Port of Mobile
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The Port of Mobile is a major deep-water seaport in Alabama that serves as a key hub for international trade, shipping, and transportation infrastructure in the southeastern United States.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Port of Mobile canonical | 18 |
| Port of Mobile, Alabama | 2 |
| Alabama State Docks | 1 |
| Alabama State Port Authority | 1 |
| Port of Mobile terminals | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T581013 — 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: Port of Mobile Context triple: [Gulf Coast of the United States, hasMajorPort, Port of Mobile]
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A.
Biloxi
Biloxi is a coastal Mississippi city known for its beaches, casinos, and seafood industry along the Gulf of Mexico.
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B.
Port of Tampa
The Port of Tampa is a major deep-water seaport in Florida that serves as a key hub for cargo shipping, petroleum imports, and cruise operations in the southeastern United States.
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C.
Port of Houston
The Port of Houston is a major U.S. deep-water seaport and one of the nation’s busiest hubs for international trade and petrochemical shipping along the Gulf Coast.
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D.
Charleston Harbor
Charleston Harbor is a historic natural harbor in South Carolina, best known as the site where the American Civil War began with the bombardment of Fort Sumter.
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E.
JAXPORT
JAXPORT is the public seaport authority for Jacksonville, Florida, serving as a major U.S. hub for container, automobile, and bulk cargo shipping.
- 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: Port of Mobile Target entity description: The Port of Mobile is a major deep-water seaport in Alabama that serves as a key hub for international trade, shipping, and transportation infrastructure in the southeastern United States.
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A.
Biloxi
Biloxi is a coastal Mississippi city known for its beaches, casinos, and seafood industry along the Gulf of Mexico.
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B.
Port of Tampa
The Port of Tampa is a major deep-water seaport in Florida that serves as a key hub for cargo shipping, petroleum imports, and cruise operations in the southeastern United States.
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C.
Port of Houston
The Port of Houston is a major U.S. deep-water seaport and one of the nation’s busiest hubs for international trade and petrochemical shipping along the Gulf Coast.
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D.
Charleston Harbor
Charleston Harbor is a historic natural harbor in South Carolina, best known as the site where the American Civil War began with the bombardment of Fort Sumter.
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E.
JAXPORT
JAXPORT is the public seaport authority for Jacksonville, Florida, serving as a major U.S. hub for container, automobile, and bulk cargo shipping.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
deep-water port
ⓘ
seaport ⓘ transportation hub ⓘ |
| channelDepth | approximately 45 feet ⓘ |
| connectedTo |
Mississippi River basin
ⓘ
surface form:
Mississippi River system
Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway ⓘ highway network ⓘ inland waterways ⓘ rail network ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| governingBody | Alabama State Port Authority ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
automobile import and export
ⓘ
breakbulk cargo shipping ⓘ bulk cargo shipping ⓘ cargo handling ⓘ container shipping ⓘ intermodal transportation ⓘ international trade hub ⓘ |
| hasInfrastructure |
automobile terminal
ⓘ
bulk terminals ⓘ container terminal ⓘ deep-draft ship channel ⓘ general cargo terminals ⓘ rail yards ⓘ warehouses ⓘ |
| hasNearbyAirport |
Mobile Regional Airport
ⓘ
surface form:
Mobile International Airport
Mobile Regional Airport ⓘ |
| isMajorPortFor |
automobiles
ⓘ
coal exports ⓘ containers ⓘ forest products ⓘ steel products ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Alabama
ⓘ
Gulf of Mexico ⓘ Mobile, Alabama ⓘ |
| locatedOnWaterbody | Mobile Bay ⓘ |
| operatedBy |
Port of Mobile
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Alabama State Port Authority
|
| partOf | U.S. Gulf Coast port system ⓘ |
| rankedAmong | largest U.S. seaports by cargo volume ⓘ |
| region |
Gulf Coast of the United States
ⓘ
surface form:
Gulf Coast
|
| serves |
Alabama
ⓘ
Georgia ⓘ Midwestern United States ⓘ Mississippi River ⓘ
surface form:
Mississippi
Tennessee ⓘ southeastern United States ⓘ |
| timeZone | Central Time Zone ⓘ |
| UNLocode | USMOB ⓘ |
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: Port of Mobile Description of subject: The Port of Mobile is a major deep-water seaport in Alabama that serves as a key hub for international trade, shipping, and transportation infrastructure in the southeastern United States.
Referenced by (23)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Alabama State Port Authority
this entity surface form:
Port of Mobile, Alabama
this entity surface form:
Port of Mobile terminals
this entity surface form:
Alabama State Docks
this entity surface form:
Port of Mobile, Alabama