Bywater
E901718
Bywater is a small rural village in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth, known for its inn the Green Dragon and its proximity to Hobbiton in the Shire.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bywater canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11047149 — 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: Bywater Context triple: [The Shire, containsSettlement, Bywater]
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A.
Three Mills
Three Mills is a historic tidal mill complex in East London, known as one of the oldest surviving industrial sites in the city and now used as a heritage and film location.
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B.
Briggate
Briggate is one of the main historic shopping streets in Leeds city centre, known for its major retail stores and pedestrian-friendly layout.
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C.
Southwater
Southwater is a large village and civil parish in West Sussex, England, situated just south of the town of Horsham.
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D.
Paddington Basin
Paddington Basin is a redeveloped canal-side area in central London featuring modern offices, apartments, and waterside public spaces.
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E.
Shadwell Basin
Shadwell Basin is a former dock in East London that has been transformed into a residential and leisure area centered around a large body of water used for recreation and watersports.
- 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: Bywater Target entity description: Bywater is a small rural village in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth, known for its inn the Green Dragon and its proximity to Hobbiton in the Shire.
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A.
Three Mills
Three Mills is a historic tidal mill complex in East London, known as one of the oldest surviving industrial sites in the city and now used as a heritage and film location.
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B.
Briggate
Briggate is one of the main historic shopping streets in Leeds city centre, known for its major retail stores and pedestrian-friendly layout.
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C.
Southwater
Southwater is a large village and civil parish in West Sussex, England, situated just south of the town of Horsham.
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D.
Paddington Basin
Paddington Basin is a redeveloped canal-side area in central London featuring modern offices, apartments, and waterside public spaces.
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E.
Shadwell Basin
Shadwell Basin is a former dock in East London that has been transformed into a residential and leisure area centered around a large body of water used for recreation and watersports.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional village
ⓘ
settlement in Middle-earth ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
The Fellowship of the Ring
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
The Hobbit ⓘ The Lord of the Rings NERFINISHED ⓘ The Return of the King NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithCharacter |
Frodo Baggins
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Lotho Sackville-Baggins NERFINISHED ⓘ Meriadoc Brandybuck NERFINISHED ⓘ Peregrin Took NERFINISHED ⓘ Samwise Gamgee NERFINISHED ⓘ Sharkey (Saruman) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| battleOccurredIn | Battle of Bywater NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| battleOccurredOn | 3 November 3019 Third Age ⓘ |
| createdBy | J. R. R. Tolkien NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| crossedBy | Bywater Road NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| describedAs |
rural village
ⓘ
small village in the Shire ⓘ |
| followsCalendar | Shire Reckoning NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| governedBy | Shire-thain (indirectly) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName | By-water NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasGeographicalFeature |
Bywater Pool
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Bywater Road NERFINISHED ⓘ The Water NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasInn | The Green Dragon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNotableBuilding |
The Green Dragon
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
The Old Mill (near Bywater) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPrimaryEconomicActivity |
agriculture (implied)
ⓘ
innkeeping ⓘ |
| inhabitedBy | Hobbits NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Westron NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedEastOf | Hobbiton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Eriador
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Middle-earth NERFINISHED ⓘ the Shire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeRegion | Westfarthing NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Hobbiton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mentionedIn | The Scouring of the Shire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nearWaterBody |
Bywater Pool
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
The Water ⓘ |
| notableEvent | Battle of Bywater NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | the Shire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| regionType | rural ⓘ |
| timePeriod |
Fourth Age (aftermath references)
ⓘ
Third Age NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| transportRoute | road between Hobbiton and Bywater ⓘ |
| universe | Middle-earth legendarium 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: Bywater Description of subject: Bywater is a small rural village in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth, known for its inn the Green Dragon and its proximity to Hobbiton in the Shire.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.