The Tumbling Weir
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The Tumbling Weir is an unusual circular weir and historic water feature on the River Otter in Ottery St Mary, Devon, known for its distinctive doughnut-shaped design.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Tumbling Weir canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6005557 — 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: The Tumbling Weir Context triple: [Ottery St Mary, hasLandmark, The Tumbling Weir]
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A.
River Suck
River Suck is a major river in western Ireland that flows through counties such as Roscommon and Galway before joining the River Shannon.
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B.
Door to the River
Door to the River is a 1960 abstract expressionist painting by Willem de Kooning, noted for its gestural brushwork and luminous, landscape-evoking color fields.
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C.
The Quiet Pools
The Quiet Pools is a science fiction novel by Michael Kube-McDowell that explores the social and psychological impact of humanity’s first interstellar colonization effort.
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D.
The River
The River is a 1980 double album by Bruce Springsteen that blends rock, folk, and heartland storytelling, featuring themes of working-class struggle and emotional turmoil.
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E.
The River
"The River" is a 1938 Broadway play by Patrick Hastings, remembered today largely for featuring American stage and film actress Anne Revere in a notable role.
- 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: The Tumbling Weir Target entity description: The Tumbling Weir is an unusual circular weir and historic water feature on the River Otter in Ottery St Mary, Devon, known for its distinctive doughnut-shaped design.
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A.
River Suck
River Suck is a major river in western Ireland that flows through counties such as Roscommon and Galway before joining the River Shannon.
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B.
Door to the River
Door to the River is a 1960 abstract expressionist painting by Willem de Kooning, noted for its gestural brushwork and luminous, landscape-evoking color fields.
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C.
The Quiet Pools
The Quiet Pools is a science fiction novel by Michael Kube-McDowell that explores the social and psychological impact of humanity’s first interstellar colonization effort.
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D.
The River
The River is a 1980 double album by Bruce Springsteen that blends rock, folk, and heartland storytelling, featuring themes of working-class struggle and emotional turmoil.
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E.
The River
"The River" is a 1938 Broadway play by Patrick Hastings, remembered today largely for featuring American stage and film actress Anne Revere in a notable role.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
circular weir
ⓘ
historic water feature ⓘ tourist attraction ⓘ |
| access | publicly accessible ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Ottery St Mary water management system ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| hasDesign | circular stepped weir ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
central circular opening
ⓘ
radial steps for water flow ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
controls water level in the River Otter
ⓘ
diverts water into a mill leat ⓘ |
| hasNameOrigin | named for tumbling motion of water through the circular opening ⓘ |
| hasShape | doughnut-shaped ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | local landmark ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Devon
ⓘ
England ⓘ Ottery St Mary NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOn | River Otter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| material | stone ⓘ |
| near |
Old Ottery Mill leat
ⓘ
Ottery St Mary town centre NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
doughnut-shaped overflow
ⓘ
unusual circular design ⓘ |
| partOf | River Otter catchment NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region |
southwest England
ⓘ
surface form:
South West England
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| tourism | popular with visitors to Ottery St Mary ⓘ |
| usedFor | regulating flow to downstream sections of the River Otter ⓘ |
| watercourse | River Otter 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: The Tumbling Weir Description of subject: The Tumbling Weir is an unusual circular weir and historic water feature on the River Otter in Ottery St Mary, Devon, known for its distinctive doughnut-shaped design.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.