Amherst, New York
E140201
Amherst, New York is a suburban town near Buffalo known for hosting major educational and nonprofit institutions, including the headquarters of the Center for Inquiry.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Amherst, New York canonical | 21 |
| Town of Amherst, New York | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T308414 — 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: Amherst, New York Context triple: [Center for Inquiry, headquartersLocation, Amherst, New York]
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Pendleton, New York
Pendleton, New York is a small suburban-rural town in Niagara County in Western New York, situated northeast of Buffalo.
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B.
Auburn, New York
Auburn, New York is a small city in central New York State historically known as a 19th-century publishing center and the site of Auburn Prison.
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C.
Pawling
Pawling is a small town and village in southeastern New York State known for its rural character, historic charm, and location within Dutchess County.
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D.
Buchanan, New York
Buchanan, New York is a small village in northern Westchester County along the Hudson River, known for its residential character and proximity to major transportation routes.
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E.
Smithtown, New York
Smithtown, New York is a suburban town on the North Shore of Long Island in Suffolk County, known for its residential communities, schools, and local parks.
- 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: Amherst, New York Target entity description: Amherst, New York is a suburban town near Buffalo known for hosting major educational and nonprofit institutions, including the headquarters of the Center for Inquiry.
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A.
Pendleton, New York
Pendleton, New York is a small suburban-rural town in Niagara County in Western New York, situated northeast of Buffalo.
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B.
Auburn, New York
Auburn, New York is a small city in central New York State historically known as a 19th-century publishing center and the site of Auburn Prison.
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C.
Pawling
Pawling is a small town and village in southeastern New York State known for its rural character, historic charm, and location within Dutchess County.
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D.
Buchanan, New York
Buchanan, New York is a small village in northern Westchester County along the Hudson River, known for its residential character and proximity to major transportation routes.
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E.
Smithtown, New York
Smithtown, New York is a suburban town on the North Shore of Long Island in Suffolk County, known for its residential communities, schools, and local parks.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: Amherst, New York Description of subject: Amherst, New York is a suburban town near Buffalo known for hosting major educational and nonprofit institutions, including the headquarters of the Center for Inquiry.
Referenced by (28)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Town of Amherst, New York
this entity surface form:
Town of Amherst, New York
this entity surface form:
Town of Amherst, New York
subject surface form:
Interstate 290 (New York)
this entity surface form:
Town of Amherst, New York
this entity surface form:
Town of Amherst, New York
this entity surface form:
Town of Amherst, New York
subject surface form:
Committee for Skeptical Inquiry
this entity surface form:
Town of Amherst, New York