Embarcadero, San Francisco
E402984
Embarcadero, San Francisco is a waterfront district along the city’s eastern shoreline known for its historic piers, scenic promenade, and major landmarks like the Ferry Building.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| San Francisco waterfront | 27 |
| Embarcadero, San Francisco canonical | 3 |
| Embarcadero (San Francisco) | 1 |
| Embarcadero area of San Francisco | 1 |
| Embarcadero waterfront of San Francisco | 1 |
| San Francisco eastern waterfront | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3927014 — 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: Embarcadero, San Francisco Context triple: [Piers 30–32, location, Embarcadero, San Francisco]
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A.
Sausalito
Sausalito is a picturesque waterfront city in Northern California known for its hillside homes, art galleries, and views of the San Francisco Bay.
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B.
Point Richmond
Point Richmond is a historic waterfront neighborhood in Richmond, California, known for its small-town charm, Victorian architecture, and views of the San Francisco Bay.
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C.
Downtown San Francisco
Downtown San Francisco is the city’s central urban core, known for its dense mix of financial, commercial, and historic neighborhoods, including iconic hilltop districts and major cultural landmarks.
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D.
Vallejo
Vallejo is a waterfront city in the San Francisco Bay Area known for its former Mare Island Naval Shipyard and diverse, working-class community.
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E.
El Palo Alto
El Palo Alto is a historic coastal redwood tree in California that serves as the namesake and iconic symbol of the city of Palo Alto.
- 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: Embarcadero, San Francisco Target entity description: Embarcadero, San Francisco is a waterfront district along the city’s eastern shoreline known for its historic piers, scenic promenade, and major landmarks like the Ferry Building.
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A.
Sausalito
Sausalito is a picturesque waterfront city in Northern California known for its hillside homes, art galleries, and views of the San Francisco Bay.
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B.
Point Richmond
Point Richmond is a historic waterfront neighborhood in Richmond, California, known for its small-town charm, Victorian architecture, and views of the San Francisco Bay.
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C.
Downtown San Francisco
Downtown San Francisco is the city’s central urban core, known for its dense mix of financial, commercial, and historic neighborhoods, including iconic hilltop districts and major cultural landmarks.
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D.
Vallejo
Vallejo is a waterfront city in the San Francisco Bay Area known for its former Mare Island Naval Shipyard and diverse, working-class community.
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E.
El Palo Alto
El Palo Alto is a historic coastal redwood tree in California that serves as the namesake and iconic symbol of the city of Palo Alto.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (54)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
neighborhood
ⓘ
waterfront district ⓘ |
| adjacentTo |
Bay Bridge
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Financial District (San Francisco) ⓘ
surface form:
Financial District, San Francisco
North Beach, San Francisco ⓘ South Beach (San Francisco) ⓘ
surface form:
South Beach, San Francisco
|
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| hasFeature |
bicycle lanes
ⓘ
historic piers ⓘ public art installations ⓘ scenic promenade ⓘ views of Bay Bridge ⓘ views of San Francisco Bay ⓘ waterfront walkway ⓘ |
| hasLandmark |
Bay Bridge area
ⓘ
surface form:
Bay Bridge Trail eastern terminus vicinity
Embarcadero Center ⓘ Exploratorium at Pier 15 ⓘ
surface form:
Exploratorium
Ferry Building ⓘ
surface form:
Ferry Building Marketplace
Justin Herman Plaza ⓘ Pier 1 ⓘ Pier 14 ⓘ Pier 15 ⓘ Pier 17 ⓘ Pier 19 ⓘ Pier 23 ⓘ Pier 27 ⓘ Pier 29 ⓘ Pier 3 ⓘ Pier 33 ⓘ Pier 39 ⓘ Pier 7 ⓘ Pier 9 ⓘ Ferry Building ⓘ
surface form:
San Francisco Ferry Building
Sue Bierman Park NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTransportationInfrastructure |
Embarcadero roadway
ⓘ
ferry terminals ⓘ streetcar tracks ⓘ |
| historicalUse | port and maritime shipping area ⓘ |
| knownFor |
commuter ferry terminal at Ferry Building
ⓘ
dining ⓘ tourism ⓘ waterfront recreation ⓘ |
| locatedAlong | eastern shoreline of San Francisco ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
California
San Francisco ⓘ |
| locatedOnWaterbody | San Francisco Bay ⓘ |
| partOf |
Northeast Waterfront area
ⓘ
San Francisco Embarcadero waterfront ⓘ
surface form:
San Francisco waterfront
|
| servedBy |
BART Embarcadero Station
ⓘ
surface form:
Embarcadero BART station
F Market & Wharves historic streetcar line ⓘ Muni Metro Embarcadero station ⓘ San Francisco Bay Ferry ⓘ
surface form:
San Francisco Bay Ferry services
|
| traversedBy |
The Embarcadero
ⓘ
surface form:
The Embarcadero (street)
|
| underwent | redevelopment after 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake ⓘ |
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: Embarcadero, San Francisco Description of subject: Embarcadero, San Francisco is a waterfront district along the city’s eastern shoreline known for its historic piers, scenic promenade, and major landmarks like the Ferry Building.
Referenced by (34)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
San Francisco waterfront
this entity surface form:
Embarcadero area of San Francisco
this entity surface form:
San Francisco waterfront
this entity surface form:
San Francisco waterfront
this entity surface form:
San Francisco waterfront
this entity surface form:
San Francisco waterfront
this entity surface form:
San Francisco waterfront
this entity surface form:
San Francisco waterfront
this entity surface form:
San Francisco eastern waterfront
this entity surface form:
Embarcadero waterfront of San Francisco
subject surface form:
Pier 39
this entity surface form:
San Francisco waterfront
this entity surface form:
San Francisco waterfront
this entity surface form:
San Francisco waterfront
subject surface form:
Cupid's Span
this entity surface form:
San Francisco waterfront
this entity surface form:
San Francisco waterfront
this entity surface form:
San Francisco waterfront
Embarcadero Station (BART/Muni Metro nearby terminus area)
→
locatedNear
→
Embarcadero, San Francisco
ⓘ
this entity surface form:
San Francisco waterfront
subject surface form:
South Beach (San Francisco)
this entity surface form:
Embarcadero (San Francisco)
subject surface form:
Pier 1 (San Francisco)
this entity surface form:
San Francisco waterfront
this entity surface form:
San Francisco waterfront
this entity surface form:
San Francisco waterfront
subject surface form:
Drumm Street
this entity surface form:
San Francisco waterfront
this entity surface form:
San Francisco waterfront
this entity surface form:
San Francisco waterfront
this entity surface form:
San Francisco waterfront
subject surface form:
King Street (San Francisco)
this entity surface form:
San Francisco waterfront