Pullman
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Pullman is a small college town in southeastern Washington State best known as the home of Washington State University.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Pullman canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9257317 — 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: Pullman Context triple: [Wazzu, associatedWithCity, Pullman]
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A.
Pullman
Pullman is a surname most notably associated with American actor Bill Pullman, known for his roles in films such as "Independence Day" and "While You Were Sleeping."
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B.
Pullman Works
Pullman Works was a major railcar manufacturing and repair facility historically associated with the Pullman Company in Chicago, Illinois.
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C.
Pullman sleeping car
The Pullman sleeping car was a luxurious railroad passenger car introduced in the 19th century that provided comfortable overnight accommodations and helped transform long-distance train travel.
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D.
600 Pullman
The 600 Pullman is a legendary ultra-luxury limousine produced by Mercedes-Benz in the 1960s and 1970s, renowned for its advanced engineering, opulent appointments, and frequent use by heads of state and celebrities.
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E.
Aventra
Aventra is a family of modern electric multiple-unit trains designed and built by Bombardier Transportation (now Alstom) for use on the UK rail network.
- 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: Pullman Target entity description: Pullman is a small college town in southeastern Washington State best known as the home of Washington State University.
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A.
Pullman
Pullman is a surname most notably associated with American actor Bill Pullman, known for his roles in films such as "Independence Day" and "While You Were Sleeping."
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B.
Pullman Works
Pullman Works was a major railcar manufacturing and repair facility historically associated with the Pullman Company in Chicago, Illinois.
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C.
Pullman sleeping car
The Pullman sleeping car was a luxurious railroad passenger car introduced in the 19th century that provided comfortable overnight accommodations and helped transform long-distance train travel.
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D.
600 Pullman
The 600 Pullman is a legendary ultra-luxury limousine produced by Mercedes-Benz in the 1960s and 1970s, renowned for its advanced engineering, opulent appointments, and frequent use by heads of state and celebrities.
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E.
Aventra
Aventra is a family of modern electric multiple-unit trains designed and built by Bombardier Transportation (now Alstom) for use on the UK rail network.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
city
ⓘ
college town ⓘ |
| agriculturalRegion | wheat-growing region ⓘ |
| airportServes | Pullman–Moscow Regional Airport NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| areaCode | 509 ⓘ |
| climate | humid continental climate ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| county | Whitman County NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distanceToMoscowIdaho | about 8 miles ⓘ |
| elevation | approximately 2350 feet ⓘ |
| governingBody | City of Pullman government NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAirport | Pullman–Moscow Regional Airport NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFeature | Washington State University main campus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLandform | rolling hills ⓘ |
| hasNeighboringCity |
Colfax, Washington
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Moscow, Idaho NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPublicTransit | Pullman Transit NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSportsTeam |
Washington State Cougars basketball
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Washington State Cougars football NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasUniversity | Washington State University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| homeOf | Washington State University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isCollegeTownOf | Washington State University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isCountySeatOf | Whitman County NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor | Washington State University Cougars NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Inland Northwest
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
southeastern Washington ⓘ |
| locatedOn | South Fork of the Palouse River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedAfter | George Pullman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| near | Moscow, Idaho NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Pacific Northwest NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| postalCodePrefix | 991 ⓘ |
| primaryEconomicBase |
agriculture
ⓘ
higher education ⓘ |
| region | Palouse NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| state | Washington ⓘ |
| timeZone | Pacific Time Zone ⓘ |
| universityFounded | Washington State University founded 1890 ⓘ |
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: Pullman Description of subject: Pullman is a small college town in southeastern Washington State best known as the home of Washington State University.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.