Plum Island, New York
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Plum Island, New York is a small, federally controlled island off the northeastern tip of Long Island best known as the site of the Plum Island Animal Disease Center, a high-security research facility for contagious livestock diseases.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Plum Island | 7 |
| Plum Island, New York canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5308261 — 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: Plum Island, New York Context triple: [Plum Island Animal Disease Center, location, Plum Island, New York]
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Plum Island
Plum Island is a barrier island off the northeastern coast of Massachusetts known for its beaches, wildlife refuge, and coastal communities.
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Green Island, New York
Green Island, New York is a small village and town in Albany County situated on an island in the Hudson River just north of Albany, known for its industrial history and proximity to major transportation routes.
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North Brother Island
North Brother Island is a small, historically significant and now abandoned island in New York City's East River, known for its former quarantine hospital and restricted access as a bird sanctuary.
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Harbor Isle, New York
Harbor Isle, New York is a small residential hamlet on Long Island’s South Shore in Nassau County, known for its waterfront location near Island Park and proximity to Reynolds Channel.
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Monomoy Island
Monomoy Island is a barrier island and wildlife refuge off the coast of Cape Cod in Massachusetts, known for its protected habitats and abundant bird and seal populations.
- 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: Plum Island, New York Target entity description: Plum Island, New York is a small, federally controlled island off the northeastern tip of Long Island best known as the site of the Plum Island Animal Disease Center, a high-security research facility for contagious livestock diseases.
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Plum Island
Plum Island is a barrier island off the northeastern coast of Massachusetts known for its beaches, wildlife refuge, and coastal communities.
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B.
Green Island, New York
Green Island, New York is a small village and town in Albany County situated on an island in the Hudson River just north of Albany, known for its industrial history and proximity to major transportation routes.
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C.
North Brother Island
North Brother Island is a small, historically significant and now abandoned island in New York City's East River, known for its former quarantine hospital and restricted access as a bird sanctuary.
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Harbor Isle, New York
Harbor Isle, New York is a small residential hamlet on Long Island’s South Shore in Nassau County, known for its waterfront location near Island Park and proximity to Reynolds Channel.
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Monomoy Island
Monomoy Island is a barrier island and wildlife refuge off the coast of Cape Cod in Massachusetts, known for its protected habitats and abundant bird and seal populations.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: Plum Island, New York Description of subject: Plum Island, New York is a small, federally controlled island off the northeastern tip of Long Island best known as the site of the Plum Island Animal Disease Center, a high-security research facility for contagious livestock diseases.
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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