Vidlin, Shetland
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Vidlin is a small rural settlement on Mainland Shetland in Scotland, serving as a local hub and ferry terminal for routes to nearby islands such as Whalsay.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Vidlin, Shetland canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9546442 — 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: Vidlin, Shetland Context triple: [Whalsay, Shetland, hasFerryConnectionTo, Vidlin, Shetland]
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A.
Sanday
Sanday is one of the Orkney Islands of Scotland, known for its long sandy beaches, low-lying fertile farmland, and important archaeological sites.
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B.
Bressay
Bressay is an inhabited island in the Shetland archipelago of Scotland, known for its rugged coastline, historic lighthouse, and views over Lerwick.
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C.
Rousay
Rousay is a small, archaeologically rich island in Orkney, Scotland, noted for its numerous prehistoric sites and scenic coastal landscapes.
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D.
Whalsay, Shetland
Whalsay, Shetland is a small inhabited island in the Shetland archipelago of Scotland, known for its fishing community and rugged North Atlantic landscape.
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E.
Crail
Crail is a historic fishing village and popular tourist destination on the East Neuk of Fife in eastern Scotland, known for its picturesque harbour and traditional stone cottages.
- 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: Vidlin, Shetland Target entity description: Vidlin is a small rural settlement on Mainland Shetland in Scotland, serving as a local hub and ferry terminal for routes to nearby islands such as Whalsay.
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A.
Sanday
Sanday is one of the Orkney Islands of Scotland, known for its long sandy beaches, low-lying fertile farmland, and important archaeological sites.
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B.
Bressay
Bressay is an inhabited island in the Shetland archipelago of Scotland, known for its rugged coastline, historic lighthouse, and views over Lerwick.
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C.
Rousay
Rousay is a small, archaeologically rich island in Orkney, Scotland, noted for its numerous prehistoric sites and scenic coastal landscapes.
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D.
Whalsay, Shetland
Whalsay, Shetland is a small inhabited island in the Shetland archipelago of Scotland, known for its fishing community and rugged North Atlantic landscape.
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E.
Crail
Crail is a historic fishing village and popular tourist destination on the East Neuk of Fife in eastern Scotland, known for its picturesque harbour and traditional stone cottages.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
settlement
ⓘ
village ⓘ |
| civilParish | Lunnasting NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Scotland ⓘ |
| dialingCode | 01595 ⓘ |
| distanceTo | about 17 miles northeast of Lerwick ⓘ |
| ferryRouteTo |
Out Skerries
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Whalsay NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| geographicFeature | coastal settlement ⓘ |
| hasAmenity |
community hall
ⓘ
marina ⓘ pier ⓘ post office ⓘ shop ⓘ |
| hasChurch | Vidlin Kirk NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFerryTerminal | Vidlin ferry terminal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasHarbour | Vidlin harbour NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLocalEconomyActivity |
crofting
ⓘ
fishing ⓘ small-scale tourism ⓘ |
| hasNearbyWaterBody |
North Sea
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Vidlin Voe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPrimarySchool | Lunnasting Primary School NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRoadConnection | B9071 road NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| lieutenancyArea | Shetland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| localDialect | Shetland dialect of Scots ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Mainland, Shetland
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Shetland NERFINISHED ⓘ Shetland Islands NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeTerritory | Shetland Islands Council area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone |
British Summer Time
ⓘ
UTC±00:00 ⓘ |
| locatedOnIsland | Mainland, Shetland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nearbyIsland |
Out Skerries
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Whalsay NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| OSGridReference | HU437652 ⓘ |
| partOf |
Mainland, Shetland
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Scotland ⓘ |
| postalTown | SHETLAND NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| postcodeArea | ZE NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| postcodeDistrict | ZE2 ⓘ |
| region | Northern Isles NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| role | local hub for surrounding rural area ⓘ |
| traditionalCounty | Shetland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| unitaryAuthority | Shetland Islands NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Vidlin, Shetland Description of subject: Vidlin is a small rural settlement on Mainland Shetland in Scotland, serving as a local hub and ferry terminal for routes to nearby islands such as Whalsay.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.