Broughty Ferry
E205660
Broughty Ferry is a coastal suburb of Dundee in eastern Scotland, known for its sandy beach, historic Broughty Castle, and views over the Firth of Tay.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Broughty Ferry canonical | 9 |
| Dundee city centre | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T763526 — 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: Broughty Ferry Context triple: [Firth of Tay, mouthNear, Broughty Ferry]
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A.
Leith
Leith is a historic port district of Edinburgh, Scotland, known for its maritime heritage and revitalized waterfront.
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B.
Cumbernauld
Cumbernauld is a post-war new town in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, known for its modernist planning and distinctive, often-criticized town centre architecture.
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C.
New Town
New Town is a rapidly developing planned satellite city near Kolkata in the Indian state of West Bengal, known for its modern infrastructure and IT hubs.
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D.
Cramond
Cramond is a historic village and suburb in the north-west of Edinburgh, Scotland, situated at the mouth of the River Almond on the Firth of Forth.
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E.
Inverkeithing
Inverkeithing is a coastal town in Fife, Scotland, situated near the Forth bridges and functioning as a key commuter hub for the Edinburgh 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: Broughty Ferry Target entity description: Broughty Ferry is a coastal suburb of Dundee in eastern Scotland, known for its sandy beach, historic Broughty Castle, and views over the Firth of Tay.
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A.
Leith
Leith is a historic port district of Edinburgh, Scotland, known for its maritime heritage and revitalized waterfront.
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B.
Cumbernauld
Cumbernauld is a post-war new town in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, known for its modernist planning and distinctive, often-criticized town centre architecture.
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C.
New Town
New Town is a rapidly developing planned satellite city near Kolkata in the Indian state of West Bengal, known for its modern infrastructure and IT hubs.
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D.
Cramond
Cramond is a historic village and suburb in the north-west of Edinburgh, Scotland, situated at the mouth of the River Almond on the Firth of Forth.
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E.
Inverkeithing
Inverkeithing is a coastal town in Fife, Scotland, situated near the Forth bridges and functioning as a key commuter hub for the Edinburgh area.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Broughty Ferry Description of subject: Broughty Ferry is a coastal suburb of Dundee in eastern Scotland, known for its sandy beach, historic Broughty Castle, and views over the Firth of Tay.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Eastern Scotland
this entity surface form:
Dundee city centre