Black Rock beacon
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Black Rock beacon is a navigational marker located near Falmouth Harbour that helps guide vessels safely through the surrounding waters.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Black Rock beacon canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11842703 — 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: Black Rock beacon Context triple: [Falmouth Harbour, hasNavigationAid, Black Rock beacon]
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A.
Belisha beacon
A Belisha beacon is a flashing amber globe mounted on a black-and-white striped pole used to mark pedestrian crossings, particularly in the United Kingdom.
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B.
Lighthouse Rock
Lighthouse Rock is a prominent, naturally eroded sandstone formation and popular hiking landmark in Texas’s Palo Duro Canyon.
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C.
Elie Ness Lighthouse
Elie Ness Lighthouse is a small, early-20th-century coastal lighthouse in Fife, Scotland, known for guiding ships in the Firth of Forth and its picturesque setting near the village of Elie.
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D.
Sankaty Head Light
Sankaty Head Light is a historic lighthouse on the eastern shore of Nantucket, Massachusetts, known for guiding ships along the treacherous waters off the island since the mid-19th century.
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E.
Bell Rock Lighthouse
Bell Rock Lighthouse is a historic offshore lighthouse built on the dangerous Bell Rock reef in the North Sea off the coast of Angus, Scotland, and is renowned as one of the oldest surviving sea-washed lighthouses in the world.
- 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: Black Rock beacon Target entity description: Black Rock beacon is a navigational marker located near Falmouth Harbour that helps guide vessels safely through the surrounding waters.
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A.
Belisha beacon
A Belisha beacon is a flashing amber globe mounted on a black-and-white striped pole used to mark pedestrian crossings, particularly in the United Kingdom.
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B.
Lighthouse Rock
Lighthouse Rock is a prominent, naturally eroded sandstone formation and popular hiking landmark in Texas’s Palo Duro Canyon.
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C.
Elie Ness Lighthouse
Elie Ness Lighthouse is a small, early-20th-century coastal lighthouse in Fife, Scotland, known for guiding ships in the Firth of Forth and its picturesque setting near the village of Elie.
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D.
Sankaty Head Light
Sankaty Head Light is a historic lighthouse on the eastern shore of Nantucket, Massachusetts, known for guiding ships along the treacherous waters off the island since the mid-19th century.
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E.
Bell Rock Lighthouse
Bell Rock Lighthouse is a historic offshore lighthouse built on the dangerous Bell Rock reef in the North Sea off the coast of Angus, Scotland, and is renowned as one of the oldest surviving sea-washed lighthouses in the world.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (16)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
maritime navigational aid
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navigational beacon ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
harbour navigation
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marine safety ⓘ |
| category | navigation marker ⓘ |
| environment | coastal waters ⓘ |
| function | to guide vessels safely through surrounding waters ⓘ |
| hasRole | aid to navigation ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Falmouth Harbour ⓘ |
| operatesIn | marine environment ⓘ |
| purpose | to mark hazards or channels for navigation ⓘ |
| relevanceTo |
local shipping traffic
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maritime transport ⓘ |
| usedBy |
boats
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ships ⓘ vessels ⓘ |
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: Black Rock beacon Description of subject: Black Rock beacon is a navigational marker located near Falmouth Harbour that helps guide vessels safely through the surrounding waters.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.