York County, Virginia
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York County, Virginia is a historic county on the Virginia Peninsula best known as the site of the decisive American Revolutionary War victory at Yorktown.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| York County, Virginia canonical | 11 |
| York County, Virginia (part, depending on redistricting) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1599055 — 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: York County, Virginia Context triple: [Yorktown, locatedIn, York County, Virginia]
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A.
Madison County, Virginia
Madison County, Virginia is a rural county in the central part of the state, known for its scenic Blue Ridge Mountain landscapes, agriculture, and small-town communities.
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B.
Campbell County, Virginia
Campbell County, Virginia is a largely rural county in the central part of the state, known for its agricultural landscape and proximity to the city of Lynchburg.
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C.
Rockingham County, Virginia
Rockingham County, Virginia is a largely rural county in western Virginia known for its agriculture, scenic landscapes, and proximity to the Shenandoah National Park and George Washington National Forest.
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D.
Washington County, Virginia
Washington County, Virginia is a county in the southwestern part of the U.S. state of Virginia, known for its Appalachian landscape and the independent city of Bristol within its borders.
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E.
Clarke County, Virginia
Clarke County, Virginia is a small, largely rural county in the northern Shenandoah Valley known for its historic towns, scenic landscapes, and agricultural heritage.
- 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: York County, Virginia Target entity description: York County, Virginia is a historic county on the Virginia Peninsula best known as the site of the decisive American Revolutionary War victory at Yorktown.
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A.
Madison County, Virginia
Madison County, Virginia is a rural county in the central part of the state, known for its scenic Blue Ridge Mountain landscapes, agriculture, and small-town communities.
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B.
Campbell County, Virginia
Campbell County, Virginia is a largely rural county in the central part of the state, known for its agricultural landscape and proximity to the city of Lynchburg.
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C.
Rockingham County, Virginia
Rockingham County, Virginia is a largely rural county in western Virginia known for its agriculture, scenic landscapes, and proximity to the Shenandoah National Park and George Washington National Forest.
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D.
Washington County, Virginia
Washington County, Virginia is a county in the southwestern part of the U.S. state of Virginia, known for its Appalachian landscape and the independent city of Bristol within its borders.
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E.
Clarke County, Virginia
Clarke County, Virginia is a small, largely rural county in the northern Shenandoah Valley known for its historic towns, scenic landscapes, and agricultural heritage.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
administrative division
ⓘ
county ⓘ |
| borderedBy |
Gloucester County, Virginia
ⓘ
James City County ⓘ
surface form:
James City County, Virginia
Newport News, Virginia ⓘ Poquoson ⓘ
surface form:
Poquoson, Virginia
Williamsburg ⓘ
surface form:
Williamsburg, Virginia
|
| contains |
Naval Weapons Station Yorktown
ⓘ
Port of York ⓘ U.S. Coast Guard Training Center Yorktown ⓘ York River State Park ⓘ Yorktown Battlefield ⓘ Yorktown National Cemetery ⓘ Yorktown Victory Monument ⓘ Yorktown ⓘ
surface form:
Yorktown, Virginia
segments of Colonial Parkway ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| economyIncludes |
defense-related employment
ⓘ
military installations ⓘ tourism ⓘ |
| federalDistrict | Virginia's 1st congressional district ⓘ |
| governmentType | county government ⓘ |
| hasAttraction |
Historic Yorktown waterfront
ⓘ
surface form:
Riverwalk Landing in Yorktown
Yorktown Battlefield ⓘ
surface form:
Yorktown Battlefield Visitor Center
|
| hasCoastlineOn |
Chesapeake Bay
ⓘ
York River ⓘ
surface form:
York River estuary
|
| hasEvent |
Siege of Yorktown
ⓘ
surface form:
Siege of Yorktown (1781)
|
| hasHistoricSettlement | colonial-era port of Yorktown ⓘ |
| hasHistoricSignificance |
associated with surrender of British General Charles Cornwallis
ⓘ
site of decisive American Revolutionary War victory in 1781 ⓘ site of the Siege of Yorktown ⓘ |
| hasMajorHighway |
Interstate 64
ⓘ
U.S. Route 17 NERFINISHED ⓘ Virginia State Route 199 ⓘ |
| isOneOf |
oldest counties in Virginia
ⓘ
original shires of Virginia Colony ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Hampton Roads
ⓘ
Virginia Peninsula ⓘ |
| namedFor |
Duke of York
ⓘ
surface form:
James, Duke of York
|
| partOf |
Colonial National Historical Park
ⓘ
Virginia ⓘ
surface form:
Commonwealth of Virginia
Colonial Williamsburg ⓘ
surface form:
Historic Triangle of Virginia
Virginia Beach–Norfolk–Newport News metropolitan area ⓘ York County–Poquoson Public Schools service area ⓘ |
| seat |
Yorktown
ⓘ
surface form:
Yorktown, Virginia
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| state | Virginia ⓘ |
| timeZone | Eastern Time Zone ⓘ |
| traversedBy | York River ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: York County, Virginia Description of subject: York County, Virginia is a historic county on the Virginia Peninsula best known as the site of the decisive American Revolutionary War victory at Yorktown.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
York County, Virginia (part, depending on redistricting)
subject surface form:
Interstate 64 in Virginia
Naval Weapons Station Yorktown
→
locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity
→
York County, Virginia
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subject surface form:
Queen's Creek Cemetery