Swartz Bay terminal
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Swartz Bay terminal is a major ferry terminal on Vancouver Island in British Columbia, serving as a key passenger and vehicle gateway between the island and the BC mainland.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Swartz Bay terminal canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7873693 — 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: Swartz Bay terminal Context triple: [BC Ferries, primaryHub, Swartz Bay terminal]
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A.
Seagirt Marine Terminal
Seagirt Marine Terminal is a major container and cargo handling facility in Baltimore, Maryland, serving as a key hub for international maritime trade on the U.S. East Coast.
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B.
Talleyrand Marine Terminal
Talleyrand Marine Terminal is a major cargo and shipping facility in Jacksonville, Florida, serving as one of the primary terminals within the JAXPORT seaport system.
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C.
Masonville Marine Terminal
Masonville Marine Terminal is a cargo-handling facility within the Port of Baltimore that supports maritime shipping and related industrial operations.
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D.
Portland International Marine Terminal
Portland International Marine Terminal is a major cargo and container shipping facility in Portland, Maine, serving as a key hub for regional and international maritime trade.
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E.
Dundalk Marine Terminal
Dundalk Marine Terminal is a major cargo-handling facility within the Port of Baltimore, known for processing a wide range of containerized, roll-on/roll-off, and breakbulk shipments.
- 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: Swartz Bay terminal Target entity description: Swartz Bay terminal is a major ferry terminal on Vancouver Island in British Columbia, serving as a key passenger and vehicle gateway between the island and the BC mainland.
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A.
Seagirt Marine Terminal
Seagirt Marine Terminal is a major container and cargo handling facility in Baltimore, Maryland, serving as a key hub for international maritime trade on the U.S. East Coast.
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B.
Talleyrand Marine Terminal
Talleyrand Marine Terminal is a major cargo and shipping facility in Jacksonville, Florida, serving as one of the primary terminals within the JAXPORT seaport system.
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C.
Masonville Marine Terminal
Masonville Marine Terminal is a cargo-handling facility within the Port of Baltimore that supports maritime shipping and related industrial operations.
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D.
Portland International Marine Terminal
Portland International Marine Terminal is a major cargo and container shipping facility in Portland, Maine, serving as a key hub for regional and international maritime trade.
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E.
Dundalk Marine Terminal
Dundalk Marine Terminal is a major cargo-handling facility within the Port of Baltimore, known for processing a wide range of containerized, roll-on/roll-off, and breakbulk shipments.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ferry terminal
ⓘ
transport infrastructure ⓘ |
| adjacentTo | Highway 17 (Patricia Bay Highway) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| connectsRegion |
Lower Mainland of British Columbia
NERFINISHED
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Vancouver Island NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| connectsTo |
Galiano Island
NERFINISHED
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Mayne Island NERFINISHED ⓘ Pender Island NERFINISHED ⓘ Salt Spring Island NERFINISHED ⓘ Saturna Island NERFINISHED ⓘ Southern Gulf Islands NERFINISHED ⓘ Tsawwassen terminal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Canada ⓘ |
| distanceTo | approximately 32 km north of Victoria ⓘ |
| hasAmenity |
accessible facilities
ⓘ
covered walkways ⓘ retail kiosks ⓘ washrooms ⓘ |
| hasFacility |
bus exchange
ⓘ
food services ⓘ multiple vehicle berths ⓘ parking areas ⓘ passenger waiting areas ⓘ ticketing facilities ⓘ |
| hasServiceType |
passenger-only service
ⓘ
roll-on/roll-off ferry service ⓘ |
| isMajorGatewayFor |
Greater Victoria region
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Vancouver Island–mainland travel ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
British Columbia
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North Saanich NERFINISHED ⓘ Vancouver Island NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Sidney, British Columbia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nearWaterbody | Strait of Georgia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| opened | mid-20th century ⓘ |
| operatedBy | BC Ferries NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ownedBy | BC Ferries NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | BC Ferries route network NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryRoute | Swartz Bay–Tsawwassen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicTransitConnection | BC Transit bus services ⓘ |
| region | Capital Regional District NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| role | primary ferry hub for southern Vancouver Island ⓘ |
| serves |
passenger traffic
ⓘ
vehicle traffic ⓘ |
| servesOperator | BC Ferries fleet ⓘ |
| significance | one of the busiest ferry terminals in British Columbia ⓘ |
| transportMode | marine transport ⓘ |
| waterbody | Haro Strait NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Swartz Bay terminal Description of subject: Swartz Bay terminal is a major ferry terminal on Vancouver Island in British Columbia, serving as a key passenger and vehicle gateway between the island and the BC mainland.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.