OSGB grid
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OSGB grid is the British national mapping coordinate system used to precisely locate points on maps of Great Britain.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| OSGB grid canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5820281 — 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: OSGB grid Context triple: [Ordnance Survey National Grid, hasAbbreviation, OSGB grid]
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A.
Gower
Gower is a UK parliamentary constituency in South Wales, named after the Gower Peninsula and represented in the House of Commons.
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B.
Gower
Gower is a scenic peninsula in South Wales renowned for its rugged coastline, sandy beaches, and status as the UK’s first designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
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C.
Golborne
Golborne is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan in Greater Manchester, England, historically part of Lancashire.
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D.
Golborne
Golborne is a neighborhood in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in West London, known for its diverse community and vibrant Golborne Road market.
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E.
Bonington
Bonington is an English surname most notably associated with Sir Christian Bonington, a renowned British mountaineer and expedition leader.
- 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: OSGB grid Target entity description: OSGB grid is the British national mapping coordinate system used to precisely locate points on maps of Great Britain.
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A.
Gower
Gower is a UK parliamentary constituency in South Wales, named after the Gower Peninsula and represented in the House of Commons.
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B.
Gower
Gower is a scenic peninsula in South Wales renowned for its rugged coastline, sandy beaches, and status as the UK’s first designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
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C.
Golborne
Golborne is a neighborhood in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in West London, known for its diverse community and vibrant Golborne Road market.
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D.
Golborne
Golborne is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan in Greater Manchester, England, historically part of Lancashire.
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E.
Bonington
Bonington is an English surname most notably associated with Sir Christian Bonington, a renowned British mountaineer and expedition leader.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
geodetic coordinate system
ⓘ
national mapping grid ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
British National Grid
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
OS National Grid NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| applicationDomain |
cartography
ⓘ
geographic information systems ⓘ navigation ⓘ |
| areaOfUse |
nearshore Great Britain
ⓘ
onshore Great Britain ⓘ |
| authorityCode | EPSG:27700 ⓘ |
| axisOrder | Easting-Northing ⓘ |
| basedOnEllipsoid | Airy 1830 ellipsoid NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| centralMeridian | 2 degrees west ⓘ |
| coordinateDimension | 2D ⓘ |
| coordinateFormat |
alphanumeric grid references
ⓘ
eastings and northings ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| covers |
England
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Scotland NERFINISHED ⓘ Wales NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| datum | OSGB36 ⓘ |
| doesNotCover | Northern Ireland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| falseEasting | 400000 metres ⓘ |
| falseNorthing | -100000 metres ⓘ |
| fullName | Ordnance Survey National Grid NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gridSquareLabeling | two-letter prefixes ⓘ |
| gridZoneDesignation | 100 km grid squares ⓘ |
| hasTransformationTo | WGS84 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| introducedBy | Ordnance Survey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| latitudeOfOrigin | 49 degrees north ⓘ |
| mapScaleCompatibility | large-scale mapping ⓘ |
| operatedBy | Ordnance Survey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| projection | Transverse Mercator projection ⓘ |
| region | British Isles NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| replacedSystem | Cassini grid NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| status | in use ⓘ |
| typicalPrecisionLevels |
1 km
ⓘ
1 m ⓘ 10 m ⓘ 100 m ⓘ |
| unit | metre ⓘ |
| usedFor |
geospatial data referencing
ⓘ
land surveying ⓘ topographic mapping ⓘ |
| usedIn | Great Britain NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedWith | Ordnance Survey maps NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: OSGB grid Description of subject: OSGB grid is the British national mapping coordinate system used to precisely locate points on maps of Great Britain.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Ordnance Survey National Grid