St Mary’s, Orkney
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St Mary’s, Orkney is a small village on Mainland Orkney in Scotland, situated on the island’s southern coast and serving as a local community hub overlooking Scapa Flow.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| St Mary’s, Orkney canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7069216 — 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: St Mary’s, Orkney Context triple: [Bay of Clestrain, near, St Mary’s, Orkney]
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A.
Stornoway High Church
Stornoway High Church is a prominent Christian place of worship serving the community of Stornoway on the Isle of Lewis in Scotland.
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B.
Stromness Parish Church
Stromness Parish Church is a historic Church of Scotland parish church serving the coastal town of Stromness in Orkney, Scotland.
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C.
Falkland Parish Church
Falkland Parish Church is a historic Church of Scotland parish church serving the community of Falkland in Fife, Scotland.
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D.
St Andrews Cathedral
St Andrews Cathedral is a ruined medieval cathedral in St Andrews, Scotland, that was once the largest and most important church in the country and a major center of pilgrimage.
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E.
Blackness Parish Church
Blackness Parish Church is a historic Christian church serving the coastal village of Blackness in Scotland, notable for its traditional architecture and role in the local community.
- 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: St Mary’s, Orkney Target entity description: St Mary’s, Orkney is a small village on Mainland Orkney in Scotland, situated on the island’s southern coast and serving as a local community hub overlooking Scapa Flow.
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A.
Stornoway High Church
Stornoway High Church is a prominent Christian place of worship serving the community of Stornoway on the Isle of Lewis in Scotland.
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B.
Stromness Parish Church
Stromness Parish Church is a historic Church of Scotland parish church serving the coastal town of Stromness in Orkney, Scotland.
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C.
Falkland Parish Church
Falkland Parish Church is a historic Church of Scotland parish church serving the community of Falkland in Fife, Scotland.
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D.
St Andrews Cathedral
St Andrews Cathedral is a ruined medieval cathedral in St Andrews, Scotland, that was once the largest and most important church in the country and a major center of pilgrimage.
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E.
Blackness Parish Church
Blackness Parish Church is a historic Christian church serving the coastal village of Blackness in Scotland, notable for its traditional architecture and role in the local community.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human settlement
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populated place ⓘ village ⓘ |
| climate | oceanic climate ⓘ |
| country | Scotland ⓘ |
| distanceToKirkwall | approximately 8 kilometres ⓘ |
| function | local community hub ⓘ |
| governedBy | Orkney Islands Council NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasBodyOfWater | Scapa Flow NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
coastal setting
ⓘ
local community facilities ⓘ residential housing ⓘ |
| hasLanguage |
English
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Scots NERFINISHED ⓘ Scottish Gaelic ⓘ |
| hasNearbyWaterArea |
Atlantic Ocean
NERFINISHED
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North Sea NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasViewOf | Scapa Flow NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Highland and Islands region
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mainland, Orkney NERFINISHED ⓘ Northern Isles NERFINISHED ⓘ Orkney NERFINISHED ⓘ Orkney Islands ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeTerritory | Orkney Islands council area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInCountry | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| locatedInHistoricCounty | Orkney NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Holm, Orkney
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Kirkwall NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOn |
Mainland (Orkney)
NERFINISHED
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island of Mainland, Orkney NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOnCoastOf | southern coast of Mainland, Orkney ⓘ |
| overlooks | Scapa Flow NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | parish of Holm ⓘ |
| region | north of Scotland ⓘ |
| roadAccessVia | A961 road NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timeZone |
British Summer Time
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
UTC±00:00 ⓘ |
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: St Mary’s, Orkney Description of subject: St Mary’s, Orkney is a small village on Mainland Orkney in Scotland, situated on the island’s southern coast and serving as a local community hub overlooking Scapa Flow.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.