Aerial Tram
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The Aerial Tram is a cable-driven urban transit system in Portland, Oregon, that carries passengers between the South Waterfront district and Oregon Health & Science University on Marquam Hill.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Portland Aerial Tram | 13 |
| Aerial Tram canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T54840 — 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: Aerial Tram Context triple: [Portland Streetcar, connectsWith, Aerial Tram]
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A.
Heavenly Gondola
Heavenly Gondola is a scenic aerial tramway at Heavenly Mountain Resort that transports visitors between South Lake Tahoe and the resort’s mountain slopes, offering panoramic views of the lake and surrounding Sierra Nevada.
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B.
Centennial Wheel
The Centennial Wheel is a large, modern Ferris wheel at Chicago’s Navy Pier that offers panoramic views of the city skyline and Lake Michigan.
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C.
Kirkwood Mountain Resort
Kirkwood Mountain Resort is a high-altitude ski and snowboard destination in the Sierra Nevada known for its deep snow, challenging terrain, and relatively remote, uncrowded setting near Lake Tahoe.
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D.
Heavenly Mountain Resort
Heavenly Mountain Resort is a major ski and snowboard destination in the Sierra Nevada known for its expansive terrain, vibrant après-ski scene, and panoramic views of Lake Tahoe.
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E.
Ebbetts Pass
Ebbetts Pass is a high mountain pass in California’s Sierra Nevada, known for its scenic, winding route and historic role as a trans-Sierra crossing.
- 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: Aerial Tram Target entity description: The Aerial Tram is a cable-driven urban transit system in Portland, Oregon, that carries passengers between the South Waterfront district and Oregon Health & Science University on Marquam Hill.
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A.
Heavenly Gondola
Heavenly Gondola is a scenic aerial tramway at Heavenly Mountain Resort that transports visitors between South Lake Tahoe and the resort’s mountain slopes, offering panoramic views of the lake and surrounding Sierra Nevada.
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B.
Centennial Wheel
The Centennial Wheel is a large, modern Ferris wheel at Chicago’s Navy Pier that offers panoramic views of the city skyline and Lake Michigan.
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C.
Kirkwood Mountain Resort
Kirkwood Mountain Resort is a high-altitude ski and snowboard destination in the Sierra Nevada known for its deep snow, challenging terrain, and relatively remote, uncrowded setting near Lake Tahoe.
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D.
Heavenly Mountain Resort
Heavenly Mountain Resort is a major ski and snowboard destination in the Sierra Nevada known for its expansive terrain, vibrant après-ski scene, and panoramic views of Lake Tahoe.
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E.
Ebbetts Pass
Ebbetts Pass is a high mountain pass in California’s Sierra Nevada, known for its scenic, winding route and historic role as a trans-Sierra crossing.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
aerial tramway
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public transit system ⓘ urban cable transport ⓘ |
| city |
Portland
ⓘ
linked to:
Portland, Oregon, United States
|
| connects |
Marquam Hill
ⓘ
Oregon Health & Science University ⓘ South Waterfront district ⓘ
linked to:
South Waterfront
|
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| function | connect hilltop campus to riverfront district ⓘ |
| hasBoardingPoint |
OHSU upper terminal
ⓘ
South Waterfront terminal ⓘ
linked to:
South Waterfront
|
| isPartOf | Portland public transportation network ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Portland, Oregon
ⓘ
linked to:
Portland, Oregon, United States
|
| modeOfTransport | mass transit ⓘ |
| notableFor | linking South Waterfront to OHSU on Marquam Hill ⓘ |
| operator | Oregon Health & Science University ⓘ |
| owner |
City of Portland
ⓘ
linked to:
Portland, Oregon, United States
|
| primaryUse | passenger transport ⓘ |
| routeType | point-to-point link ⓘ |
| serves |
Oregon Health & Science University campus
ⓘ
linked to:
Oregon Health & Science University
South Waterfront redevelopment area ⓘ |
| servesInstitution | Oregon Health & Science University ⓘ |
| state | Oregon ⓘ |
| systemType | aerial cableway ⓘ |
| transportType | cable-driven ⓘ |
| urbanContext |
Marquam Hill neighborhood
ⓘ
linked to:
Marquam Hill
South Waterfront district ⓘ
linked to:
South Waterfront
|
| usedFor |
commuting
ⓘ
medical campus access ⓘ tourism and sightseeing ⓘ |
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: Aerial Tram Description of subject: The Aerial Tram is a cable-driven urban transit system in Portland, Oregon, that carries passengers between the South Waterfront district and Oregon Health & Science University on Marquam Hill.
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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subject linked to:
Portland from Tualatin Valley
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