Mardale
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Mardale was a small Lakeland valley settlement in Cumbria, England, best known for being submerged beneath Haweswater Reservoir in the 1930s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mardale canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7913360 — 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: Mardale Context triple: [High Street, hasNearbySettlement, Mardale]
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A.
Manordale
Manordale is a residential neighbourhood in the former city of Nepean, now part of Ottawa, Ontario, known for its suburban homes and local parks.
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B.
Dryfesdale
Dryfesdale is a historic parish in the Annandale area of Dumfries and Galloway in southern Scotland, known for its rural landscape and long-established ecclesiastical history.
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C.
Marshaw Wyre
Marshaw Wyre is a small river in Lancashire, England, forming one of the headwaters of the River Wyre near the village of Abbeystead.
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D.
Shiremoor
Shiremoor is a village in the Metropolitan Borough of North Tyneside in Tyne and Wear, England, situated near the North Sea coast and forming part of the Tyneside urban area.
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E.
Teesdale
Teesdale is a scenic valley in northern England known for its rugged landscapes, the River Tees, and notable waterfalls such as High Force.
- 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: Mardale Target entity description: Mardale was a small Lakeland valley settlement in Cumbria, England, best known for being submerged beneath Haweswater Reservoir in the 1930s.
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A.
Manordale
Manordale is a residential neighbourhood in the former city of Nepean, now part of Ottawa, Ontario, known for its suburban homes and local parks.
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B.
Dryfesdale
Dryfesdale is a historic parish in the Annandale area of Dumfries and Galloway in southern Scotland, known for its rural landscape and long-established ecclesiastical history.
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C.
Marshaw Wyre
Marshaw Wyre is a small river in Lancashire, England, forming one of the headwaters of the River Wyre near the village of Abbeystead.
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D.
Shiremoor
Shiremoor is a village in the Metropolitan Borough of North Tyneside in Tyne and Wear, England, situated near the North Sea coast and forming part of the Tyneside urban area.
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E.
Teesdale
Teesdale is a scenic valley in northern England known for its rugged landscapes, the River Tees, and notable waterfalls such as High Force.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
former human settlement
ⓘ
valley ⓘ |
| accessPointFor |
Harter Fell
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
High Street (fell) NERFINISHED ⓘ Kidsty Pike NERFINISHED ⓘ Riggindale NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| administrativeArea | Eden District (historic) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cemeteryGravesMovedTo | Shap NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| constructionStartOfReservoir | 1929 ⓘ |
| country | England ⓘ |
| culturalAssociation | Lake District literature ⓘ |
| currentUnder | Haweswater Reservoir NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| demolishedFor | Haweswater Reservoir construction ⓘ |
| drainageBasin | River Lowther NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| drainsTo | River Lowther via Haweswater Beck ⓘ |
| evacuationReason | creation of Haweswater Reservoir ⓘ |
| formerCounty | Westmorland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| formerParishChurchRelocatedTo | Shap NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hadBuilding |
Dun Bull Inn
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Holy Trinity Church, Mardale NERFINISHED ⓘ Mardale Green NERFINISHED ⓘ farmhouses ⓘ stone barns ⓘ |
| hasFeature | Mardale Head NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLake | Haweswater (natural lake, before reservoir expansion) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasReputation | one of the "lost villages" of England ⓘ |
| historicalCountyTownNearby | Appleby-in-Westmorland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
being flooded to create Haweswater Reservoir
ⓘ
lost village beneath reservoir ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Cumbria
ⓘ
Lake District ⓘ North West England ⓘ |
| nearSettlement |
Bampton
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Burnbanks NERFINISHED ⓘ Shap NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Lake District National Park NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | Lakeland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| reservoirCompleted | 1935 ⓘ |
| submergedBy | Haweswater Reservoir NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| submergedFor |
Manchester Corporation water scheme
ⓘ
public water supply ⓘ |
| submergedInDecade | 1930s ⓘ |
| tourism | starting point for fell walking around Haweswater ⓘ |
| transportAccess | minor road from Bampton to Mardale Head ⓘ |
| valleyType | glacial valley ⓘ |
| visibleWhen | water levels are very low ⓘ |
| waterAuthority | Manchester Corporation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Mardale Description of subject: Mardale was a small Lakeland valley settlement in Cumbria, England, best known for being submerged beneath Haweswater Reservoir in the 1930s.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.