Woods Hole, Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket Steamship Authority
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The Woods Hole, Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket Steamship Authority is a Massachusetts public ferry service that provides essential year-round passenger and vehicle transportation between the mainland and the islands of Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Woods Hole, Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket Steamship Authority canonical | 3 |
| Martha's Vineyard ferry routes | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4462479 — 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: Woods Hole, Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket Steamship Authority Context triple: [Steamship Authority ferries, operatedBy, Woods Hole, Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket Steamship Authority]
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A.
Woods Hole ferry terminal
Woods Hole ferry terminal is a major ferry hub in the village of Woods Hole on Cape Cod, serving as the primary departure point for passenger and vehicle ferries to Martha’s Vineyard and the Elizabeth Islands.
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B.
Fishers Island Ferry District
Fishers Island Ferry District is a public transportation authority that operates ferry services connecting Fishers Island, New York, to the mainland.
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C.
Maine State Ferry Service
The Maine State Ferry Service is a publicly operated ferry system that provides essential transportation between mainland Maine and several of its coastal island communities.
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D.
Casco Bay Lines
Casco Bay Lines is a ferry service operating passenger and vehicle routes among the islands and mainland ports of Casco Bay in Maine.
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E.
Wellfleet
Wellfleet is a coastal town on outer Cape Cod in Massachusetts known for its oysters, beaches, and protected seashore.
- 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: Woods Hole, Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket Steamship Authority Target entity description: The Woods Hole, Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket Steamship Authority is a Massachusetts public ferry service that provides essential year-round passenger and vehicle transportation between the mainland and the islands of Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket.
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A.
Woods Hole ferry terminal
Woods Hole ferry terminal is a major ferry hub in the village of Woods Hole on Cape Cod, serving as the primary departure point for passenger and vehicle ferries to Martha’s Vineyard and the Elizabeth Islands.
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B.
Fishers Island Ferry District
Fishers Island Ferry District is a public transportation authority that operates ferry services connecting Fishers Island, New York, to the mainland.
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C.
Maine State Ferry Service
The Maine State Ferry Service is a publicly operated ferry system that provides essential transportation between mainland Maine and several of its coastal island communities.
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D.
Casco Bay Lines
Casco Bay Lines is a ferry service operating passenger and vehicle routes among the islands and mainland ports of Casco Bay in Maine.
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E.
Wellfleet
Wellfleet is a coastal town on outer Cape Cod in Massachusetts known for its oysters, beaches, and protected seashore.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ferry operator
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mass transportation provider ⓘ public transportation authority ⓘ |
| connects |
Martha’s Vineyard
ⓘ
linked to:
Martha's Vineyard
Massachusetts mainland ⓘ
linked to:
Massachusetts
Nantucket ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| hasPassengerService | true ⓘ |
| hasRoute |
mainland Massachusetts – Martha’s Vineyard
ⓘ
mainland Massachusetts – Nantucket ⓘ |
| hasVehicleService | true ⓘ |
| isEssentialLinkFor |
island businesses
ⓘ
island residents ⓘ tourism to Martha’s Vineyard ⓘ tourism to Nantucket ⓘ |
| isPublicAgency | true ⓘ |
| legalStatus | Massachusetts public authority ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
ⓘ
linked to:
Massachusetts
|
| modeOfTransport | water transport ⓘ |
| operatesIn | Massachusetts ⓘ |
| primaryMainlandPort |
Woods Hole, Massachusetts
ⓘ
linked to:
Woods Hole, Massachusetts, United States
|
| provides |
essential ferry service
ⓘ
essential passenger transportation ⓘ essential vehicle transportation ⓘ |
| regionServed |
Cape Cod and the Islands
ⓘ
linked to:
Cape Cod
|
| serviceArea |
Martha’s Vineyard
ⓘ
linked to:
Martha's Vineyard
Nantucket ⓘ Woods Hole, Massachusetts ⓘ
linked to:
Woods Hole, Massachusetts, United States
|
| serviceFrequency | year-round ⓘ |
| serviceType |
ferry service
ⓘ
passenger transportation ⓘ vehicle transportation ⓘ |
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: Woods Hole, Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket Steamship Authority Description of subject: The Woods Hole, Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket Steamship Authority is a Massachusetts public ferry service that provides essential year-round passenger and vehicle transportation between the mainland and the islands of Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Steamship Authority ferries
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operatedBy
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Woods Hole, Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket Steamship Authority
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linked to: Woods Hole, Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket Steamship Authority
Steamship Authority Vineyard Haven terminal
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operator
→
Woods Hole, Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket Steamship Authority
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Steamship Authority Vineyard Haven terminal
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ownedBy
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Woods Hole, Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket Steamship Authority
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