Piltown
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Piltown is a village in County Kilkenny, Ireland, known for its agricultural show, historic tower, and location near the River Suir.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Piltown canonical | 1 |
| Piltown municipal district | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4764156 — 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: Piltown Context triple: [County Kilkenny, containsSettlement, Piltown]
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A.
Harrodstown
Harrodstown was the original pioneer settlement that later became Harrodsburg, recognized as one of the earliest permanent European-American communities in Kentucky.
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B.
Holytown
Holytown is a small village in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, situated near Motherwell and known primarily as a residential commuter community.
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C.
Thistletown
Thistletown is a residential neighbourhood in the northwestern part of Toronto, Ontario, known for its suburban character and diverse community.
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D.
Windlestone
Windlestone is a village in County Durham, England, known for its historic country house, Windlestone Hall, and its rural surroundings.
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E.
Liberton
Liberton is a suburban residential area in the south of Edinburgh, Scotland, known for its historic parish church and views towards the Pentland Hills.
- 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: Piltown Target entity description: Piltown is a village in County Kilkenny, Ireland, known for its agricultural show, historic tower, and location near the River Suir.
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A.
Harrodstown
Harrodstown was the original pioneer settlement that later became Harrodsburg, recognized as one of the earliest permanent European-American communities in Kentucky.
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B.
Holytown
Holytown is a small village in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, situated near Motherwell and known primarily as a residential commuter community.
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C.
Thistletown
Thistletown is a residential neighbourhood in the northwestern part of Toronto, Ontario, known for its suburban character and diverse community.
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D.
Windlestone
Windlestone is a village in County Durham, England, known for its historic country house, Windlestone Hall, and its rural surroundings.
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E.
Liberton
Liberton is a suburban residential area in the south of Edinburgh, Scotland, known for its historic parish church and views towards the Pentland Hills.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | village ⓘ |
| category | Towns and villages in County Kilkenny ⓘ |
| coordinates | 52.353°N 7.338°W ⓘ |
| country | Ireland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| elevation | approximately 40 metres ⓘ |
| governingBody | Kilkenny County Council NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAgriculturalShow | Iverk Agricultural Show NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAmenity |
community hall
ⓘ
primary school ⓘ pubs ⓘ shops ⓘ |
| hasCivilParish |
Fiddown
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Owning NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasDialCode | +353 51 ⓘ |
| hasEducationalInstitution |
Owning National School
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Piltown National School NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLandmark |
Piltown Tower
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sham Castle (Piltown Tower) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNearbyEstate | Bessborough House (near Piltown) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNearbyFeature | Suir Valley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNearbyStructure | Bessborough House tower NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNotableEvent | Iverk Show NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPostalCode | E32 ⓘ |
| hasReligiousBuilding | Church of the Assumption, Piltown NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSportsClub | Piltown GAA NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicEventAssociated | 1798 Rebellion (local associations) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| IrishName | Baile an Phoill NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| IrishNameMeaning | town of the hole ⓘ |
| Iverk Agricultural ShowClaim | oldest agricultural show in Ireland ⓘ |
| Iverk Agricultural ShowFounded | 1826 ⓘ |
| knownFor |
agricultural show
ⓘ
historic tower ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
County Kilkenny
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Province of Leinster NERFINISHED ⓘ barony of Iverk ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Carrick-on-Suir
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
River Suir NERFINISHED ⓘ Waterford NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nearestCity | Waterford NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nearestLargeTown | Carrick-on-Suir NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | South-East Ireland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| roadJunctionOf |
N24 road
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
R698 road NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timeZone | WET ⓘ |
| timeZoneDST |
IST
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
WEST ⓘ |
| transport | served by Bus Éireann routes on N24 ⓘ |
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: Piltown Description of subject: Piltown is a village in County Kilkenny, Ireland, known for its agricultural show, historic tower, and location near the River Suir.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Piltown municipal district