Ark
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Ark was one of the two ships that carried the first group of English settlers to establish the Maryland colony in North America in the 17th century.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ark canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3069022 — 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: Ark Context triple: [Colony of Maryland, shipsOfFirstExpedition, Ark]
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Andre
Andre is the given name of Andre Reed, a former American football wide receiver best known for his long career with the Buffalo Bills in the NFL.
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B.
ARC
ARC is a family of configurable 32-bit RISC processor architectures commonly used in embedded and SoC designs.
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ARC
ARC is the commonly used acronym for the Augmentation Research Center, a pioneering research group known for its early work on interactive computing and human–computer interaction.
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Aaron
Aaron is a prominent biblical figure known as Moses’ brother and the first high priest of the Israelites.
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E.
Arki
Arki is a small, sparsely populated Greek island in the Aegean Sea, known for its quiet beaches and traditional fishing community.
- 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: Ark Target entity description: Ark was one of the two ships that carried the first group of English settlers to establish the Maryland colony in North America in the 17th century.
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A.
Andre
Andre is the given name of Andre Reed, a former American football wide receiver best known for his long career with the Buffalo Bills in the NFL.
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B.
ARC
ARC is a family of configurable 32-bit RISC processor architectures commonly used in embedded and SoC designs.
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C.
ARC
ARC is the commonly used acronym for the Augmentation Research Center, a pioneering research group known for its early work on interactive computing and human–computer interaction.
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D.
Aaron
Aaron is a prominent biblical figure known as Moses’ brother and the first high priest of the Israelites.
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E.
Arki
Arki is a small, sparsely populated Greek island in the Aegean Sea, known for its quiet beaches and traditional fishing community.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (34)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
English sailing ship
ⓘ
colonial transport ship ⓘ ship ⓘ |
| arrivalRegion |
North America
ⓘ
Province of Maryland ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Cecil Calvert 2nd Baron Baltimore
ⓘ
surface form:
Cecil Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore
Colonial America ⓘ
surface form:
English colonization of North America
Lord Baltimore’s Maryland expedition ⓘ Colony of Maryland ⓘ
surface form:
Maryland colony
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| carried |
Catholic settlers
ⓘ
English settlers ⓘ Protestant settlers ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Kingdom of England ⓘ |
| departureRegion | England ⓘ |
| destination |
Chesapeake Bay region
ⓘ
Colony of Maryland ⓘ
surface form:
Maryland colony
|
| hasCompanionShip |
The Dove
ⓘ
surface form:
Dove
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| hasHistoricalRole | transport for founding settlers of Maryland ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | European colonization of the Americas ⓘ |
| languageOfCrew | English ⓘ |
| locatedInTime | 17th century ⓘ |
| namedAfter | biblical Ark ⓘ |
| notableFor |
carrying first group of English settlers to Maryland
ⓘ
role in founding of Maryland colony ⓘ |
| oneOf | two ships in Maryland founding expedition ⓘ |
| operatedBy | English colonists ⓘ |
| operationalStatus | historical ship (no longer extant) ⓘ |
| partOf | Maryland colonial expedition ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
histories of early Maryland
ⓘ
studies of English colonial voyages ⓘ |
| usedFor |
establishing colony
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transatlantic voyage ⓘ transporting settlers ⓘ |
| voyageType | Atlantic crossing ⓘ |
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: Ark Description of subject: Ark was one of the two ships that carried the first group of English settlers to establish the Maryland colony in North America in the 17th century.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
John Clive