Port Royal
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Port Royal is a historic Jamaican town at the mouth of Kingston Harbour, once a notorious 17th-century pirate haven and major Caribbean port.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Port Royal canonical | 6 |
| Port Royal, Jamaica | 2 |
| Town of Port Royal | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2337799 — 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: Port Royal Context triple: [Kingston, hasHistoricArea, Port Royal]
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A.
Port Royal
Port Royal was the principal early French settlement and administrative center in the colony of Acadia in northeastern North America.
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B.
Port Royal, Virginia
Port Royal, Virginia is a small historic town on the Rappahannock River known for its colonial-era roots and Civil War connections.
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C.
Vieux Fort
Vieux Fort is a major town in the south of Saint Lucia, known for its international airport, coastal location, and role as a commercial and transportation hub.
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D.
Port Royal, South Carolina
Port Royal, South Carolina is a small coastal town in Beaufort County known for its historic waterfront, Lowcountry charm, and proximity to major U.S. Marine Corps training facilities.
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E.
Codrington
Codrington is an English surname historically associated with notable figures in the British Royal Navy and colonial administration.
- 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: Port Royal Target entity description: Port Royal is a historic Jamaican town at the mouth of Kingston Harbour, once a notorious 17th-century pirate haven and major Caribbean port.
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A.
Port Royal
Port Royal was the principal early French settlement and administrative center in the colony of Acadia in northeastern North America.
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B.
Port Royal, Virginia
Port Royal, Virginia is a small historic town on the Rappahannock River known for its colonial-era roots and Civil War connections.
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C.
Vieux Fort
Vieux Fort is a major town in the south of Saint Lucia, known for its international airport, coastal location, and role as a commercial and transportation hub.
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D.
Port Royal, South Carolina
Port Royal, South Carolina is a small coastal town in Beaufort County known for its historic waterfront, Lowcountry charm, and proximity to major U.S. Marine Corps training facilities.
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E.
Codrington
Codrington is an English surname historically associated with notable figures in the British Royal Navy and colonial administration.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Port Royal Description of subject: Port Royal is a historic Jamaican town at the mouth of Kingston Harbour, once a notorious 17th-century pirate haven and major Caribbean port.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Port Royal, Jamaica
subject surface form:
West Indies Station
this entity surface form:
Port Royal, Jamaica
this entity surface form:
Town of Port Royal