Am Baile (Eriskay village)
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Am Baile is the main village on the Scottish island of Eriskay in the Outer Hebrides, known for its traditional crofting community and coastal setting.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Am Baile (Eriskay village) canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5891580 — 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: Am Baile (Eriskay village) Context triple: [Eriskay, hasSettlement, Am Baile (Eriskay village)]
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A.
Dunollie
Dunollie is a historic coastal site in western Scotland best known for Dunollie Castle, the ancestral stronghold of the Clan MacDougall overlooking Oban Bay.
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B.
Kilchoan
Kilchoan is a remote village on the Ardnamurchan peninsula in the Scottish Highlands, known as one of the most westerly settlements on the British mainland and a gateway to the Isle of Mull.
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C.
Ardrishaig
Ardrishaig is a coastal village on the shores of Loch Gilp in Argyll and Bute, Scotland, known historically as a small harbor and gateway to the surrounding lochs and canals.
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D.
Inchmarnock
Inchmarnock is a small, sparsely populated Scottish island in the Firth of Clyde known for its archaeological sites and historic chapel ruins.
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E.
Kilmuir
Kilmuir is a small, historic village on the Isle of Skye in Scotland, known for its traditional crofting community and scenic coastal landscapes.
- 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: Am Baile (Eriskay village) Target entity description: Am Baile is the main village on the Scottish island of Eriskay in the Outer Hebrides, known for its traditional crofting community and coastal setting.
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A.
Dunollie
Dunollie is a historic coastal site in western Scotland best known for Dunollie Castle, the ancestral stronghold of the Clan MacDougall overlooking Oban Bay.
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B.
Kilchoan
Kilchoan is a remote village on the Ardnamurchan peninsula in the Scottish Highlands, known as one of the most westerly settlements on the British mainland and a gateway to the Isle of Mull.
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C.
Ardrishaig
Ardrishaig is a coastal village on the shores of Loch Gilp in Argyll and Bute, Scotland, known historically as a small harbor and gateway to the surrounding lochs and canals.
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D.
Inchmarnock
Inchmarnock is a small, sparsely populated Scottish island in the Firth of Clyde known for its archaeological sites and historic chapel ruins.
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E.
Kilmuir
Kilmuir is a small, historic village on the Isle of Skye in Scotland, known for its traditional crofting community and scenic coastal landscapes.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
settlement
ⓘ
village ⓘ |
| administrativeArea | Comhairle nan Eilean Siar NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| climate | oceanic climate ⓘ |
| country | Scotland ⓘ |
| economyType |
crofting
ⓘ
fishing ⓘ |
| governedBy | Comhairle nan Eilean Siar NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasBuildingType | croft houses ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
Gaelic-speaking community
ⓘ
coastal setting ⓘ crofting community ⓘ rural settlement ⓘ |
| hasCoastType |
rocky shoreline
ⓘ
sandy beaches ⓘ |
| hasEconomicSector | tourism ⓘ |
| hasHeritage | traditional Hebridean crofting culture ⓘ |
| hasNaturalFeature |
coastal dunes
ⓘ
machair grassland ⓘ |
| hasReligiousTradition | Roman Catholic majority ⓘ |
| hasTraditionalActivity |
sheep crofting
ⓘ
small-scale agriculture ⓘ |
| hasViewOf | Sound of Barra NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Eriskay
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Na h-Eileanan Siar NERFINISHED ⓘ Outer Hebrides ⓘ Scotland ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ Western Isles NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInArchipelago |
Hebrides
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Outer Hebrides NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInBodyOfWater | Atlantic Ocean ⓘ |
| locatedInCulturalRegion | Gaelic Scotland ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone |
British Summer Time
ⓘ
UTC±00:00 ⓘ |
| locatedOn | island of Eriskay ⓘ |
| mainSettlementOf | Eriskay NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | parish of South Uist NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | Scottish Highlands and Islands NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| terrain |
coastal
ⓘ
hilly ⓘ |
| transportConnection | Eriskay causeway to South Uist NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usesLanguage |
English
ⓘ
Scottish Gaelic ⓘ |
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: Am Baile (Eriskay village) Description of subject: Am Baile is the main village on the Scottish island of Eriskay in the Outer Hebrides, known for its traditional crofting community and coastal setting.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Eriskay