Des Moines, Washington (to the north)
E136765
Des Moines, Washington is a small waterfront city on Puget Sound in King County, situated between Seattle and Tacoma.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Des Moines, Washington (to the north) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1190955 — 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: Des Moines, Washington (to the north) Context triple: [Federal Way, Washington, borderedBy, Des Moines, Washington (to the north)]
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Pasco, Washington
Pasco, Washington is a city in southeastern Washington State that forms part of the Tri-Cities region and serves as a key agricultural, transportation, and commercial hub along the Columbia River.
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B.
Spokane, Washington
Spokane, Washington is a major city in eastern Washington State known for its historic downtown, Riverfront Park, and role as a regional economic and cultural hub of the Inland Northwest.
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C.
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.
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D.
Northwestern Washington
Northwestern Washington is a geographic region of the U.S. state of Washington encompassing its far northwestern counties along the Strait of Juan de Fuca and Puget Sound.
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E.
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.
- 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: Des Moines, Washington (to the north) Target entity description: Des Moines, Washington is a small waterfront city on Puget Sound in King County, situated between Seattle and Tacoma.
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A.
Pasco, Washington
Pasco, Washington is a city in southeastern Washington State that forms part of the Tri-Cities region and serves as a key agricultural, transportation, and commercial hub along the Columbia River.
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B.
Spokane, Washington
Spokane, Washington is a major city in eastern Washington State known for its historic downtown, Riverfront Park, and role as a regional economic and cultural hub of the Inland Northwest.
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C.
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.
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D.
Northwestern Washington
Northwestern Washington is a geographic region of the U.S. state of Washington encompassing its far northwestern counties along the Strait of Juan de Fuca and Puget Sound.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
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: Des Moines, Washington (to the north) Description of subject: Des Moines, Washington is a small waterfront city on Puget Sound in King County, situated between Seattle and Tacoma.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Federal Way, Washington, United States