The Hirsel, Coldstream, Scotland
E267540
The Hirsel in Coldstream, Scotland is a historic country house and estate that served as the family seat of the Earls of Home, including former UK Prime Minister Alec Douglas-Home.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Hirsel, Coldstream, Scotland canonical | 2 |
| The Hirsel, Coldstream, Berwickshire, Scotland | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2450593 — 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: The Hirsel, Coldstream, Scotland Context triple: [Alec Douglas-Home, placeOfDeath, The Hirsel, Coldstream, Scotland]
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A.
Coldstream, Scotland
Coldstream, Scotland is a small historic town in the Scottish Borders on the River Tweed, best known as the namesake and original home of the Coldstream Guards regiment.
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B.
Pitlochry, Scotland
Pitlochry, Scotland is a picturesque Highland town known for its Victorian architecture, scenic surroundings, and popularity as a tourist destination.
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C.
Dalmeny, Scotland
Dalmeny, Scotland is a small village in West Lothian near Edinburgh, known for its historic parish church and proximity to the Rosebery family estate.
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D.
Inchgarvie
Inchgarvie is a small rocky island in Scotland’s Firth of Forth, best known for its historic fortifications and its role in supporting the Forth Bridge.
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E.
Murieston
Murieston is a residential suburb of the Scottish new town of Livingston, known for its family housing and green spaces.
- 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: The Hirsel, Coldstream, Scotland Target entity description: The Hirsel in Coldstream, Scotland is a historic country house and estate that served as the family seat of the Earls of Home, including former UK Prime Minister Alec Douglas-Home.
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A.
Coldstream, Scotland
Coldstream, Scotland is a small historic town in the Scottish Borders on the River Tweed, best known as the namesake and original home of the Coldstream Guards regiment.
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B.
Pitlochry, Scotland
Pitlochry, Scotland is a picturesque Highland town known for its Victorian architecture, scenic surroundings, and popularity as a tourist destination.
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C.
Dalmeny, Scotland
Dalmeny, Scotland is a small village in West Lothian near Edinburgh, known for its historic parish church and proximity to the Rosebery family estate.
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D.
Inchgarvie
Inchgarvie is a small rocky island in Scotland’s Firth of Forth, best known for its historic fortifications and its role in supporting the Forth Bridge.
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E.
Murieston
Murieston is a residential suburb of the Scottish new town of Livingston, known for its family housing and green spaces.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
country estate
ⓘ
country house ⓘ historic house ⓘ |
| associatedTitle | Earl of Home ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Alec Douglas-Home ⓘ |
| category | Historic houses in the Scottish Borders ⓘ |
| country | Scotland ⓘ |
| familySeatOf | Earls of Home ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
The Hirsel
ⓘ
surface form:
The Hirsel, Coldstream
|
| hasAmenity |
country park
ⓘ
visitor facilities ⓘ walking trails ⓘ |
| hasCountry | Scotland ⓘ |
| hasGarden | The Hirsel gardens ⓘ |
| hasHistoricUse |
aristocratic residence
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family seat ⓘ |
| hasLake | Hirsel Lake ⓘ |
| hasParkland | The Hirsel estate parkland ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Berwickshire
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Coldstream ⓘ Scottish Borders ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ |
| near |
Coldstream town centre
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River Tweed ⓘ |
| notableFamily | Home family ⓘ |
| notableResident | Alec Douglas-Home ⓘ |
| openToPublic | partially ⓘ |
| ownedBy | Home family ⓘ |
| region | Borders region of Scotland ⓘ |
| servedAsResidenceOf | Alec Douglas-Home ⓘ |
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: The Hirsel, Coldstream, Scotland Description of subject: The Hirsel in Coldstream, Scotland is a historic country house and estate that served as the family seat of the Earls of Home, including former UK Prime Minister Alec Douglas-Home.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Alec Douglas-Home
this entity surface form:
The Hirsel, Coldstream, Berwickshire, Scotland