New Boston
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New Boston was the original name of the settlement that later became the city of Manhattan, Kansas.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| New Boston canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5064439 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: New Boston Context triple: [Manhattan, Kansas, foundedAs, New Boston]
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A.
Boston
Boston is a historic market town and port in Lincolnshire, England, known for its medieval church St Botolph's ("The Stump") and its role in early English Puritan emigration to America.
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Boston
Boston is a historic market town and port in Lincolnshire, England, known for its medieval church St Botolph's ("The Stump") and its role in the origins of the Pilgrim Fathers.
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C.
Boston
Boston is a historic market and port town in Lincolnshire, England, known for its medieval church St Botolph's ("The Stump") and its role in early Puritan emigration to America.
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New Boston, New Hampshire
New Boston, New Hampshire is a rural town in Hillsborough County known for its scenic landscapes, agricultural heritage, and the New Boston Space Force Station.
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E.
Hamilton, Massachusetts
Hamilton, Massachusetts is a small, affluent suburban town on the North Shore of Massachusetts known for its rural character, equestrian culture, and proximity to the Atlantic coast.
- 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: New Boston Target entity description: New Boston was the original name of the settlement that later became the city of Manhattan, Kansas.
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A.
Boston
Boston is a historic market town and port in Lincolnshire, England, known for its medieval church St Botolph's ("The Stump") and its role in early English Puritan emigration to America.
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B.
Boston
Boston is a historic market town and port in Lincolnshire, England, known for its medieval church St Botolph's ("The Stump") and its role in the origins of the Pilgrim Fathers.
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C.
Boston
Boston is a historic market and port town in Lincolnshire, England, known for its medieval church St Botolph's ("The Stump") and its role in early Puritan emigration to America.
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D.
New Boston, New Hampshire
New Boston, New Hampshire is a rural town in Hillsborough County known for its scenic landscapes, agricultural heritage, and the New Boston Space Force Station.
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Hamilton, Massachusetts
Hamilton, Massachusetts is a small, affluent suburban town on the North Shore of Massachusetts known for its rural character, equestrian culture, and proximity to the Atlantic coast.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | historical settlement ⓘ |
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| coordinateLocation | near coordinates of present-day Manhattan, Kansas ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| hasHistoricalRole | precursor settlement of Manhattan, Kansas ⓘ |
| hasSuccessor | Manhattan, Kansas ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Kansas ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeEntity | Riley County, Kansas ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Central Time Zone ⓘ |
| locatedOnWaterbody |
Big Blue River
ⓘ
Kansas River ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Boston, Massachusetts ⓘ |
| originalNameOf | Manhattan, Kansas ⓘ |
| partOf | American frontier settlements ⓘ |
| presentLocation | within modern city limits of Manhattan, Kansas ⓘ |
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: New Boston Description of subject: New Boston was the original name of the settlement that later became the city of Manhattan, Kansas.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.