White Island
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White Island is a small island off the coast of Maine, part of the Isles of Shoals archipelago in the Gulf of Maine.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| White Island canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5258016 — 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: White Island Context triple: [Appledore Island, hasNearbyIslands, White Island]
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A.
White Island (Ross Archipelago)
White Island (Ross Archipelago) is a small, ice-covered volcanic island in Antarctica’s Ross Sea, notable for its remote location and association with nearby Mount Erebus.
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B.
White Island / Whakaari volcanic centre
White Island / Whakaari volcanic centre is an active marine stratovolcano off the coast of New Zealand’s North Island, known for its frequent eruptions and hazardous geothermal landscape.
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C.
Mount Ruapehu
Mount Ruapehu is an active stratovolcano in New Zealand’s central North Island, renowned for its ski fields, crater lake, and status as the country’s largest active volcano.
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D.
Mount Ngauruhoe
Mount Ngauruhoe is an active stratovolcano in New Zealand’s central North Island, famed for its dramatic conical shape and its role as Mount Doom in the "Lord of the Rings" film trilogy.
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E.
Mount Taranaki
Mount Taranaki is a prominent, near-symmetrical stratovolcano on New Zealand’s North Island, renowned for its striking resemblance to Mount Fuji and its surrounding lush national park.
- 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: White Island Target entity description: White Island is a small island off the coast of Maine, part of the Isles of Shoals archipelago in the Gulf of Maine.
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A.
White Island (Ross Archipelago)
White Island (Ross Archipelago) is a small, ice-covered volcanic island in Antarctica’s Ross Sea, notable for its remote location and association with nearby Mount Erebus.
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B.
White Island / Whakaari volcanic centre
White Island / Whakaari volcanic centre is an active marine stratovolcano off the coast of New Zealand’s North Island, known for its frequent eruptions and hazardous geothermal landscape.
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C.
Mount Ruapehu
Mount Ruapehu is an active stratovolcano in New Zealand’s central North Island, renowned for its ski fields, crater lake, and status as the country’s largest active volcano.
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D.
Mount Ngauruhoe
Mount Ngauruhoe is an active stratovolcano in New Zealand’s central North Island, famed for its dramatic conical shape and its role as Mount Doom in the "Lord of the Rings" film trilogy.
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E.
Mount Taranaki
Mount Taranaki is a prominent, near-symmetrical stratovolcano on New Zealand’s North Island, renowned for its striking resemblance to Mount Fuji and its surrounding lush national park.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
island
ⓘ
landform ⓘ |
| archipelago | Isles of Shoals ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| hasClimate | humid continental climate ⓘ |
| hasCoordinateRegion | Gulf of Maine ⓘ |
| hasEnvironment |
marine environment
ⓘ
rocky coastal environment ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
exposed coastal terrain
ⓘ
rocky shoreline ⓘ sparse vegetation ⓘ |
| hasJurisdiction |
State of Maine
ⓘ
linked to:
Maine
|
| hasNearbyActivity |
birdwatching
ⓘ
boating ⓘ fishing ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Atlantic Ocean
ⓘ
Gulf of Maine ⓘ Maine ⓘ New England ⓘ |
| locatedInBodyOfWater | Gulf of Maine ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Eastern Time Zone ⓘ |
| locatedNear | New Hampshire ⓘ |
| nearbyIslands |
Appledore Island
ⓘ
Smuttynose Island ⓘ Star Island (Isles of Shoals) ⓘ |
| offCoastOf | Maine ⓘ |
| partOf | Isles of Shoals ⓘ |
| region |
Gulf of Maine coastal region
ⓘ
linked to:
Gulf of Maine
|
| usedFor | navigation reference ⓘ |
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: White Island Description of subject: White Island is a small island off the coast of Maine, part of the Isles of Shoals archipelago in the Gulf of Maine.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.