Canonmills, Edinburgh
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Canonmills, Edinburgh is a historic district in the north of the city known for its former milling industry, proximity to the Water of Leith, and mix of residential streets and local shops.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Canonmills, Edinburgh canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9324255 — 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: Canonmills, Edinburgh Context triple: [Inverleith, Edinburgh, near, Canonmills, Edinburgh]
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A.
Milton House, Edinburgh
Milton House in Edinburgh is a historic building designed by the 18th-century Scottish architect John Adam.
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B.
Queen Street Mill
Queen Street Mill is a preserved late-19th-century steam-powered weaving mill in Burnley, England, now operating as a museum showcasing the region’s industrial textile heritage.
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C.
Dundas House, Edinburgh
Dundas House, Edinburgh is an 18th-century neoclassical mansion in Scotland’s capital, renowned for its grand Palladian design by architect Sir William Chambers and its later role as the headquarters of the Royal Bank of Scotland.
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D.
Bannatyne MS
Bannatyne MS is a 16th-century Scottish manuscript compiled by George Bannatyne that preserves a major anthology of medieval and early Renaissance Scots poetry.
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E.
Carnegie Hall, Dunfermline
Carnegie Hall, Dunfermline is a historic performing arts venue and community theatre in Dunfermline, Scotland, known for hosting a wide range of music, drama, and cultural events.
- 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: Canonmills, Edinburgh Target entity description: Canonmills, Edinburgh is a historic district in the north of the city known for its former milling industry, proximity to the Water of Leith, and mix of residential streets and local shops.
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A.
Milton House, Edinburgh
Milton House in Edinburgh is a historic building designed by the 18th-century Scottish architect John Adam.
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B.
Queen Street Mill
Queen Street Mill is a preserved late-19th-century steam-powered weaving mill in Burnley, England, now operating as a museum showcasing the region’s industrial textile heritage.
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C.
Dundas House, Edinburgh
Dundas House, Edinburgh is an 18th-century neoclassical mansion in Scotland’s capital, renowned for its grand Palladian design by architect Sir William Chambers and its later role as the headquarters of the Royal Bank of Scotland.
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D.
Bannatyne MS
Bannatyne MS is a 16th-century Scottish manuscript compiled by George Bannatyne that preserves a major anthology of medieval and early Renaissance Scots poetry.
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E.
Carnegie Hall, Dunfermline
Carnegie Hall, Dunfermline is a historic performing arts venue and community theatre in Dunfermline, Scotland, known for hosting a wide range of music, drama, and cultural events.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
district
ⓘ
neighbourhood ⓘ |
| borderedBy |
Broughton, Edinburgh
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Inverleith, Edinburgh NERFINISHED ⓘ New Town, Edinburgh NERFINISHED ⓘ Stockbridge, Edinburgh NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Scotland ⓘ |
| crossedBy | Canonmills Bridge NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| governedBy | City of Edinburgh Council NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAmenity |
cafés
ⓘ
local shops ⓘ pubs ⓘ restaurants ⓘ |
| hasBuildingType | stone tenements ⓘ |
| hasDialCode | 0131 ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
junction of several main roads
ⓘ
mix of tenement housing and modern flats ⓘ small independent businesses ⓘ |
| hasHistoricalUse | milling industry ⓘ |
| hasLandUse |
local shops
ⓘ
residential area ⓘ |
| hasNearbyArea |
Brandon Terrace
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Broughton Road NERFINISHED ⓘ Canonmills Bridge area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNearbyWaterwayPath | Water of Leith Walkway NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPostcodeDistrict |
EH3
ⓘ
EH7 ⓘ |
| hasTransport | Lothian Buses services ⓘ |
| hasWaterFeature | Water of Leith NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalNameOrigin | linked to canons of Holyrood Abbey ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
City of Edinburgh council area
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Edinburgh ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ north Edinburgh ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Water of Leith NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| near |
Inverleith Park
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | New Town (Edinburgh urban area context) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| representedInScottishParliamentBy | Edinburgh Northern and Leith constituency NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| representedInUKParliamentBy | Edinburgh North and Leith constituency NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timeZone | Europe/London ⓘ |
| traversedBy | B900 road NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| utcOffset | +00:00 ⓘ |
| utcOffsetDST | +01:00 ⓘ |
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: Canonmills, Edinburgh Description of subject: Canonmills, Edinburgh is a historic district in the north of the city known for its former milling industry, proximity to the Water of Leith, and mix of residential streets and local shops.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.