Poosie Nansie’s alehouse
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Poosie Nansie’s alehouse is the lively tavern in Mauchline, Scotland, immortalized by Robert Burns as the boisterous gathering place of vagrants and wanderers in his cantata "The Jolly Beggars."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Poosie Nansie’s alehouse canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7246231 — 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: Poosie Nansie’s alehouse Context triple: [The Jolly Beggars, setting, Poosie Nansie’s alehouse]
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A.
Hog’s Head Inn
Hog’s Head Inn is a shabby, somewhat seedy pub in Hogsmeade that serves as a discreet meeting place for secretive and pivotal events in the Harry Potter series.
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B.
Jug Tavern
Jug Tavern was the former name of the city now known as Winder in northeastern Georgia, historically a small railroad and trading community.
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C.
Blind Beggar pub
The Blind Beggar pub is a historic East End London public house in Whitechapel, best known for its association with the Kray twins and local gangland history.
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D.
Garter Inn
Garter Inn is a fictional tavern in Shakespeare’s comedy "The Merry Wives of Windsor," serving as a central setting for Sir John Falstaff’s schemes and misadventures.
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E.
Hungerford’s Tavern
Hungerford’s Tavern was an 18th-century inn and public house in Rockville, Maryland, that served as an early political and social center for the surrounding 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: Poosie Nansie’s alehouse Target entity description: Poosie Nansie’s alehouse is the lively tavern in Mauchline, Scotland, immortalized by Robert Burns as the boisterous gathering place of vagrants and wanderers in his cantata "The Jolly Beggars."
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A.
Hog’s Head Inn
Hog’s Head Inn is a shabby, somewhat seedy pub in Hogsmeade that serves as a discreet meeting place for secretive and pivotal events in the Harry Potter series.
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B.
Jug Tavern
Jug Tavern was the former name of the city now known as Winder in northeastern Georgia, historically a small railroad and trading community.
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C.
Blind Beggar pub
The Blind Beggar pub is a historic East End London public house in Whitechapel, best known for its association with the Kray twins and local gangland history.
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D.
Garter Inn
Garter Inn is a fictional tavern in Shakespeare’s comedy "The Merry Wives of Windsor," serving as a central setting for Sir John Falstaff’s schemes and misadventures.
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E.
Hungerford’s Tavern
Hungerford’s Tavern was an 18th-century inn and public house in Rockville, Maryland, that served as an early political and social center for the surrounding community.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
alehouse
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tavern ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
18th-century Scottish culture
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Mauchline, Robert Burns sites NERFINISHED ⓘ Scottish literature ⓘ |
| country | Scotland ⓘ |
| describedAs |
boisterous gathering place of vagrants and wanderers
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lively tavern ⓘ |
| featuredIn | The Jolly Beggars NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genreContext | Scottish tavern culture ⓘ |
| hasLiterarySignificance |
associated with Robert Burns
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setting of the cantata The Jolly Beggars ⓘ |
| hasPatronType |
itinerant characters
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vagrants ⓘ wanderers ⓘ |
| immortalizedBy | Robert Burns NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfName | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Ayrshire
NERFINISHED
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East Ayrshire NERFINISHED ⓘ Mauchline NERFINISHED ⓘ Scotland ⓘ |
| notableFor | depiction in Robert Burns’s cantata The Jolly Beggars ⓘ |
| partOf | Burns heritage sites in Mauchline NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timePeriodContext | late 18th century ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Poosie Nansie’s alehouse Description of subject: Poosie Nansie’s alehouse is the lively tavern in Mauchline, Scotland, immortalized by Robert Burns as the boisterous gathering place of vagrants and wanderers in his cantata "The Jolly Beggars."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.