Beaver
E1764
Beaver was one of the British ships in Boston Harbor whose tea cargo was destroyed during the Boston Tea Party protest in 1773.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Beaver canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7497 — 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: Beaver Context triple: [Boston Tea Party, shipInvolved, Beaver]
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A.
Beavers
The Beavers are the athletic teams representing Oregon State University in NCAA Division I sports.
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B.
Tim the Beaver
Tim the Beaver is the official mascot of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, symbolizing the school’s emphasis on engineering, ingenuity, and industriousness.
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C.
Lick
Lick is the nickname of Joseph Carl Robnett Licklider, a pioneering American computer scientist whose ideas helped lay the foundations for interactive computing and the internet.
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D.
de Forest
de Forest is a surname most notably associated with Lee de Forest, an American inventor and early pioneer of radio and electronic communication.
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E.
California quail
The California quail is a small, plump New World quail known for its distinctive forward-curving head plume and sociable covey behavior in shrubland and chaparral habitats.
- 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: Beaver Target entity description: Beaver was one of the British ships in Boston Harbor whose tea cargo was destroyed during the Boston Tea Party protest in 1773.
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A.
Beavers
The Beavers are the athletic teams representing Oregon State University in NCAA Division I sports.
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B.
Tim the Beaver
Tim the Beaver is the official mascot of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, symbolizing the school’s emphasis on engineering, ingenuity, and industriousness.
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C.
Mojave ground squirrel
The Mojave ground squirrel is a small, burrowing rodent native to arid regions of the southwestern United States, adapted to desert life with seasonal dormancy and a diet of seeds and vegetation.
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D.
mule deer
The mule deer is a North American deer species known for its large, mule-like ears and adaptability to a wide range of habitats, from mountains and forests to deserts.
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E.
Lick
Lick is the nickname of Joseph Carl Robnett Licklider, a pioneering American computer scientist whose ideas helped lay the foundations for interactive computing and the internet.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British merchant ship
ⓘ
ship ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Patriot protest in Boston
ⓘ
Sons of Liberty ⓘ |
| cargoOwner | British East India Company ⓘ |
| cargoStatusDuringBostonTeaParty | destroyed ⓘ |
| cargoType | East India Company tea ⓘ |
| causeOfEventOnboard | protest against taxation without representation ⓘ |
| country | Great Britain ⓘ |
| eventDate |
16 December 1773
ⓘ
1773-12-16 ⓘ |
| eventRole | tea transport vessel ⓘ |
| flag | British flag ⓘ |
| hasCargo | tea ⓘ |
| historicalSignificance | site of tea destruction during Boston Tea Party ⓘ |
| involvedInConflict | American colonial resistance to Tea Act ⓘ |
| locatedInTimePeriod | 18th century ⓘ |
| locationDuringBostonTeaParty |
Boston Harbor, Province of Massachusetts Bay
ⓘ
linked to:
Boston Harbor
|
| locationOfEvent | Boston Harbor ⓘ |
| operatedBy | British East India Company ⓘ |
| participatedIn | Boston Tea Party ⓘ |
| partOf | British Atlantic trade ⓘ |
| partOfSeriesOfEvents | escalation leading to American Revolutionary War ⓘ |
| portOfCall |
Boston
ⓘ
linked to:
Boston, Massachusetts
|
| relatedTo |
American Revolution
ⓘ
linked to:
American Revolutionary War
Tea Act 1773 ⓘ
linked to:
Tea Act
|
| sharesEventWith |
Dartmouth
ⓘ
Eleanor ⓘ |
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: Beaver Description of subject: Beaver was one of the British ships in Boston Harbor whose tea cargo was destroyed during the Boston Tea Party protest in 1773.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.