Hornell, New York, United States
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Hornell, New York, United States is a small city in Steuben County known historically as a railroad hub and as the birthplace of actor Bill Pullman.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Hornell, New York | 2 |
| Hornell, New York, United States canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4013637 — 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: Hornell, New York, United States Context triple: [Bill Pullman, placeOfBirth, Hornell, New York, United States]
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A.
Niskayuna, New York, United States
Niskayuna, New York, United States is a suburban town near Schenectady known for its strong public schools, residential character, and as the hometown of Airbnb co-founder Brian Chesky.
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B.
Corning, New York
Corning, New York is a small city in Steuben County best known as the home of Corning Incorporated and the Corning Museum of Glass.
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C.
Herkimer, New York, United States
Herkimer, New York, United States is a small village in the Mohawk Valley of central New York known historically for its role in early American settlement and nearby Herkimer diamond quartz mines.
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D.
Honeoye, New York
Honeoye, New York is a small hamlet in Ontario County best known as the birthplace of Helen Pitts Douglass, the suffragist and second wife of Frederick Douglass.
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E.
Valhalla, New York
Valhalla, New York is a hamlet in the town of Mount Pleasant in Westchester County, known for its suburban character and several notable cemeteries and memorial sites.
- 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: Hornell, New York, United States Target entity description: Hornell, New York, United States is a small city in Steuben County known historically as a railroad hub and as the birthplace of actor Bill Pullman.
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A.
Niskayuna, New York, United States
Niskayuna, New York, United States is a suburban town near Schenectady known for its strong public schools, residential character, and as the hometown of Airbnb co-founder Brian Chesky.
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B.
Corning, New York
Corning, New York is a small city in Steuben County best known as the home of Corning Incorporated and the Corning Museum of Glass.
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C.
Herkimer, New York, United States
Herkimer, New York, United States is a small village in the Mohawk Valley of central New York known historically for its role in early American settlement and nearby Herkimer diamond quartz mines.
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D.
Honeoye, New York
Honeoye, New York is a small hamlet in Ontario County best known as the birthplace of Helen Pitts Douglass, the suffragist and second wife of Frederick Douglass.
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E.
Valhalla, New York
Valhalla, New York is a hamlet in the town of Mount Pleasant in Westchester County, known for its suburban character and several notable cemeteries and memorial sites.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Hornell, New York, United States Description of subject: Hornell, New York, United States is a small city in Steuben County known historically as a railroad hub and as the birthplace of actor Bill Pullman.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
R44 subway cars
this entity surface form:
Hornell, New York
this entity surface form:
Hornell, New York
subject surface form:
Bill Pullman