Plaquemines Parish

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parish of Louisiana

Plaquemines Parish is a coastal parish at the mouth of the Mississippi River in southeastern Louisiana, known for its oil and gas industry, fishing, and vulnerability to hurricanes and coastal erosion.

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All labels observed (2)

Label	Occurrences
Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana	7
Plaquemines Parish canonical	4

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5341387 — 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: Plaquemines Parish
Context triple: [Buras-Triumph, Louisiana, parish, Plaquemines Parish]

A. St. Bernard Parish
St. Bernard Parish is a Catholic church and local faith community serving residents of West Newton.
B. Lafourche Parish, Louisiana
Lafourche Parish, Louisiana is a coastal parish in the southeastern part of the state known for its bayous, Cajun culture, and proximity to the Gulf of Mexico.
C. St. Tammany Parish
St. Tammany Parish is a suburban parish in southeastern Louisiana, located on the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain and part of the Greater New Orleans metropolitan area.
D. Ascension Parish
Ascension Parish is a Church of England parish in Cambridge, England, historically associated with the nearby Ascension Parish Burial Ground where many notable academics are interred.
E. St. James Parish, Louisiana
St. James Parish, Louisiana is a rural parish along the Mississippi River in southeastern Louisiana, known historically for its sugarcane plantations and Creole culture.
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: Plaquemines Parish
Target entity description: Plaquemines Parish is a coastal parish at the mouth of the Mississippi River in southeastern Louisiana, known for its oil and gas industry, fishing, and vulnerability to hurricanes and coastal erosion.

A. St. Bernard Parish
St. Bernard Parish is a Catholic church and local faith community serving residents of West Newton.
B. Lafourche Parish, Louisiana
Lafourche Parish, Louisiana is a coastal parish in the southeastern part of the state known for its bayous, Cajun culture, and proximity to the Gulf of Mexico.
C. St. Tammany Parish
St. Tammany Parish is a suburban parish in southeastern Louisiana, located on the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain and part of the Greater New Orleans metropolitan area.
D. Ascension Parish
Ascension Parish is a Church of England parish in Cambridge, England, historically associated with the nearby Ascension Parish Burial Ground where many notable academics are interred.
E. St. James Parish, Louisiana
St. James Parish, Louisiana is a rural parish along the Mississippi River in southeastern Louisiana, known historically for its sugarcane plantations and Creole culture.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (50)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	parish of Louisiana ⓘ
borderedBy	Jefferson Parish NERFINISHED ⓘ Orleans Parish NERFINISHED ⓘ St. Bernard Parish NERFINISHED ⓘ
bordersBodyOfWater	Gulf of Mexico NERFINISHED ⓘ
contains	Belle Chasse NERFINISHED ⓘ Boothville NERFINISHED ⓘ Braithwaite NERFINISHED ⓘ Buras NERFINISHED ⓘ Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ Phoenix NERFINISHED ⓘ Pointe à la Hache NERFINISHED ⓘ Port Sulphur NERFINISHED ⓘ Venice NERFINISHED ⓘ
country	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
fipsCode	22075 ⓘ
frequentlyAffectedBy	Atlantic hurricane season storms ⓘ hurricanes ⓘ tropical storms ⓘ
hasEconomicActivity	offshore oil support services ⓘ oyster harvesting ⓘ shipbuilding and repair ⓘ shrimping ⓘ
hasFeature	barrier islands ⓘ extensive wetlands ⓘ marshes ⓘ
hasGeography	long narrow strip along both banks of the Mississippi River ⓘ
hasMajorHighway	Louisiana Highway 23 NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasMajorIndustry	commercial fisheries ⓘ maritime transportation ⓘ oil and gas extraction ⓘ petrochemical processing ⓘ
knownFor	coastal erosion ⓘ commercial fishing ⓘ natural gas industry ⓘ oil industry ⓘ recreational fishing ⓘ seafood production ⓘ vulnerability to hurricanes ⓘ
largestCommunity	Belle Chasse NERFINISHED ⓘ
locatedAt	mouth of the Mississippi River ⓘ
locatedIn	Mississippi River Delta NERFINISHED ⓘ southeastern Louisiana NERFINISHED ⓘ
namedAfter	Plaquemine (Louisiana French word for persimmon) ⓘ
parishSeat	Pointe à la Hache NERFINISHED ⓘ
partOf	New Orleans metropolitan area NERFINISHED ⓘ
state	Louisiana ⓘ
subjectTo	land loss ⓘ storm surge flooding ⓘ
timeZone	Central Time Zone ⓘ

How these facts were elicited