Washington State Ferries
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Washington State Ferries is the largest ferry system in the United States, operating a network of passenger and vehicle routes across the waterways of Washington State.
All labels observed (11)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T307030 — 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: Washington State Ferries Context triple: [Puget Sound region, hasTransportationAgency, Washington State Ferries]
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Alaska Marine Highway System
The Alaska Marine Highway System is a state-operated ferry network that provides vital passenger and vehicle transportation to coastal communities throughout Alaska and the Pacific Northwest.
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B.
SamTrans
SamTrans is the public bus and paratransit agency serving San Mateo County and parts of the San Francisco Bay Area.
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C.
Port of Seattle
The Port of Seattle is a major Pacific Northwest seaport and aviation hub that manages cargo and cruise terminals as well as Seattle–Tacoma International Airport.
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Port of Tacoma
The Port of Tacoma is a major deep-water seaport in Washington State that serves as a key hub for international container shipping and trade in the Pacific Northwest.
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E.
Cape May–Lewes Ferry
The Cape May–Lewes Ferry is a passenger and vehicle ferry service that crosses the Delaware Bay, connecting Cape May, New Jersey, with Lewes, Delaware.
- 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: Washington State Ferries Target entity description: Washington State Ferries is the largest ferry system in the United States, operating a network of passenger and vehicle routes across the waterways of Washington State.
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A.
Alaska Marine Highway System
The Alaska Marine Highway System is a state-operated ferry network that provides vital passenger and vehicle transportation to coastal communities throughout Alaska and the Pacific Northwest.
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B.
SamTrans
SamTrans is the public bus and paratransit agency serving San Mateo County and parts of the San Francisco Bay Area.
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C.
Port of Seattle
The Port of Seattle is a major Pacific Northwest seaport and aviation hub that manages cargo and cruise terminals as well as Seattle–Tacoma International Airport.
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D.
Port of Tacoma
The Port of Tacoma is a major deep-water seaport in Washington State that serves as a key hub for international container shipping and trade in the Pacific Northwest.
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E.
Cape May–Lewes Ferry
The Cape May–Lewes Ferry is a passenger and vehicle ferry service that crosses the Delaware Bay, connecting Cape May, New Jersey, with Lewes, Delaware.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (66)
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: Washington State Ferries Description of subject: Washington State Ferries is the largest ferry system in the United States, operating a network of passenger and vehicle routes across the waterways of Washington State.
Referenced by (111)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Black Ball Line (Puget Sound)
subject surface form:
Downtown Seattle
subject surface form:
San Juan County, Washington
this entity surface form:
Washington State Ferries system
this entity surface form:
Washington State Ferries system
this entity surface form:
Washington State Ferries system
this entity surface form:
Puget Sound ferry network
this entity surface form:
Washington State Ferries network
this entity surface form:
Washington State Ferries system
this entity surface form:
Washington State Ferries system
this entity surface form:
Ferries of Washington (state)
subject surface form:
MV Hyak
subject surface form:
MV Hyak
this entity surface form:
Washington State Ferries fleet
this entity surface form:
Washington State Ferries fleet
this entity surface form:
Washington State ferry system
subject surface form:
MV Elwha
subject surface form:
MV Elwha
this entity surface form:
Washington State Ferries fleet
subject surface form:
MV Elwha
this entity surface form:
Washington State Ferries network