Penn Yan, New York
E180388
Penn Yan, New York is a small village in Yates County that serves as a gateway community to New York’s Finger Lakes wine and lake country region.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Penn Yan, New York canonical | 24 |
| Penn Yan | 7 |
| Penn Yan Village Police Department | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T553993 — 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: Penn Yan, New York Context triple: [Finger Lakes, contains, Penn Yan, New York]
-
A.
Lockport, New York
Lockport, New York is a small city in western New York State known for its historic canal locks and role as a key transportation hub along the Erie Canal.
-
B.
Hammondsport, New York
Hammondsport, New York is a small village at the southern tip of Keuka Lake renowned as the birthplace of aviation pioneer Glenn H. Curtiss and for its wineries and scenic Finger Lakes setting.
-
C.
Crown Point, New York
Crown Point, New York is a small town on the western shore of Lake Champlain known for its historic Revolutionary War-era forts and scenic Adirondack setting.
-
D.
Tonawanda, New York
Tonawanda, New York is a suburban town in Erie County, near Buffalo, known for its residential communities and location along the Niagara River.
-
E.
Centerport, New York
Centerport, New York is a hamlet and coastal community on Long Island’s North Shore known for its scenic harbor, affluent residential character, and location within the town of Huntington.
- 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: Penn Yan, New York Target entity description: Penn Yan, New York is a small village in Yates County that serves as a gateway community to New York’s Finger Lakes wine and lake country region.
-
A.
Lockport, New York
Lockport, New York is a small city in western New York State known for its historic canal locks and role as a key transportation hub along the Erie Canal.
-
B.
Hammondsport, New York
Hammondsport, New York is a small village at the southern tip of Keuka Lake renowned as the birthplace of aviation pioneer Glenn H. Curtiss and for its wineries and scenic Finger Lakes setting.
-
C.
Crown Point, New York
Crown Point, New York is a small town on the western shore of Lake Champlain known for its historic Revolutionary War-era forts and scenic Adirondack setting.
-
D.
Tonawanda, New York
Tonawanda, New York is a suburban town in Erie County, near Buffalo, known for its residential communities and location along the Niagara River.
-
E.
Centerport, New York
Centerport, New York is a hamlet and coastal community on Long Island’s North Shore known for its scenic harbor, affluent residential character, and location within the town of Huntington.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human settlement
ⓘ
village ⓘ |
| areaCode |
315
ⓘ
680 ⓘ |
| climate | humid continental climate ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| county | Yates County, New York NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| etymology | portmanteau of Penn (for Pennsylvania) and Yan (for Yankee) ⓘ |
| GNISFeatureID | 0960820 ⓘ |
| governmentType | village government ⓘ |
| hasEducationalInstitution | Penn Yan Central School District ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
access to Finger Lakes wine trails
ⓘ
historic downtown district ⓘ proximity to Keuka Lake recreational activities ⓘ |
| hasJurisdiction |
Penn Yan Village Police Department
ⓘ
linked to:
Penn Yan, New York
|
| isGatewayTo |
Finger Lakes lake country region
ⓘ
linked to:
Finger Lakes
New York Finger Lakes wine region ⓘ
linked to:
Finger Lakes wine region
|
| locatedIn |
Finger Lakes region
ⓘ
linked to:
Finger Lakes
Northeastern United States ⓘ United States Census Bureau Yates County region ⓘ Upstate New York ⓘ
linked to:
Upstate New York (broad sense)
|
| locatedNear | Keuka Lake ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Keuka Lake Outlet ⓘ |
| namedFor |
Pennsylvania
ⓘ
Yankee ⓘ |
| partOf | Town of Milo, New York ⓘ |
| postalCode | 14527 ⓘ |
| primaryEconomicActivity |
agriculture
ⓘ
tourism ⓘ wine-related tourism ⓘ |
| role | county seat of Yates County, New York ⓘ |
| state | New York ⓘ |
| timeZone | Eastern Time Zone ⓘ |
| timeZoneDST |
Eastern Daylight Time
ⓘ
linked to:
Eastern Time Zone
|
| transportation |
New York State Route 14A
ⓘ
New York State Route 54 ⓘ |
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: Penn Yan, New York Description of subject: Penn Yan, New York is a small village in Yates County that serves as a gateway community to New York’s Finger Lakes wine and lake country region.
Referenced by (32)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Penn Yan, New York
linked to: Penn Yan, New York
linked to: Penn Yan, New York
linked to: Penn Yan, New York
linked to: Penn Yan, New York
linked to: Penn Yan, New York
linked to: Penn Yan, New York
subject linked to:
Milo
subject linked to:
Milo
subject linked to:
Middlesex
subject linked to:
Dundee
linked to: Penn Yan, New York