Dry Dock No. 1
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Dry Dock No. 1 is a historic 19th-century stone dry dock at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, notable as one of the oldest surviving naval dry docks in the United States.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Dry Dock No. 1 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1331775 — 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: Dry Dock No. 1 Context triple: [Brooklyn Navy Yard, hasHistoricStructure, Dry Dock No. 1]
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A.
Portsmouth Naval Shipyard
Portsmouth Naval Shipyard is a historic U.S. Navy shipbuilding and repair facility located in Kittery, Maine, known especially for constructing and overhauling naval vessels including submarines.
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B.
Eldean Shipyard
Eldean Shipyard is a full-service marina and boatyard located on Lake Macatawa in Michigan, known for its docking, storage, and marine maintenance services.
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C.
Mare Island Naval Shipyard
Mare Island Naval Shipyard was a major U.S. Navy shipbuilding and repair facility in Vallejo, California, notable as one of the first permanent naval shipyards on the West Coast.
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D.
USS Alabama Battleship Memorial Park
USS Alabama Battleship Memorial Park is a historic military attraction in Mobile, Alabama, featuring the World War II battleship USS Alabama, the submarine USS Drum, and various aircraft and military exhibits.
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E.
Portsmouth Naval Base
Portsmouth Naval Base is a major Royal Navy dockyard and headquarters on England’s south coast, serving as one of the UK’s principal naval facilities.
- 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: Dry Dock No. 1 Target entity description: Dry Dock No. 1 is a historic 19th-century stone dry dock at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, notable as one of the oldest surviving naval dry docks in the United States.
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A.
Portsmouth Naval Shipyard
Portsmouth Naval Shipyard is a historic U.S. Navy shipbuilding and repair facility located in Kittery, Maine, known especially for constructing and overhauling naval vessels including submarines.
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B.
Eldean Shipyard
Eldean Shipyard is a full-service marina and boatyard located on Lake Macatawa in Michigan, known for its docking, storage, and marine maintenance services.
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C.
Mare Island Naval Shipyard
Mare Island Naval Shipyard was a major U.S. Navy shipbuilding and repair facility in Vallejo, California, notable as one of the first permanent naval shipyards on the West Coast.
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D.
USS Alabama Battleship Memorial Park
USS Alabama Battleship Memorial Park is a historic military attraction in Mobile, Alabama, featuring the World War II battleship USS Alabama, the submarine USS Drum, and various aircraft and military exhibits.
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E.
Portsmouth Naval Base
Portsmouth Naval Base is a major Royal Navy dockyard and headquarters on England’s south coast, serving as one of the UK’s principal naval facilities.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
dry dock
ⓘ
historic structure ⓘ maritime infrastructure ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Brooklyn Navy Yard
ⓘ
surface form:
Brooklyn Navy Yard industrial complex
United States Navy shipbuilding ⓘ |
| category | naval dry dock ⓘ |
| constructionType | masonry dry dock ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| era | 19th century ⓘ |
| function | to allow ships to be serviced out of the water ⓘ |
| heritageDesignation | historic 19th-century stone dry dock ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | historic naval facility ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Brooklyn
ⓘ
Brooklyn Navy Yard ⓘ New York ⓘ New York City ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| locatedOnWaterbody | East River ⓘ |
| material | stone ⓘ |
| operator | United States Navy ⓘ |
| partOf | Brooklyn Navy Yard ⓘ |
| region | Northeastern United States ⓘ |
| significance | one of the oldest surviving naval dry docks in the United States ⓘ |
| use |
ship construction support
ⓘ
ship repair ⓘ |
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: Dry Dock No. 1 Description of subject: Dry Dock No. 1 is a historic 19th-century stone dry dock at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, notable as one of the oldest surviving naval dry docks in the United States.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.