Waterloo, New York
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Waterloo, New York is a village in the Finger Lakes region of upstate New York, known as the birthplace of Memorial Day and as the county seat of Seneca County.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Waterloo, New York canonical | 23 |
| Town of Waterloo, New York | 2 |
| McClintock family of Waterloo, New York | 1 |
| Waterloo town, New York | 1 |
| downtown Waterloo, New York | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3789252 — 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: Waterloo, New York Context triple: [Seneca Falls, New York, locatedEastOf, Waterloo, New York]
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A.
Watertown, New York
Watertown, New York is a small city in northern New York State that serves as the commercial and cultural hub of the surrounding rural region near the Canadian border.
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B.
Stillwater, New York
Stillwater, New York is a small hamlet in the Adirondack region of upstate New York, known for its proximity to Stillwater Reservoir and outdoor recreational opportunities.
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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.
Oswego, New York
Oswego, New York is a small port city on the southeastern shore of Lake Ontario known for its maritime history and heavy lake-effect snowfall.
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E.
Canastota, New York
Canastota, New York is a small village in Madison County best known as the home of the International Boxing Hall of Fame.
- 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: Waterloo, New York Target entity description: Waterloo, New York is a village in the Finger Lakes region of upstate New York, known as the birthplace of Memorial Day and as the county seat of Seneca County.
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A.
Watertown, New York
Watertown, New York is a small city in northern New York State that serves as the commercial and cultural hub of the surrounding rural region near the Canadian border.
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B.
Stillwater, New York
Stillwater, New York is a small hamlet in the Adirondack region of upstate New York, known for its proximity to Stillwater Reservoir and outdoor recreational opportunities.
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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.
Oswego, New York
Oswego, New York is a small port city on the southeastern shore of Lake Ontario known for its maritime history and heavy lake-effect snowfall.
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E.
Canastota, New York
Canastota, New York is a small village in Madison County best known as the home of the International Boxing Hall of Fame.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | village ⓘ |
| areaCode |
315
ⓘ
680 ⓘ |
| celebrates | Memorial Day ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| county |
Seneca County
ⓘ
linked to:
Seneca County, New York
|
| drainageBasin |
Seneca River watershed
ⓘ
linked to:
Seneca River
|
| hasFeature |
Memorial Day commemorative sites
ⓘ
historic downtown district ⓘ |
| hasGovernmentType | village government ⓘ |
| hasHistoricDesignation |
National Historic Landmark (Memorial Day birthplace recognition)
ⓘ
linked to:
National Historic Landmark
|
| knownFor | birthplace of Memorial Day ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
central New York
ⓘ
upstate New York ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Cayuga Lake
ⓘ
Seneca Lake ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Seneca River ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Waterloo, Belgium ⓘ |
| nearbyCity | Geneva, New York ⓘ |
| nearbyVillage | Seneca Falls, New York ⓘ |
| observesDaylightSavingTime | yes ⓘ |
| partOf |
Waterloo town, New York
ⓘ
linked to:
Waterloo, New York
|
| postalCode | 13165 ⓘ |
| region | Finger Lakes ⓘ |
| role | county seat of Seneca County ⓘ |
| state | New York ⓘ |
| timeZone | Eastern Time Zone ⓘ |
| transportation |
served by New York State Route 20
ⓘ
served by New York State Route 5 ⓘ |
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: Waterloo, New York Description of subject: Waterloo, New York is a village in the Finger Lakes region of upstate New York, known as the birthplace of Memorial Day and as the county seat of Seneca County.
Referenced by (28)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Waterloo, New York
subject linked to:
part of Women’s Rights National Historical Park
subject linked to:
Geneva
linked to: Waterloo, New York
subject linked to:
General Edward P. Chapin
subject linked to:
General Edward P. Chapin
subject linked to:
General Edward P. Chapin
linked to: Waterloo, New York
linked to: Waterloo, New York
linked to: Waterloo, New York