White Point Battery
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White Point Battery is a historic coastal artillery fortification and landmark located at the southern tip of the Charleston peninsula in South Carolina.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| East Battery | 3 |
| South Battery | 2 |
| Charleston Harbor Defenses | 1 |
| Charleston waterfront defenses | 1 |
| White Point Battery canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3338289 — 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: White Point Battery Context triple: [The Battery (Charleston), alsoKnownAs, White Point Battery]
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A.
Cove Fort
Cove Fort is a historic 19th-century way station and fort in central Utah that served travelers and mail routes along the Mormon Corridor.
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B.
Fort Hancock
Fort Hancock is a historic former U.S. Army coastal defense installation located on Sandy Hook in New Jersey, now preserved as part of Gateway National Recreation Area.
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C.
Fort Finney
Fort Finney was a late 18th-century U.S. military post on the Ohio River that served as a key site for negotiations and treaties with Native American tribes in the Northwest Territory.
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D.
West Point of the South
West Point of the South is a prestigious state-supported military college in Lexington, Virginia, renowned for its rigorous academic and military training programs.
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E.
Fort Macon
Fort Macon is a 19th-century coastal defense fortification in North Carolina, built as part of the United States’ Third System of seacoast defenses and now preserved as a state park and historic site.
- 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: White Point Battery Target entity description: White Point Battery is a historic coastal artillery fortification and landmark located at the southern tip of the Charleston peninsula in South Carolina.
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A.
Cove Fort
Cove Fort is a historic 19th-century way station and fort in central Utah that served travelers and mail routes along the Mormon Corridor.
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B.
Fort Hancock
Fort Hancock is a historic former U.S. Army coastal defense installation located on Sandy Hook in New Jersey, now preserved as part of Gateway National Recreation Area.
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C.
Fort Finney
Fort Finney was a late 18th-century U.S. military post on the Ohio River that served as a key site for negotiations and treaties with Native American tribes in the Northwest Territory.
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D.
West Point of the South
West Point of the South is a prestigious state-supported military college in Lexington, Virginia, renowned for its rigorous academic and military training programs.
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E.
Fort Macon
Fort Macon is a 19th-century coastal defense fortification in North Carolina, built as part of the United States’ Third System of seacoast defenses and now preserved as a state park and historic site.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
coastal artillery battery
ⓘ
historic military fortification ⓘ landmark ⓘ |
| adjacentTo | White Point Garden ⓘ |
| category |
Coastal fortifications in the United States
ⓘ
Military history of Charleston, South Carolina ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| hasFunction |
artillery emplacement
ⓘ
coastal defense ⓘ |
| hasViewOf |
Charleston Harbor
ⓘ
Fort Sumter area ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | historic site ⓘ |
| isPartOf |
White Point Battery
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Charleston waterfront defenses
|
| locatedAt | southern tip of the Charleston peninsula ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Charleston
ⓘ
Charleston County NERFINISHED ⓘ South Carolina ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Eastern Time Zone ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Charleston Harbor ⓘ |
| locatedOn |
Charleston Peninsula
ⓘ
surface form:
Charleston peninsula
|
| material |
earthworks
ⓘ
masonry ⓘ |
| openToPublic | true ⓘ |
| touristAttraction | true ⓘ |
| usedFor | defense of Charleston ⓘ |
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: White Point Battery Description of subject: White Point Battery is a historic coastal artillery fortification and landmark located at the southern tip of the Charleston peninsula in South Carolina.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
The Battery (Charleston)
subject surface form:
The Battery (Charleston)
this entity surface form:
East Battery
subject surface form:
The Battery (Charleston)
this entity surface form:
South Battery
this entity surface form:
Charleston Harbor Defenses
this entity surface form:
East Battery
this entity surface form:
South Battery
this entity surface form:
East Battery
this entity surface form:
Charleston waterfront defenses