Yonkers, New York
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Yonkers, New York is a major suburban city just north of New York City, known for its historic waterfront, diverse neighborhoods, and role as one of the largest cities in the state.
All labels observed (8)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Yonkers, New York canonical | 77 |
| Yonkers | 33 |
| Yonkers, New York, United States | 23 |
| City of Yonkers | 13 |
| City of Yonkers, New York | 1 |
| Northeast Yonkers | 1 |
| Yonkers, New York, United States of America | 1 |
| downtown Yonkers | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3850 — 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: Yonkers, New York Context triple: [Hudson River, flowsThrough, Yonkers, New York]
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The Bronx
The Bronx is one of the five boroughs of New York City, known as the birthplace of hip-hop and home to Yankee Stadium and the Bronx Zoo.
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Newburgh, New York
Newburgh, New York is a historic city in the Hudson Valley known for its waterfront along the Hudson River and its significant role in early American history.
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Brooklyn
Brooklyn is a populous and culturally diverse borough of New York City known for its distinct neighborhoods, arts scene, and iconic landmarks like the Brooklyn Bridge.
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Kingston, New York
Kingston, New York is a historic city in the Hudson Valley that served as the first capital of New York State and is known for its well-preserved colonial architecture and waterfront district.
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Jersey City
Jersey City is a major New Jersey city across the Hudson River from Lower Manhattan, known for its waterfront skyline, diverse communities, and role as a key financial and transportation hub in the New York metropolitan area.
- 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: Yonkers, New York Target entity description: Yonkers, New York is a major suburban city just north of New York City, known for its historic waterfront, diverse neighborhoods, and role as one of the largest cities in the state.
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The Bronx
The Bronx is one of the five boroughs of New York City, known as the birthplace of hip-hop and home to Yankee Stadium and the Bronx Zoo.
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Newburgh, New York
Newburgh, New York is a historic city in the Hudson Valley known for its waterfront along the Hudson River and its significant role in early American history.
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Brooklyn
Brooklyn is a populous and culturally diverse borough of New York City known for its distinct neighborhoods, arts scene, and iconic landmarks like the Brooklyn Bridge.
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Kingston, New York
Kingston, New York is a historic city in the Hudson Valley that served as the first capital of New York State and is known for its well-preserved colonial architecture and waterfront district.
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Jersey City
Jersey City is a major New Jersey city across the Hudson River from Lower Manhattan, known for its waterfront skyline, diverse communities, and role as a key financial and transportation hub in the New York metropolitan area.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (61)
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: Yonkers, New York Description of subject: Yonkers, New York is a major suburban city just north of New York City, known for its historic waterfront, diverse neighborhoods, and role as one of the largest cities in the state.
Referenced by (150)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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U.S. state of New York
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