Shannon, Ireland
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Shannon is a town in County Clare in western Ireland, known for its international airport and its location near the River Shannon and the Shannon Estuary.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Shannon, Ireland canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5443802 — 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: Shannon, Ireland Context triple: [European route E20, westernTerminus, Shannon, Ireland]
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A.
Waterford
Waterford is a small town and village in eastern New York State, known as the eastern terminus of the Erie Canal and its historic canal locks.
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B.
Waterford
Waterford is a small incorporated city located in Stanislaus County in California’s Central Valley.
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C.
Waterford
Waterford is a historic port city in southeast Ireland, renowned as the country’s oldest city and for its traditional crystal glassmaking.
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D.
Setanta Ireland
Setanta Ireland was an Irish subscription sports television channel that broadcast a range of domestic and international sporting events to viewers in Ireland.
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E.
Killiney, County Dublin, Ireland
Killiney, County Dublin, Ireland is an affluent coastal suburb south of Dublin city, known for its scenic bay views, upscale residences, and association with several prominent Irish celebrities.
- 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: Shannon, Ireland Target entity description: Shannon is a town in County Clare in western Ireland, known for its international airport and its location near the River Shannon and the Shannon Estuary.
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A.
Waterford
Waterford is a small incorporated city located in Stanislaus County in California’s Central Valley.
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B.
Waterford
Waterford is a small town and village in eastern New York State, known as the eastern terminus of the Erie Canal and its historic canal locks.
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C.
Waterford
Waterford is a historic port city in southeast Ireland, renowned as the country’s oldest city and for its traditional crystal glassmaking.
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D.
Setanta Ireland
Setanta Ireland was an Irish subscription sports television channel that broadcast a range of domestic and international sporting events to viewers in Ireland.
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E.
Killiney, County Dublin, Ireland
Killiney, County Dublin, Ireland is an affluent coastal suburb south of Dublin city, known for its scenic bay views, upscale residences, and association with several prominent Irish celebrities.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
planned town
ⓘ
town ⓘ |
| administrativeStatus | town ⓘ |
| climateClassification | temperate oceanic climate ⓘ |
| country | Ireland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distanceToEnnis | approximately 22 km ⓘ |
| distanceToLimerick | approximately 20 km ⓘ |
| hasAirport | Shannon Airport NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAmenity | SkyCourt Shopping Centre NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasDialCode | +353 61 ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
commercial centre
ⓘ
industrial centre ⓘ residential centre ⓘ |
| hasIndustrialArea | Shannon Free Zone NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasIrishName | Sionainn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNearbyAirportFunction | international air travel hub ⓘ |
| hasParish | Shannon parish NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPostalCode | V14 ⓘ |
| hasPrimarySchool |
St. Conaire’s National School
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
St. Senan’s National School NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasReligiousBuilding |
Mary Immaculate Church
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
St. John and St. Paul Church NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSecondarySchool |
St. Caimin’s Community School
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
St. Patrick’s Comprehensive School NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSportsClub |
Shannon Rugby Football Club
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Shannon Town A.F.C. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTransportInfrastructure |
N19 road
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Shannon Airport NERFINISHED ⓘ nearby M18 motorway ⓘ |
| languageUsed |
English
ⓘ
Irish ⓘ |
| locatedIn | County Clare NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInProvince | Munster NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | western Ireland ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
River Shannon
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Shannon Estuary NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOnWaterbody | Shannon Estuary NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedAfter | River Shannon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nearbyCity | Limerick NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nearbyTouristAttraction |
Bunratty Castle
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Bunratty Folk Park NERFINISHED ⓘ Shannon Estuary NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOfLocalAuthority | Clare County Council NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| regionCode | IE-CE ⓘ |
| timeZone | Western European Time NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timeZoneDST | Irish Standard Time NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usesCurrency | euro ⓘ |
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: Shannon, Ireland Description of subject: Shannon is a town in County Clare in western Ireland, known for its international airport and its location near the River Shannon and the Shannon Estuary.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.