Baltimore Harbor
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Baltimore Harbor is a historic seaport in Baltimore, Maryland, best known as the site of the War of 1812 battle that inspired the United States national anthem.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Baltimore Harbor canonical | 12 |
| Baltimore harbor area | 1 |
| City of Baltimore diverted streams, causing sediment buildup that ruined Barron’s wharf | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T17330 — 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: Baltimore Harbor Context triple: [The Star-Spangled Banner, writtenAtLocation, Baltimore Harbor]
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Jamaica Bay
Jamaica Bay is a large, wildlife-rich estuary on the southern shore of Long Island in New York City, known for its marshes, bird habitats, and inclusion within the Gateway National Recreation Area.
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B.
Boston Harbor
Boston Harbor is a natural harbor and estuary of Massachusetts Bay that serves as the historic maritime gateway to the city of Boston and a major hub of shipping, recreation, and coastal ecology in New England.
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East River
The East River is a tidal strait in New York City that separates Manhattan from Brooklyn and Queens and serves as a major waterway spanned by several iconic bridges.
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Upper New York Bay
Upper New York Bay is a tidal estuary in New York Harbor, bordered by Manhattan, Brooklyn, Staten Island, and New Jersey, that serves as a major shipping channel and gateway between the Atlantic Ocean and the inland waterways of the northeastern United States.
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E.
Nantucket Sound
Nantucket Sound is a shallow, island-fringed body of water off the southern coast of Massachusetts, known for its maritime history, beaches, and recreational boating.
- 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: Baltimore Harbor Target entity description: Baltimore Harbor is a historic seaport in Baltimore, Maryland, best known as the site of the War of 1812 battle that inspired the United States national anthem.
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A.
Jamaica Bay
Jamaica Bay is a large, wildlife-rich estuary on the southern shore of Long Island in New York City, known for its marshes, bird habitats, and inclusion within the Gateway National Recreation Area.
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B.
Boston Harbor
Boston Harbor is a natural harbor and estuary of Massachusetts Bay that serves as the historic maritime gateway to the city of Boston and a major hub of shipping, recreation, and coastal ecology in New England.
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C.
East River
The East River is a tidal strait in New York City that separates Manhattan from Brooklyn and Queens and serves as a major waterway spanned by several iconic bridges.
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D.
Upper New York Bay
Upper New York Bay is a tidal estuary in New York Harbor, bordered by Manhattan, Brooklyn, Staten Island, and New Jersey, that serves as a major shipping channel and gateway between the Atlantic Ocean and the inland waterways of the northeastern United States.
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E.
Nantucket Sound
Nantucket Sound is a shallow, island-fringed body of water off the southern coast of Massachusetts, known for its maritime history, beaches, and recreational boating.
- 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: Baltimore Harbor Description of subject: Baltimore Harbor is a historic seaport in Baltimore, Maryland, best known as the site of the War of 1812 battle that inspired the United States national anthem.
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Barron v. Baltimore
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City of Baltimore diverted streams, causing sediment buildup that ruined Barron’s wharf
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linked to: Baltimore Harbor
linked to: Baltimore Harbor