⓘ |
| locatedOnCoastOf | Sound of Islay ⓘ |
| nearbyIsland |
Islay
ⓘ
Jura ⓘ |
| partOf | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| region | Inner Hebrides ⓘ |
| servesAs |
gateway to Islay
ⓘ
gateway to Jura ⓘ |
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: Port Askaig Description of subject: Port Askaig is a small village and key ferry terminal on the northeast coast of the Scottish island of Islay, serving as a main gateway to the island and nearby Jura.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Port Askaig pier
this entity surface form:
Port Askaig–Feolin (Jura)
this entity surface form:
Port Askaig–Kennacraig
this entity surface form:
Port Askaig–Colonsay