Ferry
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Ferry is a common French surname borne by various notable figures, including politicians such as Jules Ferry.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ferry canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10058122 — 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: Ferry Context triple: [Jules Ferry, familyName, Ferry]
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A.
SeaBus ferry
The SeaBus ferry is a passenger-only commuter ferry service in Metro Vancouver that connects downtown Vancouver with the North Shore across Burrard Inlet.
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B.
Interislander ferry
The Interislander ferry is a major passenger and vehicle ferry service in New Zealand that connects the North and South Islands across Cook Strait.
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C.
Soflusa ferries
Soflusa ferries are a public ferry service operating passenger routes across the Tagus River in the Lisbon metropolitan area of Portugal.
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D.
CityFerry
CityFerry is a network of passenger ferry services operating on Brisbane’s river, providing public transport connections between key riverside locations.
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E.
Rendsburg ferry
The Rendsburg ferry is a historic transporter bridge ferry in northern Germany that carries passengers and vehicles across the Kiel Canal suspended from the Rendsburg High Bridge.
- 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: Ferry Target entity description: Ferry is a common French surname borne by various notable figures, including politicians such as Jules Ferry.
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A.
SeaBus ferry
The SeaBus ferry is a passenger-only commuter ferry service in Metro Vancouver that connects downtown Vancouver with the North Shore across Burrard Inlet.
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B.
Interislander ferry
The Interislander ferry is a major passenger and vehicle ferry service in New Zealand that connects the North and South Islands across Cook Strait.
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C.
Soflusa ferries
Soflusa ferries are a public ferry service operating passenger routes across the Tagus River in the Lisbon metropolitan area of Portugal.
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D.
CityFerry
CityFerry is a network of passenger ferry services operating on Brisbane’s river, providing public transport connections between key riverside locations.
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E.
Rendsburg ferry
The Rendsburg ferry is a historic transporter bridge ferry in northern Germany that carries passengers and vehicles across the Kiel Canal suspended from the Rendsburg High Bridge.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
French philosopher
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French politician ⓘ French-language surname ⓘ human ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
France
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France ⓘ |
| familyName |
Ferry
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Ferry ⓘ |
| givenName | Jules ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer |
Alfred Ferry
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André Ferry ⓘ Anne Ferry ⓘ Bernard Ferry ⓘ Charles Ferry ⓘ Christian Ferry ⓘ Claude Ferry ⓘ Dominique Ferry ⓘ Eugène Ferry ⓘ François Ferry ⓘ Georges Ferry ⓘ
linked to:
Henri Ferry
Henri Ferry ⓘ Jacques Ferry ⓘ Jean Ferry ⓘ Jules Ferry ⓘ Jérôme Ferry ⓘ Laurent Ferry ⓘ Louis Ferry ⓘ Luc Ferry ⓘ Marcel Ferry ⓘ Michel Ferry ⓘ Noël Ferry ⓘ Patrick Ferry ⓘ Paul Ferry ⓘ Philippe Ferry ⓘ Pierre Ferry ⓘ Raymond Ferry ⓘ René Ferry ⓘ Robert Ferry ⓘ Sidney Ferry ⓘ Yves Ferry ⓘ Émile Ferry ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | French ⓘ |
| notableFor | Ferry laws on free, mandatory, and secular education in France ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Minister of Foreign Affairs of France
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Minister of Public Instruction ⓘ Prime Minister of France ⓘ |
| usedInCountry | France ⓘ |
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: Ferry Description of subject: Ferry is a common French surname borne by various notable figures, including politicians such as Jules Ferry.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.