Seafair Torchlight Parade
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The Seafair Torchlight Parade is a major nighttime parade in Seattle featuring illuminated floats, marching bands, and community groups as part of the city’s annual Seafair summer festival.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Seafair Torchlight Parade canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5953939 — 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: Seafair Torchlight Parade Context triple: [Seafair hydroplane races, relatedFestivalElement, Seafair Torchlight Parade]
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A.
Seafair summer festival
The Seafair summer festival is an annual Seattle celebration featuring hydroplane races, air shows, parades, and community events centered around the city’s maritime and cultural heritage.
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B.
Columbus Day Parade
The Columbus Day Parade is an annual Italian-American heritage celebration featuring floats, music, and community festivities, notably held in San Francisco’s North Beach neighborhood.
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C.
Seafair Air Show
The Seafair Air Show is an annual aviation event in Seattle featuring military and civilian aerial performances as part of the city’s larger Seafair summer festival.
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D.
Tournament of Roses Parade
The Tournament of Roses Parade is an annual New Year’s Day procession in Pasadena, California, featuring elaborate flower-covered floats, marching bands, and equestrian units.
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E.
Tigard Festival of Balloons
The Tigard Festival of Balloons is a community hot air balloon festival in Tigard, Oregon, featuring balloon launches, family activities, and local entertainment each year.
- 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: Seafair Torchlight Parade Target entity description: The Seafair Torchlight Parade is a major nighttime parade in Seattle featuring illuminated floats, marching bands, and community groups as part of the city’s annual Seafair summer festival.
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A.
Seafair summer festival
The Seafair summer festival is an annual Seattle celebration featuring hydroplane races, air shows, parades, and community events centered around the city’s maritime and cultural heritage.
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B.
Columbus Day Parade
The Columbus Day Parade is an annual Italian-American heritage celebration featuring floats, music, and community festivities, notably held in San Francisco’s North Beach neighborhood.
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C.
Seafair Air Show
The Seafair Air Show is an annual aviation event in Seattle featuring military and civilian aerial performances as part of the city’s larger Seafair summer festival.
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D.
Tournament of Roses Parade
The Tournament of Roses Parade is an annual New Year’s Day procession in Pasadena, California, featuring elaborate flower-covered floats, marching bands, and equestrian units.
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E.
Tigard Festival of Balloons
The Tigard Festival of Balloons is a community hot air balloon festival in Tigard, Oregon, featuring balloon launches, family activities, and local entertainment each year.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
annual event
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nighttime parade ⓘ parade ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Alaska Airlines Seafair Torchlight Parade NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Seafair Torchlight Run
NERFINISHED
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Seafair Weekend NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| city | Seattle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| feature |
community groups
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illuminated floats ⓘ marching bands ⓘ |
| festival | Seafair summer festival NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
civic parade
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lighted parade ⓘ |
| hasAudienceType |
families
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local residents ⓘ tourists ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
community participation
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downtown route ⓘ illuminated entries ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Seattle
NERFINISHED
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United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
Washington NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Seafair NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | Pacific Northwest ⓘ |
| season | summer ⓘ |
| sponsor | Alaska Airlines NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timeOfDay | night ⓘ |
| typicalStartTime | evening ⓘ |
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: Seafair Torchlight Parade Description of subject: The Seafair Torchlight Parade is a major nighttime parade in Seattle featuring illuminated floats, marching bands, and community groups as part of the city’s annual Seafair summer festival.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.