Douglas Borough Council
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Douglas Borough Council is the local authority responsible for municipal services, administration, and governance in the town of Douglas on the Isle of Man.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Douglas Borough Council canonical | 5 |
| Douglas Borough | 2 |
| Douglas borough | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2028204 — 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: Douglas Borough Council Context triple: [Douglas, governedBy, Douglas Borough Council]
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A.
Eccles Borough Council
Eccles Borough Council was the former local government authority for the town of Eccles in Greater Manchester, England, prior to its functions being absorbed into the larger metropolitan administration.
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B.
Manchester City Council
Manchester City Council is the local government authority responsible for providing public services and administration for the city of Manchester, England.
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C.
Cessnock City Council
Cessnock City Council is the local government authority responsible for administering the City of Cessnock in the Hunter Region of New South Wales, Australia.
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D.
Middlesbrough Council
Middlesbrough Council is the local authority responsible for providing municipal services and governance for the town of Middlesbrough and its surrounding areas in North Yorkshire, England.
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E.
Bristol City Council
Bristol City Council is the local government authority responsible for providing public services and administration for the city of Bristol, England.
- 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: Douglas Borough Council Target entity description: Douglas Borough Council is the local authority responsible for municipal services, administration, and governance in the town of Douglas on the Isle of Man.
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A.
Eccles Borough Council
Eccles Borough Council was the former local government authority for the town of Eccles in Greater Manchester, England, prior to its functions being absorbed into the larger metropolitan administration.
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B.
Manchester City Council
Manchester City Council is the local government authority responsible for providing public services and administration for the city of Manchester, England.
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C.
Cessnock City Council
Cessnock City Council is the local government authority responsible for administering the City of Cessnock in the Hunter Region of New South Wales, Australia.
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D.
Middlesbrough Council
Middlesbrough Council is the local authority responsible for providing municipal services and governance for the town of Middlesbrough and its surrounding areas in North Yorkshire, England.
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E.
Bristol City Council
Bristol City Council is the local government authority responsible for providing public services and administration for the city of Bristol, England.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
local authority
ⓘ
municipal council ⓘ |
| appliesLegalSystem | Manx law ⓘ |
| collects | local rates ⓘ |
| country |
Isle of Man (crown dependency)
ⓘ
surface form:
Isle of Man
|
| governingBodyFor |
Douglas Borough Council
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Douglas borough
|
| governmentType | local government ⓘ |
| governs | Douglas ⓘ |
| hasGovernmentForm | borough council ⓘ |
| hasLegislativeBody | Douglas Borough Council members ⓘ |
| hasSeatIn | Douglas Town Hall ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
Douglas
ⓘ
Douglas Town Hall ⓘ |
| jurisdiction | Douglas ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
British Isles
ⓘ
Douglas ⓘ Isle of Man (crown dependency) ⓘ
surface form:
Isle of Man
|
| oversees | local by-laws in Douglas ⓘ |
| partOf | local government of the Isle of Man ⓘ |
| responsibleFor |
car parks
ⓘ
cemeteries ⓘ environmental health functions ⓘ harbour-related local services ⓘ licensing functions ⓘ local administration ⓘ local amenities ⓘ local governance ⓘ municipal services ⓘ parks and open spaces ⓘ public toilets ⓘ some housing functions ⓘ street cleaning ⓘ town centre management ⓘ waste collection ⓘ |
| serviceArea |
some surrounding districts of Douglas
ⓘ
urban area of Douglas ⓘ |
| usesLanguage |
English
ⓘ
Manx ⓘ |
| website | https://www.douglas.im/ ⓘ |
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: Douglas Borough Council Description of subject: Douglas Borough Council is the local authority responsible for municipal services, administration, and governance in the town of Douglas on the Isle of Man.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Douglas Borough
this entity surface form:
Douglas Borough
this entity surface form:
Douglas borough