Pier 52 (Seattle)
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Pier 52 (Seattle) is a central waterfront pier in downtown Seattle best known as the main terminal for Washington State Ferries serving routes across Puget Sound.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Pier 52 (Seattle) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8927940 — 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 52 (Seattle) Context triple: [Piers 46–70 (Seattle), hasPart, Pier 52 (Seattle)]
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A.
Pier 50 (Seattle)
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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B.
Pier 51 (Seattle)
Pier 51 (Seattle) is a waterfront pier on Elliott Bay that has historically served as a key transportation and ferry terminal site in downtown Seattle.
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C.
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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D.
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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E.
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.
- 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 52 (Seattle) Target entity description: Pier 52 (Seattle) is a central waterfront pier in downtown Seattle best known as the main terminal for Washington State Ferries serving routes across Puget Sound.
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A.
Pier 50 (Seattle)
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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B.
Pier 51 (Seattle)
Pier 51 (Seattle) is a waterfront pier on Elliott Bay that has historically served as a key transportation and ferry terminal site in downtown Seattle.
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C.
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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D.
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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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ferry terminal
ⓘ
pier ⓘ transport infrastructure ⓘ |
| accessibleBy |
automobile
ⓘ
bus ⓘ pedestrian access ⓘ |
| adjacentTo |
Alaskan Way
ⓘ
Seattle Ferry Plaza ⓘ
linked to:
Central Waterfront (Seattle)
|
| alsoKnownAs |
Colman Dock
ⓘ
Seattle Ferry Terminal ⓘ |
| city | Seattle ⓘ |
| connectsTo |
Bainbridge Island
ⓘ
Bremerton ⓘ Vashon Island ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| hasAmenity |
food and retail kiosks
ⓘ
restrooms ⓘ ticketing facilities ⓘ waiting areas ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
passenger ferry terminal
ⓘ
vehicle ferry terminal ⓘ |
| hasNearbyTransit |
Columbia Street transit corridor
ⓘ
linked to:
Columbia Street
King County Metro bus routes ⓘ |
| hasParking | vehicle staging areas ⓘ |
| hasStructure |
ferry slips
ⓘ
passenger terminal building ⓘ vehicle holding lanes ⓘ |
| isMainTerminalFor |
Washington State Ferries Seattle routes
ⓘ
linked to:
Washington State Ferries
|
| isMajorHubFor | Washington State Ferries ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Seattle
ⓘ
United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
Washington ⓘ downtown Seattle ⓘ |
| locatedOn |
Elliott Bay
ⓘ
central waterfront of Seattle ⓘ |
| near |
Columbia Street
ⓘ
Pioneer Square ⓘ |
| operatedBy | Washington State Ferries ⓘ |
| ownedBy | Washington State Department of Transportation ⓘ |
| partOf |
Seattle waterfront
ⓘ
linked to:
Seattle Waterfront
Washington State Ferries system ⓘ
linked to:
Washington State Ferries
|
| servesBodyOfWater | Puget Sound ⓘ |
| servesRoute |
Seattle–Bainbridge Island ferry route
ⓘ
linked to:
Seattle–Bainbridge Island ferry
Seattle–Bremerton ferry route ⓘ
linked to:
Seattle–Bremerton ferry
Seattle–Vashon Island passenger-only ferry route ⓘ |
| state | Washington ⓘ |
| usedFor |
commuter travel
ⓘ
tourist travel ⓘ |
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 52 (Seattle) Description of subject: Pier 52 (Seattle) is a central waterfront pier in downtown Seattle best known as the main terminal for Washington State Ferries serving routes across Puget Sound.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.