Skaw
E805247
Skaw is a small coastal settlement on the island of Whalsay in the Shetland Islands of Scotland.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Skaw canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9546428 — 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: Skaw Context triple: [Whalsay, Shetland, hasSettlement, Skaw]
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A.
Skawa
Skawa is a river in southern Poland that flows through the Lesser Poland region before joining the Vistula River.
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B.
Skaw Karen
Skaw Karen is a major dialect of the Sgaw Karen language spoken primarily by the Karen people of Myanmar and Thailand.
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C.
Skaugum
Skaugum is the official country residence of the Norwegian royal family, located in Asker near Oslo.
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D.
Skwentna
Skwentna is a small, remote community in south-central Alaska known as a checkpoint on the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race and for its access to wilderness recreation.
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E.
Skean
Skean is the NATO reporting name for the Soviet R-14 (SS-5) medium-range ballistic missile developed during the Cold War.
- 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: Skaw Target entity description: Skaw is a small coastal settlement on the island of Whalsay in the Shetland Islands of Scotland.
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A.
Skawa
Skawa is a river in southern Poland that flows through the Lesser Poland region before joining the Vistula River.
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B.
Skaw Karen
Skaw Karen is a major dialect of the Sgaw Karen language spoken primarily by the Karen people of Myanmar and Thailand.
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C.
Skaugum
Skaugum is the official country residence of the Norwegian royal family, located in Asker near Oslo.
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D.
Skwentna
Skwentna is a small, remote community in south-central Alaska known as a checkpoint on the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race and for its access to wilderness recreation.
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E.
Skean
Skean is the NATO reporting name for the Soviet R-14 (SS-5) medium-range ballistic missile developed during the Cold War.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human settlement
ⓘ
village ⓘ |
| country | Scotland ⓘ |
| hasCategory |
Populated coastal places in Scotland
ⓘ
Villages in Shetland ⓘ Villages in Whalsay ⓘ |
| hasConstituencyScottishParliament | Shetland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasConstituencyWestminster | Orkney and Shetland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCountrySubdivision | Shetland Islands council area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasDialCode | 01806 ⓘ |
| hasGeographicFeature |
bay
ⓘ
coastline ⓘ voe ⓘ |
| hasIsland | Whalsay NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasIslandGroup | Shetland Islands NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLanguage | English ⓘ |
| hasLieutenancyArea | Shetland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLocalLanguage | Shetland dialect of Scots ⓘ |
| hasNearbyFeature |
East Linga
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Isbister NERFINISHED ⓘ North Voe of Skaw NERFINISHED ⓘ Skaw Taing NERFINISHED ⓘ Skaw Voe NERFINISHED ⓘ Whalsay airstrip NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPostcodeArea | ZE ⓘ |
| hasPostcodeDistrict | ZE2 ⓘ |
| hasRegion | Scottish islands NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasUnitaryAuthority | Shetland Islands Council NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isCoastalSettlement | true ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Great Britain
ⓘ
Northern Isles NERFINISHED ⓘ Scotland ⓘ Shetland NERFINISHED ⓘ Shetland Islands NERFINISHED ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ Whalsay NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedNorthOf | Symbister NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOnCoastOf | North Sea NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf |
Shetland Islands council area
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
civil parish of Nesting ⓘ |
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: Skaw Description of subject: Skaw is a small coastal settlement on the island of Whalsay in the Shetland Islands of Scotland.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.