St Fillan’s Cave
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St Fillan’s Cave is a historic religious site in Pittenweem, Scotland, traditionally associated with the early Christian hermit Saint Fillan and later used as a place of pilgrimage and worship.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Saint Fillan lived and prayed in the cave | 1 |
| Saint Fillan’s Cave | 1 |
| St Fillan's Cave | 1 |
| St Fillan’s Cave canonical | 1 |
| St Fillan’s Cave, Pittenweem | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T390348 — 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: St Fillan’s Cave Context triple: [Pittenweem, hasReligiousSite, St Fillan’s Cave]
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A.
Benagil Cave
Benagil Cave is a famous seaside grotto in Portugal known for its dramatic domed ceiling, natural skylight, and golden-sand beach accessible mainly by boat or kayak.
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B.
Castle Craig
Castle Craig is a historic stone observation tower and popular hiking destination located atop East Peak in Meriden, Connecticut, offering expansive views of the surrounding region.
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C.
Lochgelly
Lochgelly is a former coal-mining town in Fife, Scotland, situated between Lochgelly Loch and the larger towns of Dunfermline and Kirkcaldy.
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D.
Sabhal Mòr Ostaig
Sabhal Mòr Ostaig is a renowned Gaelic-medium college on the Isle of Skye in Scotland, dedicated to the preservation and promotion of Scottish Gaelic language and culture.
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E.
Cairnryan
Cairnryan is a small Scottish coastal village best known as a major ferry port linking Scotland with Northern Ireland across the Irish Sea.
- 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: St Fillan’s Cave Target entity description: St Fillan’s Cave is a historic religious site in Pittenweem, Scotland, traditionally associated with the early Christian hermit Saint Fillan and later used as a place of pilgrimage and worship.
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A.
Benagil Cave
Benagil Cave is a famous seaside grotto in Portugal known for its dramatic domed ceiling, natural skylight, and golden-sand beach accessible mainly by boat or kayak.
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B.
Castle Craig
Castle Craig is a historic stone observation tower and popular hiking destination located atop East Peak in Meriden, Connecticut, offering expansive views of the surrounding region.
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C.
Lochgelly
Lochgelly is a former coal-mining town in Fife, Scotland, situated between Lochgelly Loch and the larger towns of Dunfermline and Kirkcaldy.
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D.
Sabhal Mòr Ostaig
Sabhal Mòr Ostaig is a renowned Gaelic-medium college on the Isle of Skye in Scotland, dedicated to the preservation and promotion of Scottish Gaelic language and culture.
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E.
Cairnryan
Cairnryan is a small Scottish coastal village best known as a major ferry port linking Scotland with Northern Ireland across the Irish Sea.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Christian pilgrimage site
ⓘ
cave ⓘ historic religious site ⓘ |
| access |
public
ⓘ
via key from nearby house or church ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Saint Fillan ⓘ |
| country | Scotland ⓘ |
| culturalSignificance | linked to early Scottish Christianity ⓘ |
| dedicatedTo | Saint Fillan ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
holy well
ⓘ
inscriptions ⓘ rock‑cut chamber ⓘ stone altar ⓘ |
| hasNameVariant |
St Fillan’s Cave
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Saint Fillan’s Cave
St Fillan’s Cave self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
St Fillan's Cave
|
| heritageStatus | scheduled monument ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Fife
ⓘ
Pittenweem ⓘ Scotland ⓘ |
| managedBy | Pittenweem Parish Church ⓘ |
| near | Pittenweem Harbour ⓘ |
| partOf | religious heritage of Pittenweem ⓘ |
| periodOfUse |
medieval period
ⓘ
modern era as devotional site ⓘ |
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| tourism | local visitor attraction ⓘ |
| tradition |
St Fillan’s Cave
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Saint Fillan lived and prayed in the cave
site of early Christian hermitage ⓘ |
| usedFor |
pilgrimage
ⓘ
worship ⓘ |
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: St Fillan’s Cave Description of subject: St Fillan’s Cave is a historic religious site in Pittenweem, Scotland, traditionally associated with the early Christian hermit Saint Fillan and later used as a place of pilgrimage and worship.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Saint Fillan lived and prayed in the cave
this entity surface form:
St Fillan's Cave
this entity surface form:
Saint Fillan’s Cave
this entity surface form:
St Fillan’s Cave, Pittenweem