Methil Power Station (former)
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Methil Power Station (former) was a coal-fired power station in Methil, Fife, Scotland, that operated for much of the 20th century before its decommissioning and demolition.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Methil Power Station (former) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T484181 — 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: Methil Power Station (former) Context triple: [Methil, contains, Methil Power Station (former)]
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A.
Hope Creek Nuclear Generating Station
Hope Creek Nuclear Generating Station is a single-unit boiling water nuclear power plant located in Lower Alloways Creek Township, New Jersey, that generates electricity for the regional grid.
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B.
Hunterston Port and Resource Centre
Hunterston Port and Resource Centre is a major deep-water industrial and logistics hub on the west coast of Scotland, focused on port operations, energy, and resource-related activities.
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C.
Sulphur Works
Sulphur Works is a hydrothermal area in Lassen Volcanic National Park known for its boiling mud pots, steam vents, and strong sulfurous fumes.
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D.
Tracy Pumping Plant
Tracy Pumping Plant is a major water pumping facility in California that lifts and conveys water from the Sacramento–San Joaquin Delta into the Central Valley Project’s distribution system.
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E.
Jones Pumping Plant
Jones Pumping Plant is a major water pumping facility in California’s Central Valley that lifts and conveys water from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta into the Central Valley Project’s distribution system.
- 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: Methil Power Station (former) Target entity description: Methil Power Station (former) was a coal-fired power station in Methil, Fife, Scotland, that operated for much of the 20th century before its decommissioning and demolition.
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A.
Hope Creek Nuclear Generating Station
Hope Creek Nuclear Generating Station is a single-unit boiling water nuclear power plant located in Lower Alloways Creek Township, New Jersey, that generates electricity for the regional grid.
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B.
Hunterston Port and Resource Centre
Hunterston Port and Resource Centre is a major deep-water industrial and logistics hub on the west coast of Scotland, focused on port operations, energy, and resource-related activities.
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C.
Sulphur Works
Sulphur Works is a hydrothermal area in Lassen Volcanic National Park known for its boiling mud pots, steam vents, and strong sulfurous fumes.
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D.
Tracy Pumping Plant
Tracy Pumping Plant is a major water pumping facility in California that lifts and conveys water from the Sacramento–San Joaquin Delta into the Central Valley Project’s distribution system.
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E.
Jones Pumping Plant
Jones Pumping Plant is a major water pumping facility in California’s Central Valley that lifts and conveys water from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta into the Central Valley Project’s distribution system.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
coal-fired power station
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former power station ⓘ |
| category |
Buildings and structures in Fife
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Coal-fired power stations in Scotland ⓘ Former power stations in the United Kingdom ⓘ |
| country | Scotland ⓘ |
| demolitionReason |
obsolescence
ⓘ
shift away from coal-fired power generation ⓘ |
| energySource | coal ⓘ |
| gridConnection |
National Grid
ⓘ
surface form:
National Grid (Great Britain)
|
| locatedIn |
Fife
ⓘ
Methil ⓘ Scotland ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Firth of Forth ⓘ |
| operationalPeriod | 20th century ⓘ |
| primaryFunction | electricity generation ⓘ |
| status |
decommissioned
ⓘ
demolished ⓘ |
| usedFuel | coal ⓘ |
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: Methil Power Station (former) Description of subject: Methil Power Station (former) was a coal-fired power station in Methil, Fife, Scotland, that operated for much of the 20th century before its decommissioning and demolition.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.