Manannan (fast ferry)
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Manannan is a high-speed catamaran ferry operated by the Isle of Man Steam Packet Company, providing fast passenger and vehicle services across the Irish Sea.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Manannan (fast ferry) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10132628 — 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: Manannan (fast ferry) Context triple: [Isle of Man Steam Packet Company, hasShip, Manannan (fast ferry)]
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A.
Ferry
Ferry is a common French surname borne by various notable figures, including politicians such as Jules Ferry.
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B.
Lake Express high-speed ferry
The Lake Express high-speed ferry is a passenger and vehicle ferry that provides rapid cross-Lake Michigan service between Muskegon, Michigan, and Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
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C.
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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D.
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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E.
River Medina ferry
The River Medina ferry is a passenger and vehicle ferry service that crosses the River Medina, linking East Cowes with Cowes on the Isle of Wight.
- 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: Manannan (fast ferry) Target entity description: Manannan is a high-speed catamaran ferry operated by the Isle of Man Steam Packet Company, providing fast passenger and vehicle services across the Irish Sea.
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A.
Ferry
Ferry is a common French surname borne by various notable figures, including politicians such as Jules Ferry.
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B.
Lake Express high-speed ferry
The Lake Express high-speed ferry is a passenger and vehicle ferry that provides rapid cross-Lake Michigan service between Muskegon, Michigan, and Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
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C.
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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D.
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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E.
River Medina ferry
The River Medina ferry is a passenger and vehicle ferry service that crosses the River Medina, linking East Cowes with Cowes on the Isle of Wight.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
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: Manannan (fast ferry) Description of subject: Manannan is a high-speed catamaran ferry operated by the Isle of Man Steam Packet Company, providing fast passenger and vehicle services across the Irish Sea.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.