King County Water Taxi terminal at Pier 50
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The King County Water Taxi terminal at Pier 50 is a passenger ferry facility on Seattle’s downtown waterfront that serves as the main dock for King County’s water taxi routes across Elliott Bay.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| King County Water Taxi terminal at Pier 50 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8928466 — 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: King County Water Taxi terminal at Pier 50 Context triple: [Seattle transportation network, hasComponent, King County Water Taxi terminal at Pier 50]
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A.
Bainbridge Island Ferry Terminal
Bainbridge Island Ferry Terminal is a major Washington State Ferries terminal connecting Bainbridge Island with downtown Seattle across Puget Sound.
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B.
Seattle Ferry Terminal
The Seattle Ferry Terminal is a major waterfront transportation hub in downtown Seattle that serves as the primary departure point for Washington State Ferries across Puget Sound.
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C.
Horseshoe Bay ferry terminal
Horseshoe Bay ferry terminal is a major BC Ferries hub in West Vancouver, British Columbia, providing passenger and vehicle ferry service to Vancouver Island, the Sunshine Coast, and nearby islands.
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D.
Vashon ferry terminal
Vashon ferry terminal is a Washington State Ferries dock on Vashon Island that serves as a key connection point to Fauntleroy in West Seattle and Southworth on the Kitsap Peninsula.
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E.
SF Hydro ferry
The SF Hydro ferry was a Norwegian transport vessel sunk in 1944 as part of the Allied effort to disrupt Nazi Germany’s access to heavy water for its atomic research program.
- 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: King County Water Taxi terminal at Pier 50 Target entity description: The King County Water Taxi terminal at Pier 50 is a passenger ferry facility on Seattle’s downtown waterfront that serves as the main dock for King County’s water taxi routes across Elliott Bay.
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A.
Bainbridge Island Ferry Terminal
Bainbridge Island Ferry Terminal is a major Washington State Ferries terminal connecting Bainbridge Island with downtown Seattle across Puget Sound.
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B.
Seattle Ferry Terminal
The Seattle Ferry Terminal is a major waterfront transportation hub in downtown Seattle that serves as the primary departure point for Washington State Ferries across Puget Sound.
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C.
Horseshoe Bay ferry terminal
Horseshoe Bay ferry terminal is a major BC Ferries hub in West Vancouver, British Columbia, providing passenger and vehicle ferry service to Vancouver Island, the Sunshine Coast, and nearby islands.
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D.
Vashon ferry terminal
Vashon ferry terminal is a Washington State Ferries dock on Vashon Island that serves as a key connection point to Fauntleroy in West Seattle and Southworth on the Kitsap Peninsula.
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E.
SF Hydro ferry
The SF Hydro ferry was a Norwegian transport vessel sunk in 1944 as part of the Allied effort to disrupt Nazi Germany’s access to heavy water for its atomic research program.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ferry terminal
ⓘ
passenger ferry facility ⓘ transportation infrastructure ⓘ |
| adjacentTo | Colman Dock (Pier 52) ⓘ |
| connectsTo |
Vashon Island
ⓘ
West Seattle ⓘ |
| faces | Elliott Bay ⓘ |
| hasAccessMode |
bicycle access
ⓘ
pedestrian access ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
passenger boarding
ⓘ
passenger disembarkation ⓘ |
| hasPrimaryUse | public transit ⓘ |
| hasStreetAddress |
Pier 50, Seattle, Washington
ⓘ
linked to:
Pier 50 (Seattle)
|
| hasTransportationMode | water transport ⓘ |
| isMainDockFor | King County Water Taxi routes across Elliott Bay ⓘ |
| isOnWaterbody | Puget Sound ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
King County, Washington
ⓘ
linked to:
King County
Seattle ⓘ United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
Washington State ⓘ
linked to:
Washington
|
| locatedOn |
Elliott Bay
ⓘ
Seattle downtown waterfront ⓘ
linked to:
Seattle Waterfront
|
| operatedBy | King County Metro ⓘ |
| ownedBy | King County ⓘ |
| partOf | King County ferry system ⓘ |
| serves | King County Water Taxi ⓘ |
| servesRoute |
King County Water Taxi Vashon Island route
ⓘ
King County Water Taxi West Seattle route ⓘ |
| usedFor |
commuter ferry service
ⓘ
tourist ferry service ⓘ |
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: King County Water Taxi terminal at Pier 50 Description of subject: The King County Water Taxi terminal at Pier 50 is a passenger ferry facility on Seattle’s downtown waterfront that serves as the main dock for King County’s water taxi routes across Elliott Bay.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.