Sandwell
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Sandwell is a metropolitan borough in the West Midlands of England, forming part of the Birmingham conurbation and encompassing several former industrial towns.
All labels observed (8)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sandwell canonical | 15 |
| West Bromwich | 15 |
| Metropolitan Borough of Sandwell | 3 |
| Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council | 2 |
| Wednesbury | 2 |
| Borough of Sandwell | 1 |
| County Borough of West Bromwich | 1 |
| Smethwick | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T585887 — 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: Sandwell Context triple: [West Midlands, containsAdministrativeTerritory, Sandwell]
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A.
Stockport
Stockport is a large town in Greater Manchester, England, situated southeast of central Manchester and forming part of the wider Manchester urban area.
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B.
Wolverhampton
Wolverhampton is a large industrial city in England’s West Midlands, known historically for its role in the coal, steel, and manufacturing industries.
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C.
Wythenshawe
Wythenshawe is a large suburban area in south Manchester, England, known for its extensive housing estates, green spaces, and proximity to Manchester Airport.
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D.
Timperley
Timperley is a suburban village within the Metropolitan Borough of Trafford in Greater Manchester, England, known for its residential character and commuter links to Manchester.
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E.
Halewood
Halewood is a town in Merseyside, England, situated on the outskirts of Liverpool and functioning largely as a residential and commuter community.
- 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: Sandwell Target entity description: Sandwell is a metropolitan borough in the West Midlands of England, forming part of the Birmingham conurbation and encompassing several former industrial towns.
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A.
Stockport
Stockport is a large town in Greater Manchester, England, situated southeast of central Manchester and forming part of the wider Manchester urban area.
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B.
Wolverhampton
Wolverhampton is a large industrial city in England’s West Midlands, known historically for its role in the coal, steel, and manufacturing industries.
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C.
Wythenshawe
Wythenshawe is a large suburban area in south Manchester, England, known for its extensive housing estates, green spaces, and proximity to Manchester Airport.
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D.
Timperley
Timperley is a suburban village within the Metropolitan Borough of Trafford in Greater Manchester, England, known for its residential character and commuter links to Manchester.
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E.
Halewood
Halewood is a town in Merseyside, England, situated on the outskirts of Liverpool and functioning largely as a residential and commuter community.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
local government district
ⓘ
metropolitan borough ⓘ |
| borderedBy |
Birmingham
ⓘ
Dudley ⓘ Walsall ⓘ Wolverhampton ⓘ |
| ceremonialCounty | West Midlands ⓘ |
| contains |
Oldbury
ⓘ
Rowley Regis ⓘ Sandwell self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Smethwick
Tipton ⓘ Sandwell self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Wednesbury
Sandwell self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
West Bromwich
|
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| dateEstablished | 1974 ⓘ |
| establishedBy | Local Government Act 1972 ⓘ |
| formedFrom |
County Borough of Warley
ⓘ
Sandwell self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
County Borough of West Bromwich
Oldbury ⓘ Rowley Regis ⓘ Smethwick ⓘ Tipton ⓘ Sandwell self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Wednesbury
|
| governingBody |
Sandwell
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council
|
| governmentType | metropolitan borough council ⓘ |
| hasAdministrativeCentre | Oldbury ⓘ |
| hasAttraction |
Sandwell Park Farm
ⓘ
Sandwell Valley Country Park ⓘ |
| hasOfficialName |
Sandwell
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Metropolitan Borough of Sandwell
|
| hasRailwayStation | Sandwell and Dudley railway station ⓘ |
| hasSettlementType | urban area ⓘ |
| hasUniversityCampus | Sandwell College ⓘ |
| historicalIndustry |
coal mining
ⓘ
ironworks ⓘ manufacturing ⓘ |
| lieutenancyArea | West Midlands ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
England
ⓘ
West Midlands ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Sandwell Priory ⓘ |
| partOf |
Birmingham
ⓘ
surface form:
Birmingham conurbation
Black Country ⓘ West Midlands ⓘ
surface form:
West Midlands metropolitan county
|
| postalCodeArea |
B
ⓘ
DY ⓘ |
| region |
West Midlands
ⓘ
surface form:
West Midlands region
|
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: Sandwell Description of subject: Sandwell is a metropolitan borough in the West Midlands of England, forming part of the Birmingham conurbation and encompassing several former industrial towns.
Referenced by (40)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
West Bromwich
this entity surface form:
West Bromwich
this entity surface form:
West Bromwich
this entity surface form:
Borough of Sandwell
this entity surface form:
Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council
this entity surface form:
County Borough of West Bromwich
this entity surface form:
Wednesbury
this entity surface form:
Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council
this entity surface form:
Metropolitan Borough of Sandwell
this entity surface form:
West Bromwich
this entity surface form:
West Bromwich
this entity surface form:
West Bromwich
this entity surface form:
West Bromwich
this entity surface form:
West Bromwich
this entity surface form:
West Bromwich
this entity surface form:
West Bromwich
this entity surface form:
West Bromwich
this entity surface form:
West Bromwich
this entity surface form:
Metropolitan Borough of Sandwell