Hailes
E904299
Hailes is the former name of Colinton, a historic suburb in the southwest of Edinburgh, Scotland.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Hailes canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11093190 — 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: Hailes Context triple: [Colinton, formerlyKnownAs, Hailes]
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A.
Hailes
Hailes is a small historic village in Gloucestershire, England, best known for the ruins of Hailes Abbey and its picturesque Cotswold setting.
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B.
Hilsea
Hilsea is a northern suburb of Portsmouth on Portsea Island in Hampshire, England, known for its residential areas, military history, and transport links including the Hilsea railway station.
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C.
Hawise
Hawise is a medieval European female given name borne by several noblewomen in England and France.
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D.
Hayle
Hayle is a small coastal town and port in west Cornwall, England, situated at the mouth of the Hayle River and known for its industrial heritage and sandy beaches.
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E.
Kyme
Kyme is an American actress best known for her role as Rachel Meadows in Spike Lee's 1988 film "School Daze."
- 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: Hailes Target entity description: Hailes is the former name of Colinton, a historic suburb in the southwest of Edinburgh, Scotland.
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A.
Hailes
Hailes is a small historic village in Gloucestershire, England, best known for the ruins of Hailes Abbey and its picturesque Cotswold setting.
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B.
Hilsea
Hilsea is a northern suburb of Portsmouth on Portsea Island in Hampshire, England, known for its residential areas, military history, and transport links including the Hilsea railway station.
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C.
Hawise
Hawise is a medieval European female given name borne by several noblewomen in England and France.
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D.
Hayle
Hayle is a small coastal town and port in west Cornwall, England, situated at the mouth of the Hayle River and known for its industrial heritage and sandy beaches.
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E.
Kyme
Kyme is an American actress best known for her role as Rachel Meadows in Spike Lee's 1988 film "School Daze."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (18)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
former place name
ⓘ
historical locality ⓘ suburb ⓘ |
| country | Scotland ⓘ |
| formerNameOf | Colinton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFormerName | Hailes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasModernName | Colinton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalRelation | name no longer in common use ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Colinton
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Edinburgh ⓘ Edinburgh ⓘ Scotland ⓘ Scotland ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ southwest Edinburgh ⓘ southwest Edinburgh ⓘ |
| partOf | historic suburb of Edinburgh ⓘ |
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: Hailes Description of subject: Hailes is the former name of Colinton, a historic suburb in the southwest of Edinburgh, Scotland.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.