Tail Burn
E311237
Tail Burn is a stream in southern Scotland that flows through the Grey Mare’s Tail waterfall and its surrounding valley.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tail Burn canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2939696 — 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: Tail Burn Context triple: [Grey Mare’s Tail, watercourse, Tail Burn]
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A.
Burns
Burns is a common Scottish surname most famously associated with the poet Robert Burns.
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B.
Burn
Burn is the first name of Burn Gorman, a British-American actor known for roles in productions such as "Torchwood," "Game of Thrones," and "Pacific Rim."
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C.
Burn
"Burn" is a hit pop and EDM-influenced song co-written and produced by Ryan Tedder, best known for being performed by British singer Ellie Goulding.
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D.
Burn
Burn is the abbreviated name of the former Major League Soccer team Dallas Burn, now known as FC Dallas.
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E.
Ya Burnt
"Ya Burnt" is a recurring comedic rant segment on Late Night with Seth Meyers in which Meyers humorously calls out and "burns" various topics, trends, and public figures.
- 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: Tail Burn Target entity description: Tail Burn is a stream in southern Scotland that flows through the Grey Mare’s Tail waterfall and its surrounding valley.
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A.
Burns
Burns is a common Scottish surname most famously associated with the poet Robert Burns.
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B.
Burn
Burn is the first name of Burn Gorman, a British-American actor known for roles in productions such as "Torchwood," "Game of Thrones," and "Pacific Rim."
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C.
Burn
"Burn" is a hit pop and EDM-influenced song co-written and produced by Ryan Tedder, best known for being performed by British singer Ellie Goulding.
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D.
Burn
Burn is the abbreviated name of the former Major League Soccer team Dallas Burn, now known as FC Dallas.
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E.
Ya Burnt
"Ya Burnt" is a recurring comedic rant segment on Late Night with Seth Meyers in which Meyers humorously calls out and "burns" various topics, trends, and public figures.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
stream
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watercourse ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Grey Mare’s Tail Nature Reserve
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surface form:
Grey Mare’s Tail National Trust for Scotland site
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| country | Scotland ⓘ |
| drainageBasin | River Annan basin ⓘ |
| ecosystemType | upland freshwater ecosystem ⓘ |
| flowsDirection | generally south-east ⓘ |
| flowsFrom | Loch Skeen ⓘ |
| flowsThrough |
Grey Mare’s Tail valley
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Grey Mare’s Tail waterfall ⓘ |
| geographicRegion |
Dumfries and Galloway
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surface form:
Dumfries and Galloway (region)
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| hasCharacteristic |
fast-flowing water
ⓘ
narrow channel in places ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
steep-sided valley
ⓘ
upland moorland surroundings ⓘ |
| hasWaterfall | Grey Mare’s Tail ⓘ |
| landformContext | Moffat Hills ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Scots ⓘ |
| locatedIn | southern Scotland ⓘ |
| nameElementMeaning | burn means stream in Scots ⓘ |
| naturalFeatureType | freshwater stream ⓘ |
| nearbySettlement | Moffat ⓘ |
| partOf | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| popularFor |
landscape photography
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waterfall viewing ⓘ |
| protectedAreaContext |
Grey Mare’s Tail Nature Reserve
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surface form:
Site of Special Scientific Interest (area around Grey Mare’s Tail)
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| tourismAttractionArea |
Grey Mare’s Tail Nature Reserve
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surface form:
Grey Mare’s Tail and Loch Skeen National Nature Reserve
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| usedFor |
hiking scenery
ⓘ
nature observation ⓘ |
| valleyFeature | Grey Mare’s Tail valley ⓘ |
| waterBodyType | upland burn ⓘ |
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: Tail Burn Description of subject: Tail Burn is a stream in southern Scotland that flows through the Grey Mare’s Tail waterfall and its surrounding valley.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Grey Mare’s Tail