Woking
E22253
Woking is a large commuter town in southeast England known for its rail links to London and its association with H.G. Wells’ "The War of the Worlds."
All labels observed (9)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Woking canonical | 75 |
| Borough of Woking | 9 |
| Woking, Surrey, England | 6 |
| Woking borough | 4 |
| Woking Borough | 3 |
| Woking town centre | 2 |
| Woking district | 1 |
| Woking, Surrey | 1 |
| Woking, United Kingdom | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T144351 — 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: Woking Context triple: [Surrey, containsSettlement, Woking]
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A.
Guildford
Guildford is a historic market town in southeast England known for its medieval architecture, university, and role as a commercial and cultural hub in the region.
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B.
Surrey
Surrey is a county in southeast England known for its historic towns, affluent suburbs, and proximity to London.
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C.
London Borough of Bromley
The London Borough of Bromley is a large outer borough in southeast Greater London, known for its extensive green spaces, suburban character, and historic villages such as Downe.
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D.
Southwark
Southwark is a historic district in central London on the south bank of the River Thames, known for landmarks such as Borough Market, The Shard, and Shakespeare’s Globe.
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E.
Stockport
Stockport is a large town in Greater Manchester, England, situated southeast of central Manchester and forming part of the wider Manchester 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: Woking Target entity description: Woking is a large commuter town in southeast England known for its rail links to London and its association with H.G. Wells’ "The War of the Worlds."
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A.
Guildford
Guildford is a historic market town in southeast England known for its medieval architecture, university, and role as a commercial and cultural hub in the region.
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B.
Surrey
Surrey is a county in southeast England known for its historic towns, affluent suburbs, and proximity to London.
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C.
London Borough of Bromley
The London Borough of Bromley is a large outer borough in southeast Greater London, known for its extensive green spaces, suburban character, and historic villages such as Downe.
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D.
Southwark
Southwark is a historic district in central London on the south bank of the River Thames, known for landmarks such as Borough Market, The Shard, and Shakespeare’s Globe.
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E.
Stockport
Stockport is a large town in Greater Manchester, England, situated southeast of central Manchester and forming part of the wider Manchester urban area.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
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: Woking Description of subject: Woking is a large commuter town in southeast England known for its rail links to London and its association with H.G. Wells’ "The War of the Worlds."
Referenced by (102)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Borough of Woking
subject surface form:
South West Surrey
this entity surface form:
Borough of Woking
this entity surface form:
Woking borough
this entity surface form:
Woking, Surrey
this entity surface form:
Woking, Surrey, England
this entity surface form:
Woking, Surrey, England
this entity surface form:
Woking, Surrey, England
this entity surface form:
Borough of Woking
this entity surface form:
Woking district
this entity surface form:
Borough of Woking
this entity surface form:
Woking borough
this entity surface form:
Borough of Woking
subject surface form:
Rastatt