Ardoch Burn
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Ardoch Burn is a small Scottish watercourse that flows past Doune Castle in Stirling, contributing to the castle’s historic defensive setting and landscape.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ardoch Burn canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7178787 — 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: Ardoch Burn Context triple: [Doune Castle, locatedOnWater, Ardoch Burn]
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A.
Auldhouse Burn
Auldhouse Burn is a small stream in Glasgow, Scotland, that flows through the city’s south side before joining the White Cart Water.
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B.
Legbrannock Burn
Legbrannock Burn is a small stream in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, that forms part of the local river system feeding into the South Calder Water.
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C.
Swilcan Burn
Swilcan Burn is a small stream running through the Old Course at St Andrews in Scotland, famous for its association with the historic Swilcan Bridge and the game of golf.
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D.
Barvick Burn
Barvick Burn is a small stream in Scotland that serves as one of the tributaries feeding into the River Earn.
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E.
Castlecary Burn
Castlecary Burn is a small Scottish watercourse that flows through the village of Castlecary before joining the River Carron.
- 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: Ardoch Burn Target entity description: Ardoch Burn is a small Scottish watercourse that flows past Doune Castle in Stirling, contributing to the castle’s historic defensive setting and landscape.
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A.
Auldhouse Burn
Auldhouse Burn is a small stream in Glasgow, Scotland, that flows through the city’s south side before joining the White Cart Water.
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B.
Legbrannock Burn
Legbrannock Burn is a small stream in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, that forms part of the local river system feeding into the South Calder Water.
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C.
Swilcan Burn
Swilcan Burn is a small stream running through the Old Course at St Andrews in Scotland, famous for its association with the historic Swilcan Bridge and the game of golf.
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D.
Barvick Burn
Barvick Burn is a small stream in Scotland that serves as one of the tributaries feeding into the River Earn.
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E.
Castlecary Burn
Castlecary Burn is a small Scottish watercourse that flows through the village of Castlecary before joining the River Carron.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (19)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | watercourse ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Doune NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| contributesTo |
Doune Castle defensive setting
ⓘ
Doune Castle landscape ⓘ |
| country | Scotland ⓘ |
| featureOf | Doune Castle surroundings ⓘ |
| flowsPast | Doune Castle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLanguageOfName |
Scots
ⓘ
Scottish Gaelic NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNotableSiteAlongCourse | Doune Castle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Stirling
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
central Scotland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOnContinent | Europe ⓘ |
| naturalFeatureType | freshwater stream ⓘ |
| near | village of Doune NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Scottish river system ⓘ |
| region | Stirling council area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedHistoricallyFor | castle defence ⓘ |
| watercourseType | small burn ⓘ |
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: Ardoch Burn Description of subject: Ardoch Burn is a small Scottish watercourse that flows past Doune Castle in Stirling, contributing to the castle’s historic defensive setting and landscape.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.