Whangārei Harbour
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Whangārei Harbour is a large natural harbour on the east coast of New Zealand’s North Island, known for its sheltered waterways, coastal scenery, and role as a key maritime and recreational area for the nearby city of Whangārei.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Whangārei Harbour canonical | 12 |
| Port Whangārei | 2 |
| Port of Whangārei | 2 |
| Whangārei Harbour and city | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4526122 — 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: Whangārei Harbour Context triple: [Northland Region, contains, Whangārei Harbour]
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Tauranga Harbour
Tauranga Harbour is a large natural tidal harbour on New Zealand’s North Island, known for its sheltered waters, busy port facilities, and importance to the coastal city of Tauranga.
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Paotere Harbor
Paotere Harbor is a historic traditional port in Makassar, Indonesia, known for its bustling activity of wooden Phinisi schooners and local fishing boats.
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Waitematā Harbour
Waitematā Harbour is the main natural harbour of Auckland, New Zealand, known for its scenic waterfront, busy shipping lanes, and iconic city skyline views.
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Wellington Harbour
Wellington Harbour is a large natural harbour in New Zealand that serves as the maritime gateway to the city of Wellington and a key hub for transport and commerce in the region.
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Port Waikato
Port Waikato is a small coastal settlement in New Zealand known for its surf beaches, fishing, and location at the Tasman Sea end of the Waikato River.
- 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: Whangārei Harbour Target entity description: Whangārei Harbour is a large natural harbour on the east coast of New Zealand’s North Island, known for its sheltered waterways, coastal scenery, and role as a key maritime and recreational area for the nearby city of Whangārei.
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A.
Tauranga Harbour
Tauranga Harbour is a large natural tidal harbour on New Zealand’s North Island, known for its sheltered waters, busy port facilities, and importance to the coastal city of Tauranga.
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B.
Paotere Harbor
Paotere Harbor is a historic traditional port in Makassar, Indonesia, known for its bustling activity of wooden Phinisi schooners and local fishing boats.
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C.
Waitematā Harbour
Waitematā Harbour is the main natural harbour of Auckland, New Zealand, known for its scenic waterfront, busy shipping lanes, and iconic city skyline views.
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D.
Wellington Harbour
Wellington Harbour is a large natural harbour in New Zealand that serves as the maritime gateway to the city of Wellington and a key hub for transport and commerce in the region.
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E.
Port Waikato
Port Waikato is a small coastal settlement in New Zealand known for its surf beaches, fishing, and location at the Tasman Sea end of the Waikato River.
- 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: Whangārei Harbour Description of subject: Whangārei Harbour is a large natural harbour on the east coast of New Zealand’s North Island, known for its sheltered waterways, coastal scenery, and role as a key maritime and recreational area for the nearby city of Whangārei.
Referenced by (17)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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