Droichead Átha
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Droichead Átha is the Irish name for Drogheda, a historic town and major port on the River Boyne in County Louth, Ireland.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Droichead Átha canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10470427 — 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: Droichead Átha Context triple: [Drogheda, IrishName, Droichead Átha]
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A.
An Tairbeart
An Tairbeart is the Scottish Gaelic name for the village of Tarbert on the Isle of Harris in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland.
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B.
Bairoil
Bairoil is a small town in central Wyoming known historically for its oil production and rural, high-desert setting.
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C.
Uamh Fhraing
Uamh Fhraing is a sea cave on the Isle of Eigg in Scotland, historically notorious as the site of a 16th-century massacre of the island’s inhabitants.
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D.
Tullow
Tullow is a small market town in County Carlow, Ireland, situated on the River Slaney and serving as a local commercial and community center for the surrounding rural area.
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E.
Dál gCais
Dál gCais was a powerful medieval Irish dynasty from Munster, best known for producing the High King Brian Boru and challenging Viking and rival Irish powers.
- 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: Droichead Átha Target entity description: Droichead Átha is the Irish name for Drogheda, a historic town and major port on the River Boyne in County Louth, Ireland.
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A.
An Tairbeart
An Tairbeart is the Scottish Gaelic name for the village of Tarbert on the Isle of Harris in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland.
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B.
Bairoil
Bairoil is a small town in central Wyoming known historically for its oil production and rural, high-desert setting.
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C.
Uamh Fhraing
Uamh Fhraing is a sea cave on the Isle of Eigg in Scotland, historically notorious as the site of a 16th-century massacre of the island’s inhabitants.
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D.
Tullow
Tullow is a small market town in County Carlow, Ireland, situated on the River Slaney and serving as a local commercial and community center for the surrounding rural area.
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E.
Dál gCais
Dál gCais was a powerful medieval Irish dynasty from Munster, best known for producing the High King Brian Boru and challenging Viking and rival Irish powers.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
port city
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settlement ⓘ town ⓘ |
| besiegedBy | Oliver Cromwell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Ireland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distanceFromDublin | about 50 kilometres ⓘ |
| governedBy | Louth County Council NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| grantedRoyalCharter | medieval period ⓘ |
| hasEnglishName | Drogheda NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasEtymology | name means "bridge of the ford" in Irish ⓘ |
| hasHistoricalSignificance |
important trading port
ⓘ
medieval town ⓘ |
| hasIndustry |
manufacturing
ⓘ
port and logistics ⓘ services ⓘ |
| hasIrishName | Droichead Átha NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLandmark |
Boyne Viaduct
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Millmount Fort NERFINISHED ⓘ St Laurence Gate NERFINISHED ⓘ St Peter's Church Drogheda NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPostalCode | A92 ⓘ |
| hasRailLine | Dublin–Belfast line NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasReligiousSite | Shrine of St Oliver Plunkett NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRoadConnection |
M1 motorway
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
N51 road NERFINISHED ⓘ R132 road NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTransport |
bus services
ⓘ
railway station ⓘ seaport ⓘ |
| isCountyTownOf | County Louth NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isOneOfLargestTownsIn | Ireland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn | County Louth NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | Leinster NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedNorthOf | Dublin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOnRiver | River Boyne NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nearbyArchaeologicalSite |
Brú na Bóinne
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Dowth NERFINISHED ⓘ Knowth NERFINISHED ⓘ Newgrange NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableEvent | Siege of Drogheda 1649 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| populationApproximate | 40000 ⓘ |
| sportsClub |
Boyne RFC
NERFINISHED
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Drogheda United F.C. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timeZone | Western European Time NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timeZoneDST | Irish Standard Time NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| twinnedWith |
Braga
NERFINISHED
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Salamanca 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: Droichead Átha Description of subject: Droichead Átha is the Irish name for Drogheda, a historic town and major port on the River Boyne in County Louth, Ireland.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.