Bellingham, Washington
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Bellingham, Washington is a coastal city in the northwestern United States known as a gateway to the San Juan Islands and Alaska, with a busy port, outdoor recreation, and a vibrant college-town atmosphere.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bellingham, Washington canonical | 115 |
| Bellingham | 17 |
| Bellingham, Washington, United States | 6 |
| Bellingham city center | 1 |
| Fairhaven, Bellingham, Washington | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T620420 — 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: Bellingham, Washington Context triple: [Alaska Marine Highway System, routeTerminus, Bellingham, Washington]
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Tacoma, Washington
Tacoma, Washington is a mid-sized port city in the Pacific Northwest known for its waterfront, industrial history, and vibrant arts and museum scene.
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Lacey, Washington
Lacey, Washington is a suburban city in Thurston County near Olympia, known for its proximity to state government centers and its role as a regional administrative and commercial hub.
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Forks, Washington
Forks, Washington is a small, rainy town on Washington State’s Olympic Peninsula best known as the primary real-world setting of the Twilight book and film series.
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Medina, Washington
Medina, Washington is an affluent suburban city on the eastern shore of Lake Washington, best known as the home of Bill Gates and other prominent tech figures.
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Vancouver, Washington
Vancouver, Washington is a mid-sized city in southwest Washington State, located on the north bank of the Columbia River across from Portland, Oregon.
- 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: Bellingham, Washington Target entity description: Bellingham, Washington is a coastal city in the northwestern United States known as a gateway to the San Juan Islands and Alaska, with a busy port, outdoor recreation, and a vibrant college-town atmosphere.
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Tacoma, Washington
Tacoma, Washington is a mid-sized port city in the Pacific Northwest known for its waterfront, industrial history, and vibrant arts and museum scene.
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B.
Lacey, Washington
Lacey, Washington is a suburban city in Thurston County near Olympia, known for its proximity to state government centers and its role as a regional administrative and commercial hub.
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C.
Forks, Washington
Forks, Washington is a small, rainy town on Washington State’s Olympic Peninsula best known as the primary real-world setting of the Twilight book and film series.
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D.
Medina, Washington
Medina, Washington is an affluent suburban city on the eastern shore of Lake Washington, best known as the home of Bill Gates and other prominent tech figures.
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E.
Vancouver, Washington
Vancouver, Washington is a mid-sized city in southwest Washington State, located on the north bank of the Columbia River across from Portland, Oregon.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Bellingham, Washington Description of subject: Bellingham, Washington is a coastal city in the northwestern United States known as a gateway to the San Juan Islands and Alaska, with a busy port, outdoor recreation, and a vibrant college-town atmosphere.
Referenced by (140)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Washington, United States
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George Dyson (science historian)
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Mount Vernon