Portage Bay
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Portage Bay is a small, sheltered arm of Seattle’s Lake Union that serves as a key waterway connecting Lake Washington to the Lake Union–Puget Sound system.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Portage Bay canonical | 12 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1154848 — 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: Portage Bay Context triple: [Lake Washington, outflow, Portage Bay]
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A.
Marquette Bay
Marquette Bay is a small bay on the shore of Lake Superior adjacent to the city of Marquette in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.
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B.
Whiting Bay
Whiting Bay is a coastal village on the Isle of Arran in Scotland, known for its scenic shoreline and views across the Firth of Clyde.
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C.
Little Traverse Bay
Little Traverse Bay is a scenic inlet of Lake Michigan in northern Michigan, known for its picturesque shoreline, resort communities, and recreational boating.
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D.
Jackson Harbor
Jackson Harbor is a small, sheltered harbor and waterfront area on Washington Island in Wisconsin, known as a gateway for boating, fishing, and access to nearby Rock Island.
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E.
Alum Bay
Alum Bay is a coastal bay on the western tip of the Isle of Wight, famous for its multicoloured sand cliffs and views of the nearby Needles rock formations.
- 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: Portage Bay Target entity description: Portage Bay is a small, sheltered arm of Seattle’s Lake Union that serves as a key waterway connecting Lake Washington to the Lake Union–Puget Sound system.
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A.
Marquette Bay
Marquette Bay is a small bay on the shore of Lake Superior adjacent to the city of Marquette in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.
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B.
Whiting Bay
Whiting Bay is a coastal village on the Isle of Arran in Scotland, known for its scenic shoreline and views across the Firth of Clyde.
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C.
Little Traverse Bay
Little Traverse Bay is a scenic inlet of Lake Michigan in northern Michigan, known for its picturesque shoreline, resort communities, and recreational boating.
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D.
Jackson Harbor
Jackson Harbor is a small, sheltered harbor and waterfront area on Washington Island in Wisconsin, known as a gateway for boating, fishing, and access to nearby Rock Island.
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E.
Alum Bay
Alum Bay is a coastal bay on the western tip of the Isle of Wight, famous for its multicoloured sand cliffs and views of the nearby Needles rock formations.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
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: Portage Bay Description of subject: Portage Bay is a small, sheltered arm of Seattle’s Lake Union that serves as a key waterway connecting Lake Washington to the Lake Union–Puget Sound system.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.