Great Lakes lightship
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A Great Lakes lightship is a specialized vessel that served as a floating lighthouse, marking hazardous areas and guiding navigation on the Great Lakes before modern aids replaced it.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Great Lakes lightship canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T18209673 — 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: Great Lakes lightship Context triple: [Lightship Huron, category, Great Lakes lightship]
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A.
North Carr Lightship
North Carr Lightship is a historic Scottish lightvessel that served as a floating lighthouse warning ships of the dangerous North Carr rocks off the coast of Fife.
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B.
M/V Tustumena
M/V Tustumena is a rugged Alaska Marine Highway ferry known for serving remote coastal communities and challenging open-ocean routes in the Gulf of Alaska and Aleutian Islands.
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C.
Ambrose Lightship
Ambrose Lightship was a lightship stationed off New York Harbor that served as a critical floating lighthouse guiding ships safely through the Ambrose Channel.
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D.
RV Laurence M. Gould
RV Laurence M. Gould is an American research and supply ice-strengthened vessel that supports scientific missions and logistics in the Antarctic Peninsula region.
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E.
M/V Hubbard
M/V Hubbard is an Alaska Marine Highway System ferry that serves coastal communities in the state of Alaska as part of its state-operated marine transportation network.
- 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: Great Lakes lightship Target entity description: A Great Lakes lightship is a specialized vessel that served as a floating lighthouse, marking hazardous areas and guiding navigation on the Great Lakes before modern aids replaced it.
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A.
North Carr Lightship
North Carr Lightship is a historic Scottish lightvessel that served as a floating lighthouse warning ships of the dangerous North Carr rocks off the coast of Fife.
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B.
M/V Tustumena
M/V Tustumena is a rugged Alaska Marine Highway ferry known for serving remote coastal communities and challenging open-ocean routes in the Gulf of Alaska and Aleutian Islands.
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C.
Ambrose Lightship
Ambrose Lightship was a lightship stationed off New York Harbor that served as a critical floating lighthouse guiding ships safely through the Ambrose Channel.
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D.
RV Laurence M. Gould
RV Laurence M. Gould is an American research and supply ice-strengthened vessel that supports scientific missions and logistics in the Antarctic Peninsula region.
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E.
M/V Hubbard
M/V Hubbard is an Alaska Marine Highway System ferry that serves coastal communities in the state of Alaska as part of its state-operated marine transportation network.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.