Pier 50 (Seattle)
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Pier 50 (Seattle) is a passenger-only ferry terminal on Seattle’s central waterfront that serves as a key hub for King County Water Taxi and other commuter ferry services.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Pier 50 (Seattle) canonical | 1 |
| Pier 50, Seattle | 1 |
| Pier 50, Seattle, Washington | 1 |
| Seattle Pier 50 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8927938 — 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: Pier 50 (Seattle) Context triple: [Piers 46–70 (Seattle), hasPart, Pier 50 (Seattle)]
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A.
Pier 49 (Seattle)
Pier 49 is one of the numbered waterfront piers along Seattle’s central shoreline, forming part of the city’s historic and commercial harbor area.
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B.
Pier 46 (Seattle)
Pier 46 in Seattle is a waterfront cargo and shipping pier that forms part of the city’s central industrial and port facilities along Elliott Bay.
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C.
Pier 47 (Seattle)
Pier 47 (Seattle) is one of the central waterfront piers in Seattle, Washington, used primarily for maritime and industrial purposes along Elliott Bay.
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D.
Central Waterfront (Seattle)
Central Waterfront (Seattle) is a prominent stretch of Seattle’s downtown shoreline featuring piers, parks, attractions, and ferry terminals along Elliott Bay.
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E.
Pier 52
Pier 52 is a major ferry terminal on Seattle’s waterfront, serving as a key hub for Washington State Ferries across Puget Sound.
- 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: Pier 50 (Seattle) Target entity description: Pier 50 (Seattle) is a passenger-only ferry terminal on Seattle’s central waterfront that serves as a key hub for King County Water Taxi and other commuter ferry services.
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A.
Pier 49 (Seattle)
Pier 49 is one of the numbered waterfront piers along Seattle’s central shoreline, forming part of the city’s historic and commercial harbor area.
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B.
Pier 46 (Seattle)
Pier 46 in Seattle is a waterfront cargo and shipping pier that forms part of the city’s central industrial and port facilities along Elliott Bay.
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C.
Pier 47 (Seattle)
Pier 47 (Seattle) is one of the central waterfront piers in Seattle, Washington, used primarily for maritime and industrial purposes along Elliott Bay.
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D.
Central Waterfront (Seattle)
Central Waterfront (Seattle) is a prominent stretch of Seattle’s downtown shoreline featuring piers, parks, attractions, and ferry terminals along Elliott Bay.
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E.
Pier 52
Pier 52 is a major ferry terminal on Seattle’s waterfront, serving as a key hub for Washington State Ferries across Puget Sound.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ferry terminal
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transportation facility ⓘ waterfront structure ⓘ |
| accessible |
bicycles
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pedestrians ⓘ |
| adjacentTo |
Alaskan Way
ⓘ
Colman Dock (Pier 52) ⓘ |
| category |
Ferry terminals in Washington (state)
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Transportation in Seattle ⓘ Water transport in Washington (state) ⓘ |
| city | Seattle ⓘ |
| coordinatesRegion | Pacific Northwest ⓘ |
| country |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| county |
King County, Washington
ⓘ
linked to:
King County
|
| hasService |
Vashon Island–Downtown Seattle water taxi route
ⓘ
linked to:
King County Water Taxi Vashon Island route
West Seattle–Downtown Seattle water taxi route ⓘ
linked to:
West Seattle–Downtown Seattle ferry route
|
| hasStructureType | floating passenger-only ferry dock ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Elliott Bay
ⓘ
Seattle, Washington, United States ⓘ |
| locatedOn |
Seattle central waterfront
ⓘ
linked to:
Central Waterfront (Seattle)
|
| near |
Downtown Seattle
ⓘ
linked to:
downtown Seattle
Pioneer Square neighborhood ⓘ
linked to:
Pioneer Square
|
| operator |
King County (Washington)
ⓘ
linked to:
King County
|
| ownedBy |
King County (Washington)
ⓘ
linked to:
King County
|
| partOf |
Seattle waterfront
ⓘ
linked to:
Seattle Waterfront
|
| publicTransitConnection |
King County Metro bus services
ⓘ
linked to:
King County Metro services
Seattle street-level transit on Alaskan Way vicinity ⓘ |
| serves | King County Water Taxi ⓘ |
| state | Washington ⓘ |
| usedFor |
commuter ferry service
ⓘ
passenger-only ferry service ⓘ |
| waterBody | Elliott Bay ⓘ |
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: Pier 50 (Seattle) Description of subject: Pier 50 (Seattle) is a passenger-only ferry terminal on Seattle’s central waterfront that serves as a key hub for King County Water Taxi and other commuter ferry services.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Pier 50 (Seattle)
linked to: Pier 50 (Seattle)
linked to: Pier 50 (Seattle)