Listowel
E504009
Listowel is a historic market town in County Kerry, Ireland, known for its literary heritage and annual writers’ festival.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Listowel canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5217003 — 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: Listowel Context triple: [Ballylongford, nearestLargeTown, Listowel]
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A.
Longaville
Longaville is one of the three lords attending King Navarre in Shakespeare’s comedy *Love’s Labour’s Lost*, known for his vow of scholarly abstinence that is soon undermined by love.
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B.
Threemiletown
Threemiletown is a small village in West Lothian, Scotland, situated near the A89 road between Linlithgow and Bathgate.
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C.
Nichollstown
Nichollstown is a small settlement on Andros Island in the Bahamas, known as one of the island’s main communities.
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D.
Lethnot
Lethnot is a small rural village located in the Angus council area of eastern Scotland, known for its scenic countryside setting.
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E.
Walshe
Walshe is a surname, historically a variant of Walsh, typically of Irish or Anglo-Norman origin.
- 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: Listowel Target entity description: Listowel is a historic market town in County Kerry, Ireland, known for its literary heritage and annual writers’ festival.
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A.
Longaville
Longaville is one of the three lords attending King Navarre in Shakespeare’s comedy *Love’s Labour’s Lost*, known for his vow of scholarly abstinence that is soon undermined by love.
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B.
Threemiletown
Threemiletown is a small village in West Lothian, Scotland, situated near the A89 road between Linlithgow and Bathgate.
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C.
Nichollstown
Nichollstown is a small settlement on Andros Island in the Bahamas, known as one of the island’s main communities.
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D.
Lethnot
Lethnot is a small rural village located in the Angus council area of eastern Scotland, known for its scenic countryside setting.
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E.
Walshe
Walshe is a surname, historically a variant of Walsh, typically of Irish or Anglo-Norman origin.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | town ⓘ |
| administrativeStatus | town in County Kerry ⓘ |
| country | Ireland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| governingCouncil | Kerry County Council NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCulturalInstitution | Kerry Writers’ Museum NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasEconomicActivity |
agriculture
ⓘ
retail ⓘ tourism ⓘ |
| hasEvent |
annual horse racing festival
ⓘ
annual literary festival ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
historic streetscape
ⓘ
town square ⓘ |
| hasHeritage | literary heritage ⓘ |
| hasLandmark |
Listowel Castle
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Listowel Racecourse NERFINISHED ⓘ St John’s Theatre and Arts Centre NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMarketTradition |
agricultural fairs
ⓘ
livestock trading ⓘ |
| hasNotablePerson |
Brendan Kennelly
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Bryan MacMahon NERFINISHED ⓘ John B. Keane NERFINISHED ⓘ Maurice Walsh NERFINISHED ⓘ Ned O’Shea NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasParish |
Church of Ireland parish of Listowel
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Roman Catholic parish of Listowel ⓘ |
| hasPostalTownStatus | yes ⓘ |
| hasRailHistory | formerly served by North Kerry railway line ⓘ |
| hasTransport | regional bus services ⓘ |
| hosts |
Listowel Harvest Festival of Racing
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Listowel Writers’ Week NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Listowel Writers’ Week
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
annual writers’ festival ⓘ historic market town character ⓘ |
| language |
English
ⓘ
Irish ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
County Kerry
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
province of Munster NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOnRiver | River Feale NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nearbyTown |
Abbeyfeale
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ballybunion NERFINISHED ⓘ Tralee NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | southwest Ireland ⓘ |
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: Listowel Description of subject: Listowel is a historic market town in County Kerry, Ireland, known for its literary heritage and annual writers’ festival.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Ballylongford
subject surface form:
County Kerry