Willey House Historic Site

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historic site homestead

Willey House Historic Site is a historic 19th-century homestead in New Hampshire’s White Mountains, known for the tragic 1826 landslide that killed the Willey family and became a famous early American tourism and cautionary tale.

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All labels observed (5)

Label	Occurrences
Willey House Historic Site canonical	3
Willey House Site	2
Willey House	1
Willey House became a tourist attraction	1
Willey House building	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5718854 — 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: Willey House Historic Site
Context triple: [Crawford Notch, contains, Willey House Historic Site]

A. Colburn House State Historic Site
Colburn House State Historic Site is a preserved historic home and museum in Maine recognized as a National Historic Landmark for its architectural and historical significance.
B. Leffingwell House Museum
Leffingwell House Museum is a historic colonial-era house museum in Norwich, Connecticut, showcasing early American architecture and local history.
C. Carlyle House Historic Park
Carlyle House Historic Park is a preserved 18th-century Georgian mansion and museum in Old Town Alexandria that interprets colonial life and early American history.
D. Grant-Humphreys Mansion
Grant-Humphreys Mansion is a historic Beaux-Arts mansion in Denver, Colorado, known for its association with prominent political figures and its use as an event and cultural venue.
E. Liberty Hall Historic Site
Liberty Hall Historic Site is a preserved early 19th-century Federal-style mansion and museum in Frankfort, Kentucky, that interprets the history of the influential Brown family and early American life.
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: Willey House Historic Site
Target entity description: Willey House Historic Site is a historic 19th-century homestead in New Hampshire’s White Mountains, known for the tragic 1826 landslide that killed the Willey family and became a famous early American tourism and cautionary tale.

A. Colburn House State Historic Site
Colburn House State Historic Site is a preserved historic home and museum in Maine recognized as a National Historic Landmark for its architectural and historical significance.
B. Leffingwell House Museum
Leffingwell House Museum is a historic colonial-era house museum in Norwich, Connecticut, showcasing early American architecture and local history.
C. Carlyle House Historic Park
Carlyle House Historic Park is a preserved 18th-century Georgian mansion and museum in Old Town Alexandria that interprets colonial life and early American history.
D. Grant-Humphreys Mansion
Grant-Humphreys Mansion is a historic Beaux-Arts mansion in Denver, Colorado, known for its association with prominent political figures and its use as an event and cultural venue.
E. Liberty Hall Historic Site
Liberty Hall Historic Site is a preserved early 19th-century Federal-style mansion and museum in Frankfort, Kentucky, that interprets the history of the influential Brown family and early American life.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (47)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	historic site ⓘ homestead ⓘ
associatedWith	American Romanticism ⓘ sublime landscape aesthetics ⓘ
country	United States ⓘ linked to: United States of America
dateOfEvent	August 28, 1826 ⓘ
featuredIn	19th-century travel literature about the White Mountains ⓘ paintings of the White Mountains school ⓘ
hasAmenity	interpretive displays ⓘ parking area ⓘ picnic area ⓘ visitor center ⓘ
hasEvent	Willey family landslide disaster ⓘ linked to: Willey family disaster of 1826
hasNearbyFeature	Crawford Notch railroad line ⓘ linked to: Crawford Notch Mount Willey ⓘ Saco River ⓘ
hasResident	Polly Willey ⓘ Samuel Willey Jr. ⓘ Willey children ⓘ hired workers ⓘ
hasStructure	Willey House building ⓘ linked to: Willey House Historic Site barn ⓘ outbuildings ⓘ
hasTheme	19th-century rural life in New Hampshire ⓘ development of American tourism ⓘ human relationship with wilderness ⓘ natural disaster history ⓘ
hasView	Crawford Notch ⓘ
heritageDesignation	listed on the National Register of Historic Places ⓘ
knownFor	1826 landslide that killed the Willey family ⓘ cautionary tale about mountain hazards ⓘ early American tourism ⓘ picturesque and sublime landscape associations ⓘ
locatedIn	Carroll, New Hampshire ⓘ Coos County, New Hampshire ⓘ Crawford Notch ⓘ New Hampshire ⓘ White Mountains ⓘ
namedAfter	Willey family ⓘ
NRHPState	New Hampshire ⓘ
NRHPType	site ⓘ
numberOfFatalitiesInDisaster	9 ⓘ
operatedBy	New Hampshire Division of Parks and Recreation ⓘ linked to: New Hampshire Department of Natural and Cultural Resources
partOf	Crawford Notch State Park ⓘ linked to: Crawford Notch New Hampshire state park system ⓘ linked to: New Hampshire State Park system
significantYear	1826 ⓘ
touristAttractionSince	19th century ⓘ

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