OTTERY ST MARY
E561149
OTTERY ST MARY is a historic town in East Devon, England, known for its picturesque setting on the River Otter and traditional events such as the annual Tar Barrels festival.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| OTTERY ST MARY canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6005560 — 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: OTTERY ST MARY Context triple: [Ottery St Mary, postalTown, OTTERY ST MARY]
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A.
St Marychurch
St Marychurch is a historic district and former village now forming a residential suburb in the northern part of Torquay, Devon, England.
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B.
Holton St Mary
Holton St Mary is a small rural village and civil parish located in the county of Suffolk in eastern England.
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C.
St Mary Over the Rie
St Mary Over the Rie was a medieval parish church in Southwark, London, that later became known as St Saviour, Southwark.
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D.
Stratford St Mary
Stratford St Mary is a village and civil parish in Suffolk, England, situated in the scenic Dedham Vale area near the River Stour.
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E.
Holmbury St Mary
Holmbury St Mary is a picturesque village in the Surrey Hills of England, known for its wooded surroundings, outdoor recreation, and proximity to one of the county’s highest points, Holmbury Hill.
- 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: OTTERY ST MARY Target entity description: OTTERY ST MARY is a historic town in East Devon, England, known for its picturesque setting on the River Otter and traditional events such as the annual Tar Barrels festival.
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A.
St Marychurch
St Marychurch is a historic district and former village now forming a residential suburb in the northern part of Torquay, Devon, England.
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B.
Holton St Mary
Holton St Mary is a small rural village and civil parish located in the county of Suffolk in eastern England.
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C.
St Mary Over the Rie
St Mary Over the Rie was a medieval parish church in Southwark, London, that later became known as St Saviour, Southwark.
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D.
Stratford St Mary
Stratford St Mary is a village and civil parish in Suffolk, England, situated in the scenic Dedham Vale area near the River Stour.
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E.
Holmbury St Mary
Holmbury St Mary is a picturesque village in the Surrey Hills of England, known for its wooded surroundings, outdoor recreation, and proximity to one of the county’s highest points, Holmbury Hill.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
parish church
ⓘ
town ⓘ traditional festival ⓘ |
| category |
Civil parishes in Devon
ⓘ
East Devon NERFINISHED ⓘ Towns in Devon ⓘ |
| ceremonialCounty | Devon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
England
ⓘ
England ⓘ |
| countrySubdivision | England ⓘ |
| dedicatedTo | St Mary NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| denomination | Church of England ⓘ |
| dialCode | 01404 ⓘ |
| etymology | derived from River Otter and dedication to St Mary ⓘ |
| governingBody | Ottery St Mary Town Council NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNeighbouringSettlement |
Exeter
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Honiton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNotableFeature |
historic town centre
ⓘ
medieval church ⓘ riverside setting ⓘ |
| hasReligiousBuilding | St Mary’s Church, Ottery St Mary NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRiver | River Otter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTraditionalEvent | Tar Barrels of Ottery St Mary NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| heldIn | Ottery St Mary NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicCounty | Devon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Tar Barrels festival
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
annual flaming tar barrels tradition ⓘ picturesque setting on the River Otter ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Devon
ⓘ
East Devon NERFINISHED ⓘ southwest England ⓘ
surface form:
South West England
|
| locatedOnRiver | River Otter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occursOn | Guy Fawkes Night NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| OSGridReference | SY0994 ⓘ |
| parliamentaryConstituency | East Devon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| postalTown | OTTERY ST MARY NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| postcodeArea | EX ⓘ |
| postcodeDistrict | EX11 ⓘ |
| region | East Devon district NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timeZone |
Europe/London
ⓘ
GMT ⓘ |
| timeZoneDST | BST ⓘ |
| transport | served by nearby A30 road ⓘ |
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: OTTERY ST MARY Description of subject: OTTERY ST MARY is a historic town in East Devon, England, known for its picturesque setting on the River Otter and traditional events such as the annual Tar Barrels festival.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.