Dry Dock No. 3
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Dry Dock No. 3 is a historic 19th-century stone dry dock at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, notable for its role in U.S. naval shipbuilding and repair.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Dry Dock No. 3 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1331777 — 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: Dry Dock No. 3 Context triple: [Brooklyn Navy Yard, hasHistoricStructure, Dry Dock No. 3]
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A.
Dry Dock No. 2
Dry Dock No. 2 is a historic early-19th-century stone dry dock at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, notable for its role in U.S. naval shipbuilding and maritime engineering.
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B.
Dry Dock No. 1
Dry Dock No. 1 is a historic 19th-century stone dry dock at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, notable as one of the oldest surviving naval dry docks in the United States.
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C.
Portsmouth Naval Shipyard
Portsmouth Naval Shipyard is a historic U.S. Navy shipbuilding and repair facility located in Kittery, Maine, known especially for constructing and overhauling naval vessels including submarines.
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D.
Eldean Shipyard
Eldean Shipyard is a full-service marina and boatyard located on Lake Macatawa in Michigan, known for its docking, storage, and marine maintenance services.
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E.
Mare Island Naval Shipyard
Mare Island Naval Shipyard was a major U.S. Navy shipbuilding and repair facility in Vallejo, California, notable as one of the first permanent naval shipyards on the West Coast.
- 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: Dry Dock No. 3 Target entity description: Dry Dock No. 3 is a historic 19th-century stone dry dock at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, notable for its role in U.S. naval shipbuilding and repair.
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A.
Dry Dock No. 2
Dry Dock No. 2 is a historic early-19th-century stone dry dock at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, notable for its role in U.S. naval shipbuilding and maritime engineering.
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B.
Dry Dock No. 1
Dry Dock No. 1 is a historic 19th-century stone dry dock at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, notable as one of the oldest surviving naval dry docks in the United States.
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C.
Portsmouth Naval Shipyard
Portsmouth Naval Shipyard is a historic U.S. Navy shipbuilding and repair facility located in Kittery, Maine, known especially for constructing and overhauling naval vessels including submarines.
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D.
Eldean Shipyard
Eldean Shipyard is a full-service marina and boatyard located on Lake Macatawa in Michigan, known for its docking, storage, and marine maintenance services.
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E.
Mare Island Naval Shipyard
Mare Island Naval Shipyard was a major U.S. Navy shipbuilding and repair facility in Vallejo, California, notable as one of the first permanent naval shipyards on the West Coast.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (18)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
19th-century infrastructure
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dry dock ⓘ historic structure ⓘ |
| country |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| era | 19th century ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | historic ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Brooklyn
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New York ⓘ New York City ⓘ United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| location | Brooklyn Navy Yard ⓘ |
| material | stone ⓘ |
| partOf | Brooklyn Navy Yard ⓘ |
| significance |
notable for role in U.S. naval ship repair
ⓘ
notable for role in U.S. naval shipbuilding ⓘ |
| usedBy | United States Navy ⓘ |
| usedFor |
ship repair
ⓘ
shipbuilding ⓘ |
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: Dry Dock No. 3 Description of subject: Dry Dock No. 3 is a historic 19th-century stone dry dock at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, notable for its role in U.S. naval shipbuilding and repair.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.