Wolsingham
E747184
Wolsingham is a small historic market town and civil parish in County Durham, England, situated in the rural valley of Weardale.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Wolsingham canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8637744 — 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: Wolsingham Context triple: [Weardale, hasSettlement, Wolsingham]
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A.
Watlington
Watlington is a small historic market town in Oxfordshire, England, known for its traditional high street and location near the Chiltern Hills.
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B.
Watlington
Watlington is a residential suburb located within the city of Timaru in the Canterbury region of New Zealand.
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C.
Watlington
Watlington is a village in Norfolk, England, known for its rural character and location near the River Great Ouse.
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D.
Hensingham
Hensingham is a residential suburb of Whitehaven in Cumbria, England, known for its local community facilities and proximity to the town’s centre.
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E.
Bassingham
Bassingham is a small rural village and civil parish in the North Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England.
- 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: Wolsingham Target entity description: Wolsingham is a small historic market town and civil parish in County Durham, England, situated in the rural valley of Weardale.
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A.
Watlington
Watlington is a small historic market town in Oxfordshire, England, known for its traditional high street and location near the Chiltern Hills.
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B.
Watlington
Watlington is a residential suburb located within the city of Timaru in the Canterbury region of New Zealand.
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C.
Watlington
Watlington is a village in Norfolk, England, known for its rural character and location near the River Great Ouse.
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D.
Hensingham
Hensingham is a residential suburb of Whitehaven in Cumbria, England, known for its local community facilities and proximity to the town’s centre.
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E.
Bassingham
Bassingham is a small rural village and civil parish in the North Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
market town
ⓘ
settlement ⓘ |
| ceremonialCounty | County Durham NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | England ⓘ |
| governingBody | Durham County Council NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAnnualEvent | Wolsingham Show NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCategory |
Civil parishes in County Durham
ⓘ
Towns in County Durham ⓘ Weardale NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasDialCode | 01388 ⓘ |
| hasEducationalInstitution | Wolsingham School NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
market place
ⓘ
rural surroundings ⓘ stone-built houses ⓘ |
| hasMarketCharter | yes ⓘ |
| hasNearbyCity |
Durham
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Newcastle upon Tyne NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNearbyTown |
Crook
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Stanhope NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasOSGridReference | NZ075375 ⓘ |
| hasParishStatus | civil parish ⓘ |
| hasPostcodeArea | DL ⓘ |
| hasPostcodeDistrict | DL13 ⓘ |
| hasPostTown | Bishop Auckland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPrimaryIndustryHistorically |
agriculture
ⓘ
ironworking ⓘ lead mining ⓘ |
| hasRailwayStationStatus | former railway station ⓘ |
| hasReligiousBuilding | St Mary and St Stephen Church NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRiver | River Wear NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicCounty | County Durham NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isDescribedAs |
historic town
ⓘ
small town ⓘ |
| isInValley | Weardale NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isOnRiver | River Wear NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
County Durham
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
North East England ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ Weardale NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | North East England ⓘ |
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: Wolsingham Description of subject: Wolsingham is a small historic market town and civil parish in County Durham, England, situated in the rural valley of Weardale.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.