Yarrow Water
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Yarrow Water is a river in the Scottish Borders that flows through the Yarrow Valley before joining the River Ettrick.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Yarrow Water canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3996733 — 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: Yarrow Water Context triple: [Ettrick Hills, drainageBasin, Yarrow Water]
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A.
Lightwater
Lightwater is a village and civil parish in the English county of Surrey, known for its residential character and proximity to heathland and countryside.
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B.
Springwater
Springwater is a rural township in central Ontario, Canada, known for its agricultural landscape and proximity to the city of Barrie.
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C.
Old Water
Old Water is a minor river in northern England that serves as one of the tributaries feeding into the River Eden.
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D.
King Water
King Water is a small river in Cumbria, England, that serves as one of the tributaries feeding into the River Eden.
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E.
Watermillock
Watermillock is a small village in the Lake District of Cumbria, England, known for its scenic setting on the slopes above Ullswater and its access to popular walking and outdoor activities.
- 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: Yarrow Water Target entity description: Yarrow Water is a river in the Scottish Borders that flows through the Yarrow Valley before joining the River Ettrick.
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A.
Lightwater
Lightwater is a village and civil parish in the English county of Surrey, known for its residential character and proximity to heathland and countryside.
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B.
Springwater
Springwater is a rural township in central Ontario, Canada, known for its agricultural landscape and proximity to the city of Barrie.
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C.
Old Water
Old Water is a minor river in northern England that serves as one of the tributaries feeding into the River Eden.
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D.
King Water
King Water is a small river in Cumbria, England, that serves as one of the tributaries feeding into the River Eden.
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E.
Watermillock
Watermillock is a small village in the Lake District of Cumbria, England, known for its scenic setting on the slopes above Ullswater and its access to popular walking and outdoor activities.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | river ⓘ |
| country |
Scotland
ⓘ
United Kingdom ⓘ |
| drainageBasin | Tweed basin ⓘ |
| flowsGenerallyTowards | east ⓘ |
| flowsThrough | Yarrow Valley ⓘ |
| hasCulturalAssociation |
Border folklore
ⓘ
traditional Scottish songs ⓘ |
| hasEcosystem | freshwater river habitat ⓘ |
| hasNameOrigin | Yarrow Valley ⓘ |
| hasRecreation |
angling
ⓘ
walking ⓘ wildlife watching ⓘ |
| hasWildlife |
otter
ⓘ
salmon ⓘ trout ⓘ wading birds ⓘ |
| knownFor |
association with Border ballads
ⓘ
scenic valley landscapes ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Scottish Borders
ⓘ
Southern Uplands ⓘ Yarrow parish ⓘ |
| mouthOfWatercourse | River Ettrick ⓘ |
| near | St Mary’s Loch ⓘ |
| partOf | River Tweed catchment ⓘ |
| region | Scottish Borders council area ⓘ |
| tributaryOf | River Ettrick ⓘ |
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: Yarrow Water Description of subject: Yarrow Water is a river in the Scottish Borders that flows through the Yarrow Valley before joining the River Ettrick.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.