Port of Tacoma
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The Port of Tacoma is a major deep-water seaport in Washington State that serves as a key hub for international container shipping and trade in the Pacific Northwest.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Port of Tacoma canonical | 25 |
| Port of Tacoma Commission | 2 |
| Port of Tacoma area | 1 |
| Port of Tacoma container terminals | 1 |
| Port of Tacoma harbor system | 1 |
| Port of Tacoma marine terminals | 1 |
| Tacoma harbor facilities | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11952 — 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: Port of Tacoma Context triple: [West Coast of the United States, hasMajorPort, Port of Tacoma]
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A.
Port of Seattle
The Port of Seattle is a major Pacific Northwest seaport and aviation hub that manages cargo and cruise terminals as well as Seattle–Tacoma International Airport.
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B.
Port of Long Beach
The Port of Long Beach is one of the busiest and most important container seaports in the United States, serving as a major gateway for trans-Pacific trade.
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C.
Port of Los Angeles
The Port of Los Angeles is the busiest container port in the United States and a major gateway for trans-Pacific trade, located in San Pedro Bay in Southern California.
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D.
Port of Boston
The Port of Boston is a major New England seaport and transportation hub handling cargo, cruise ships, and maritime commerce for the Boston metropolitan area.
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E.
Yaquina Bay
Yaquina Bay is a coastal estuary on the central Oregon coast known for its rich marine ecosystems, fisheries, and role as a hub for marine research and recreation.
- 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: Port of Tacoma Target entity description: The Port of Tacoma is a major deep-water seaport in Washington State that serves as a key hub for international container shipping and trade in the Pacific Northwest.
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A.
Port of Seattle
The Port of Seattle is a major Pacific Northwest seaport and aviation hub that manages cargo and cruise terminals as well as Seattle–Tacoma International Airport.
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B.
Port of Long Beach
The Port of Long Beach is one of the busiest and most important container seaports in the United States, serving as a major gateway for trans-Pacific trade.
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C.
Port of Los Angeles
The Port of Los Angeles is the busiest container port in the United States and a major gateway for trans-Pacific trade, located in San Pedro Bay in Southern California.
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D.
Port of Boston
The Port of Boston is a major New England seaport and transportation hub handling cargo, cruise ships, and maritime commerce for the Boston metropolitan area.
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E.
Yaquina Bay
Yaquina Bay is a coastal estuary on the central Oregon coast known for its rich marine ecosystems, fisheries, and role as a hub for marine research and recreation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
deep-water port
ⓘ
public port authority ⓘ seaport ⓘ |
| allianceFormed | Northwest Seaport Alliance in 2015 ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| environmentalPrograms |
clean air initiatives
ⓘ
habitat restoration projects ⓘ |
| establishedBy | voters of Pierce County, Washington ⓘ |
| focusesOn | containerized trade with Asia ⓘ |
| founded | 1918 ⓘ |
| governanceType | special-purpose municipal corporation ⓘ |
| governingBody |
Port of Tacoma
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Port of Tacoma Commission
Port of Tacoma Commission of five elected commissioners ⓘ |
| handles |
breakbulk cargo
ⓘ
bulk commodities ⓘ containerized cargo ⓘ roll-on/roll-off cargo ⓘ |
| jurisdiction |
Pierce County
ⓘ
surface form:
Pierce County, Washington
|
| knownFor |
automobile import terminals
ⓘ
intermodal rail facilities ⓘ large container terminals ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Pacific Northwest
ⓘ
Pierce County ⓘ
surface form:
Pierce County, Washington
Puget Sound ⓘ Tacoma, Washington ⓘ |
| locatedOn |
Puget Sound
ⓘ
surface form:
Salish Sea
|
| nearbyCity |
Seattle, Washington, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
Seattle, Washington
|
| partner | Port of Seattle ⓘ |
| partOf |
Northwest Seaport Alliance
ⓘ
U.S. West Coast ports ⓘ |
| primaryFunction |
automobile imports and exports
ⓘ
breakbulk cargo handling ⓘ bulk cargo handling ⓘ international container shipping ⓘ marine cargo handling ⓘ |
| railConnections |
BNSF Railway
ⓘ
Union Pacific Railroad ⓘ |
| regionServed |
Asia-Pacific trade lanes
ⓘ
Pacific Northwest ⓘ Midwestern United States ⓘ
surface form:
U.S. Midwest
|
| roadConnections |
Interstate 5
ⓘ
State Route 167 ⓘ State Route 509 ⓘ |
| servesAs | gateway for trans-Pacific trade ⓘ |
| state | Washington ⓘ |
| UNLocode | US TAC ⓘ |
| waterway |
Commencement Bay
ⓘ
Puget Sound ⓘ |
| website | https://www.portoftacoma.com/ ⓘ |
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: Port of Tacoma Description of subject: The Port of Tacoma is a major deep-water seaport in Washington State that serves as a key hub for international container shipping and trade in the Pacific Northwest.
Referenced by (32)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Port of Tacoma Commission
this entity surface form:
Port of Tacoma container terminals
this entity surface form:
Tacoma harbor facilities
this entity surface form:
Port of Tacoma Commission
this entity surface form:
Port of Tacoma marine terminals
this entity surface form:
Port of Tacoma harbor system
this entity surface form:
Port of Tacoma area
subject surface form:
Washington (state)