Boyds Corner, New York
E424308
Boyds Corner, New York is a small hamlet in Putnam County known for its proximity to the Boyds Corner Reservoir, part of New York City's water supply system.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Boyds Corner, New York canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4253756 — 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: Boyds Corner, New York Context triple: [Boyds Corner Reservoir, locatedNear, Boyds Corner, New York]
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A.
Commack Corners
Commack Corners is a local shopping center in Commack, New York, featuring a variety of retail stores and services for area residents.
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B.
Mount Pleasant, New York
Mount Pleasant, New York is a suburban town in Westchester County just north of New York City, known for its residential communities, historic sites, and proximity to major regional transportation and employment centers.
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C.
Waverly, New York
Waverly, New York is a small village in the Southern Tier region near the Pennsylvania border, known historically as a local railroad and industrial hub.
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D.
Bellvale, New York
Bellvale, New York is a small hamlet in Orange County known for its rural character and scenic Hudson Valley surroundings.
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E.
Roxbury, New York
Roxbury, New York is a small town in Delaware County best known as the rural Catskills birthplace of 19th-century railroad magnate and financier Jay Gould.
- 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: Boyds Corner, New York Target entity description: Boyds Corner, New York is a small hamlet in Putnam County known for its proximity to the Boyds Corner Reservoir, part of New York City's water supply system.
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A.
Commack Corners
Commack Corners is a local shopping center in Commack, New York, featuring a variety of retail stores and services for area residents.
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B.
Mount Pleasant, New York
Mount Pleasant, New York is a suburban town in Westchester County just north of New York City, known for its residential communities, historic sites, and proximity to major regional transportation and employment centers.
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C.
Waverly, New York
Waverly, New York is a small village in the Southern Tier region near the Pennsylvania border, known historically as a local railroad and industrial hub.
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D.
Bellvale, New York
Bellvale, New York is a small hamlet in Orange County known for its rural character and scenic Hudson Valley surroundings.
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E.
Roxbury, New York
Roxbury, New York is a small town in Delaware County best known as the rural Catskills birthplace of 19th-century railroad magnate and financier Jay Gould.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (23)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
hamlet
ⓘ
reservoir ⓘ |
| category |
Hamlets in New York (state)
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Hamlets in Putnam County, New York ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| knownFor |
association with New York City water supply system
ⓘ
proximity to Boyds Corner Reservoir ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Putnam County, New York
ⓘ
Town of Kent, New York ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Boyds Corner, New York
self-linksurface differs
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Carmel, New York NERFINISHED ⓘ Kent Cliffs, New York ⓘ |
| near | Boyds Corner Reservoir ⓘ |
| partOf |
Hudson Valley
ⓘ
New York City water supply system ⓘ New York City watershed region ⓘ |
| region | southeastern New York ⓘ |
| servedBy |
New York State Route 301
ⓘ
surface form:
New York State Route 301 (nearby)
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| state | New York ⓘ |
| timeZone | Eastern Time Zone ⓘ |
| UTCOffsetDST | UTC−04:00 ⓘ |
| UTCOffsetStandard | UTC−05:00 ⓘ |
| waterBodyNearby | Boyds Corner Reservoir ⓘ |
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: Boyds Corner, New York Description of subject: Boyds Corner, New York is a small hamlet in Putnam County known for its proximity to the Boyds Corner Reservoir, part of New York City's water supply system.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Boyds Corner Reservoir