Cobh
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Cobh is a picturesque coastal town and seaport in southern Ireland, historically known as a major transatlantic departure point and the last port of call of the RMS Titanic.
All labels observed (8)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Cobh canonical | 11 |
| An Cóbh | 1 |
| Cobh (Great Island) | 1 |
| Cobh Great Island | 1 |
| Cobh Harbour area | 1 |
| Cobh harbour | 1 |
| Cobh waterfront | 1 |
| Queenstown (now Cobh), County Cork | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3689462 — 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: Cobh Context triple: [County Cork, contains, Cobh]
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A.
Cork
Cork is a major county in the south of Ireland, known for its vibrant cultural heritage, extensive coastline, and the city of Cork, one of the country’s largest urban centers.
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B.
Dundalk
Dundalk is a large unincorporated community and suburb of Baltimore, Maryland, known for its residential neighborhoods and industrial history along the Patapsco River.
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C.
Drogheda
Drogheda is a historic town in County Louth, Ireland, situated on the River Boyne and known for its medieval heritage and role in significant events of Irish history.
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D.
Sligo
Sligo is a coastal town in northwest Ireland known for its literary associations with W.B. Yeats and its scenic landscapes of mountains, lakes, and Atlantic shoreline.
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E.
Carrick-on-Shannon
Carrick-on-Shannon is a prominent riverside town in County Leitrim, Ireland, known as a major boating and tourism hub on the River Shannon.
- 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: Cobh Target entity description: Cobh is a picturesque coastal town and seaport in southern Ireland, historically known as a major transatlantic departure point and the last port of call of the RMS Titanic.
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A.
Cork
Cork is a major county in the south of Ireland, known for its vibrant cultural heritage, extensive coastline, and the city of Cork, one of the country’s largest urban centers.
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B.
Dundalk
Dundalk is a large unincorporated community and suburb of Baltimore, Maryland, known for its residential neighborhoods and industrial history along the Patapsco River.
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C.
Drogheda
Drogheda is a historic town in County Louth, Ireland, situated on the River Boyne and known for its medieval heritage and role in significant events of Irish history.
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D.
Sligo
Sligo is a coastal town in northwest Ireland known for its literary associations with W.B. Yeats and its scenic landscapes of mountains, lakes, and Atlantic shoreline.
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E.
Carrick-on-Shannon
Carrick-on-Shannon is a prominent riverside town in County Leitrim, Ireland, known as a major boating and tourism hub on the River Shannon.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Cobh Description of subject: Cobh is a picturesque coastal town and seaport in southern Ireland, historically known as a major transatlantic departure point and the last port of call of the RMS Titanic.
Referenced by (18)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Queenstown (now Cobh), County Cork
this entity surface form:
An Cóbh
this entity surface form:
Cobh harbour
this entity surface form:
Cobh (Great Island)
this entity surface form:
Cobh Great Island
this entity surface form:
Cobh waterfront
this entity surface form:
Cobh Harbour area