Fort Gratiot Lighthouse
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Fort Gratiot Lighthouse is the oldest operating lighthouse in Michigan, standing at the entrance to the St. Clair River on Lake Huron and serving as a historic maritime landmark.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Fort Gratiot Lighthouse canonical | 4 |
| Fort Gratiot Light | 2 |
| Fort Gratiot Light Station | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T843832 — 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: Fort Gratiot Lighthouse Context triple: [Port Huron, Michigan, hasAttraction, Fort Gratiot Lighthouse]
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A.
South Manitou Island Lighthouse
South Manitou Island Lighthouse is a historic navigational beacon on South Manitou Island in Lake Michigan, known for guiding ships through the Manitou Passage and for its preserved 19th-century architecture.
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B.
Boca Chita Lighthouse
Boca Chita Lighthouse is a small, historic ornamental lighthouse located on Boca Chita Key in Biscayne National Park, Florida, known as a picturesque landmark rather than an active navigational aid.
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C.
Cape Blanco Lighthouse
Cape Blanco Lighthouse is a historic, still-operating beacon perched on the westernmost point of Oregon, guiding ships along the rugged Pacific coastline.
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D.
Great Point Light
Great Point Light is a historic lighthouse located at the northern tip of Nantucket Island, Massachusetts, guiding vessels through the surrounding coastal waters.
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E.
Drum Point Lighthouse
Drum Point Lighthouse is a historic screw-pile lighthouse originally built in the 19th century to mark the entrance to Maryland’s Patuxent River and now preserved as a museum exhibit.
- 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: Fort Gratiot Lighthouse Target entity description: Fort Gratiot Lighthouse is the oldest operating lighthouse in Michigan, standing at the entrance to the St. Clair River on Lake Huron and serving as a historic maritime landmark.
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A.
South Manitou Island Lighthouse
South Manitou Island Lighthouse is a historic navigational beacon on South Manitou Island in Lake Michigan, known for guiding ships through the Manitou Passage and for its preserved 19th-century architecture.
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B.
Boca Chita Lighthouse
Boca Chita Lighthouse is a small, historic ornamental lighthouse located on Boca Chita Key in Biscayne National Park, Florida, known as a picturesque landmark rather than an active navigational aid.
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C.
Cape Blanco Lighthouse
Cape Blanco Lighthouse is a historic, still-operating beacon perched on the westernmost point of Oregon, guiding ships along the rugged Pacific coastline.
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D.
Great Point Light
Great Point Light is a historic lighthouse located at the northern tip of Nantucket Island, Massachusetts, guiding vessels through the surrounding coastal waters.
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E.
Drum Point Lighthouse
Drum Point Lighthouse is a historic screw-pile lighthouse originally built in the 19th century to mark the entrance to Maryland’s Patuxent River and now preserved as a museum exhibit.
- 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: Fort Gratiot Lighthouse Description of subject: Fort Gratiot Lighthouse is the oldest operating lighthouse in Michigan, standing at the entrance to the St. Clair River on Lake Huron and serving as a historic maritime landmark.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Port Huron, Michigan, United States
linked to: Fort Gratiot Lighthouse
linked to: Fort Gratiot Lighthouse
linked to: Fort Gratiot Lighthouse