Riverside Hospital
E418431
Riverside Hospital was an isolation hospital on North Brother Island in New York City, historically known for treating contagious diseases such as smallpox and for housing the infamous patient "Typhoid Mary."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Riverside Hospital canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4174258 — 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: Riverside Hospital Context triple: [North Brother Island, notableFor, Riverside Hospital]
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A.
Fisher-Titus Medical Center
Fisher-Titus Medical Center is a community hospital and healthcare system serving Norwalk and the surrounding region in north-central Ohio.
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B.
Riddle Hospital
Riddle Hospital is a community hospital and medical center serving patients in Delaware County, Pennsylvania.
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C.
Bayview Medical Center
Bayview Medical Center is a hospital facility that later became part of the Johns Hopkins Health System and is now known as Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center.
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D.
Woodstock Hospital
Woodstock Hospital is a community healthcare facility serving the medical needs of residents in and around Woodstock, Ontario.
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E.
Stephens Memorial Hospital
Stephens Memorial Hospital is a community healthcare facility serving residents of Norway, Maine and the surrounding Oxford Hills region.
- 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: Riverside Hospital Target entity description: Riverside Hospital was an isolation hospital on North Brother Island in New York City, historically known for treating contagious diseases such as smallpox and for housing the infamous patient "Typhoid Mary."
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A.
Fisher-Titus Medical Center
Fisher-Titus Medical Center is a community hospital and healthcare system serving Norwalk and the surrounding region in north-central Ohio.
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B.
Riddle Hospital
Riddle Hospital is a community hospital and medical center serving patients in Delaware County, Pennsylvania.
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C.
Bayview Medical Center
Bayview Medical Center is a hospital facility that later became part of the Johns Hopkins Health System and is now known as Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center.
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D.
Woodstock Hospital
Woodstock Hospital is a community healthcare facility serving the medical needs of residents in and around Woodstock, Ontario.
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E.
Stephens Memorial Hospital
Stephens Memorial Hospital is a community healthcare facility serving residents of Norway, Maine and the surrounding Oxford Hills region.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
hospital
ⓘ
isolation hospital ⓘ |
| access | closed to the general public ⓘ |
| admittedPatient |
Mary Mallon
ⓘ
Typhoid Mary ⓘ
linked to:
Mary Mallon
|
| associatedWith |
North Brother Island
ⓘ
Typhoid Mary case ⓘ public health history of New York City ⓘ |
| borough | The Bronx ⓘ |
| buildingUseAfterClosure | abandoned ⓘ |
| category |
defunct hospitals in New York City
ⓘ
infectious disease hospitals in the United States ⓘ |
| closureReason | decline in need for isolation hospitals ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| hasNotableInmate |
Mary Mallon
ⓘ
Typhoid Mary ⓘ
linked to:
Mary Mallon
|
| heritageStatus | part of an uninhabited island nature sanctuary ⓘ |
| historicalEra |
early 20th century
ⓘ
late 19th century ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
New York City
ⓘ
New York State ⓘ United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| locatedOn | East River ⓘ |
| location | North Brother Island ⓘ |
| notableFor |
housing Typhoid Mary
ⓘ
treating other infectious diseases ⓘ treating smallpox patients ⓘ |
| opened | 1885 ⓘ |
| operatedBy | New York City Department of Health ⓘ |
| ownedBy |
City of New York
ⓘ
linked to:
New York City
|
| partOf |
New York City public hospital system
ⓘ
linked to:
New York City Health + Hospitals
|
| primaryFunction | treatment of contagious diseases ⓘ |
| purpose | isolation of patients with communicable diseases ⓘ |
| replaced | smallpox hospital on Blackwell's Island ⓘ |
| status | closed ⓘ |
| treatsDisease |
diphtheria
ⓘ
measles ⓘ polio ⓘ scarlet fever ⓘ smallpox ⓘ tuberculosis ⓘ typhoid fever ⓘ |
| usedFor |
public health containment
ⓘ
quarantine ⓘ |
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: Riverside Hospital Description of subject: Riverside Hospital was an isolation hospital on North Brother Island in New York City, historically known for treating contagious diseases such as smallpox and for housing the infamous patient "Typhoid Mary."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.