Outer Island Light
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Outer Island Light is a historic lighthouse located on Outer Island in Wisconsin’s Apostle Islands, guiding ships navigating Lake Superior.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Outer Island Lighthouse | 2 |
| Outer Island Light canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1035724 — 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: Outer Island Light Context triple: [Apostle Islands, hasLighthouse, Outer Island Light]
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A.
Sand Island Light
Sand Island Light is a historic lighthouse located on Sand Island in Lake Superior, known for guiding ships through the Apostle Islands region of Wisconsin.
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B.
Ten Pound Island Light
Ten Pound Island Light is a historic lighthouse located on Ten Pound Island in Gloucester Harbor, Massachusetts, that once guided maritime traffic into the busy fishing port.
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C.
Raspberry Island Light
Raspberry Island Light is a historic lighthouse located on Raspberry Island in Wisconsin’s Apostle Islands, guiding navigation on Lake Superior.
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D.
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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E.
Brant Point Light
Brant Point Light is a historic lighthouse on Nantucket Island, Massachusetts, guiding vessels into Nantucket Harbor and known as one of the oldest lighthouse sites in the United States.
- 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: Outer Island Light Target entity description: Outer Island Light is a historic lighthouse located on Outer Island in Wisconsin’s Apostle Islands, guiding ships navigating Lake Superior.
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A.
Sand Island Light
Sand Island Light is a historic lighthouse located on Sand Island in Lake Superior, known for guiding ships through the Apostle Islands region of Wisconsin.
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B.
Ten Pound Island Light
Ten Pound Island Light is a historic lighthouse located on Ten Pound Island in Gloucester Harbor, Massachusetts, that once guided maritime traffic into the busy fishing port.
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C.
Raspberry Island Light
Raspberry Island Light is a historic lighthouse located on Raspberry Island in Wisconsin’s Apostle Islands, guiding navigation on Lake Superior.
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D.
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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E.
Brant Point Light
Brant Point Light is a historic lighthouse on Nantucket Island, Massachusetts, guiding vessels into Nantucket Harbor and known as one of the oldest lighthouse sites in the United States.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
historic lighthouse
ⓘ
lighthouse ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Apostle Islands
ⓘ
United States Coast Guard ⓘ |
| bodyOfWater | Lake Superior ⓘ |
| category |
Buildings and structures in Ashland County, Wisconsin
ⓘ
Lighthouses in Wisconsin ⓘ Lighthouses on the Great Lakes ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| hasFunction | emits light for navigation ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | historic ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Apostle Islands
ⓘ
Lake Superior ⓘ Outer Island ⓘ United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
Wisconsin ⓘ |
| locatedInProtectedArea |
Apostle Islands National Lakeshore
ⓘ
linked to:
Apostle Islands
|
| locatedOnIsland | Outer Island ⓘ |
| navigationArea | western Lake Superior ⓘ |
| operatedOn |
Lake Superior shipping routes
ⓘ
linked to:
Duluth–Superior harbor and estuary system
|
| partOf |
Apostle Islands National Lakeshore
ⓘ
linked to:
Apostle Islands
|
| purpose |
aid to navigation
ⓘ
to guide ships ⓘ |
| region | Northern Wisconsin ⓘ |
| state | Wisconsin ⓘ |
| tourism | attracts visitors interested in maritime history ⓘ |
| usedFor |
maritime safety
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navigation aid for commercial vessels ⓘ navigation aid for recreational boats ⓘ |
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: Outer Island Light Description of subject: Outer Island Light is a historic lighthouse located on Outer Island in Wisconsin’s Apostle Islands, guiding ships navigating Lake Superior.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Outer Island Light
linked to: Outer Island Light