Sherramuir
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Sherramuir is a historic battlefield site in Scotland, best known as the location of the 1715 Jacobite rising clash between government and Jacobite forces.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Sherramuir canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7314144 — 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: Sherramuir Context triple: [The Battle of Sherramuir, mentionsPlace, Sherramuir]
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A.
Kilmuir
Kilmuir is a small, historic village on the Isle of Skye in Scotland, known for its traditional crofting community and scenic coastal landscapes.
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B.
Northmuir
Northmuir is a small village in the Angus council area of eastern Scotland, situated near the town of Kirriemuir.
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C.
Stracathro
Stracathro is a small rural village in the Angus council area of eastern Scotland, known historically for its nearby Roman camp and early medieval church site.
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D.
Dunnichen
Dunnichen is a small rural village in eastern Scotland, historically noted as a possible site of the Battle of Dunnichen (Nechtansmere) in 685 AD.
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E.
Milngavie
Milngavie is a suburban town on the outskirts of Glasgow in Scotland, known as the traditional starting point of the West Highland Way long-distance walking trail.
- 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: Sherramuir Target entity description: Sherramuir is a historic battlefield site in Scotland, best known as the location of the 1715 Jacobite rising clash between government and Jacobite forces.
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A.
Kilmuir
Kilmuir is a small, historic village on the Isle of Skye in Scotland, known for its traditional crofting community and scenic coastal landscapes.
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B.
Northmuir
Northmuir is a small village in the Angus council area of eastern Scotland, situated near the town of Kirriemuir.
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C.
Stracathro
Stracathro is a small rural village in the Angus council area of eastern Scotland, known historically for its nearby Roman camp and early medieval church site.
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D.
Dunnichen
Dunnichen is a small rural village in eastern Scotland, historically noted as a possible site of the Battle of Dunnichen (Nechtansmere) in 685 AD.
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E.
Milngavie
Milngavie is a suburban town on the outskirts of Glasgow in Scotland, known as the traditional starting point of the West Highland Way long-distance walking trail.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
geographic location
ⓘ
historic battlefield ⓘ |
| associatedPeriod | early 18th century ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Jacobitism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| battleOutcome | indecisive ⓘ |
| battleType | land battle ⓘ |
| belligerent |
British government forces
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Jacobite forces NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| commander |
John Campbell, Duke of Argyll
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
John Erskine, Earl of Mar NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conflict | Jacobite rising of 1715 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Scotland ⓘ |
| eventDate | 13 November 1715 ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName | Sheriffmuir NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMonument | Battle of Sheriffmuir monument NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | historic battlefield site ⓘ |
| languageOfToponym | Scots NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Stirlingshire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Dunblane
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sheriffmuir NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryTheater | War of the Quadruple Alliance context (British Isles front) ⓘ |
| nearbyFeature |
Dunblane–Sheriffmuir road
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sheriffmuir Inn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | Battle of Sheriffmuir NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Central Scotland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| referencedBy | Robert Burns NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| referencedIn | “The Battle of Sherramuir” (song) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | Perthshire and Kinross border area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| terrain | moorland ⓘ |
| tourismType | battlefield tourism site ⓘ |
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: Sherramuir Description of subject: Sherramuir is a historic battlefield site in Scotland, best known as the location of the 1715 Jacobite rising clash between government and Jacobite forces.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.