Manhattan Project sites
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Manhattan Project sites are historically significant locations across the United States associated with the research, development, and testing of the first nuclear weapons during World War II.
All labels observed (8)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T134129 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Manhattan Project sites Context triple: [Trinity test site, New Mexico, category, Manhattan Project sites]
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Manhattan Project National Historical Park (Los Alamos unit)
The Manhattan Project National Historical Park (Los Alamos unit) is a U.S. national historical park site that preserves and interprets key locations associated with the development of the atomic bomb during World War II in Los Alamos, New Mexico.
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Hanford Site, Washington
Hanford Site, Washington is a large decommissioned nuclear production complex along the Columbia River that was central to U.S. plutonium production during and after World War II and is now one of the nation’s most challenging environmental cleanup sites.
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Savannah River Site
Savannah River Site is a U.S. Department of Energy nuclear reservation in South Carolina historically used for producing materials for nuclear weapons and now focused on environmental cleanup and nuclear materials management.
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Manhattan Project
The Manhattan Project was the secret U.S.-led World War II research and development program that produced the first nuclear weapons.
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Los Alamos Laboratory
Los Alamos Laboratory was the secret U.S. research facility in New Mexico where the Manhattan Project developed the first atomic bombs during World War II.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Manhattan Project sites Target entity description: Manhattan Project sites are historically significant locations across the United States associated with the research, development, and testing of the first nuclear weapons during World War II.
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A.
Manhattan Project National Historical Park (Los Alamos unit)
The Manhattan Project National Historical Park (Los Alamos unit) is a U.S. national historical park site that preserves and interprets key locations associated with the development of the atomic bomb during World War II in Los Alamos, New Mexico.
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Hanford Site, Washington
Hanford Site, Washington is a large decommissioned nuclear production complex along the Columbia River that was central to U.S. plutonium production during and after World War II and is now one of the nation’s most challenging environmental cleanup sites.
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C.
Savannah River Site
Savannah River Site is a U.S. Department of Energy nuclear reservation in South Carolina historically used for producing materials for nuclear weapons and now focused on environmental cleanup and nuclear materials management.
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Manhattan Project
The Manhattan Project was the secret U.S.-led World War II research and development program that produced the first nuclear weapons.
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E.
Los Alamos Laboratory
Los Alamos Laboratory was the secret U.S. research facility in New Mexico where the Manhattan Project developed the first atomic bombs during World War II.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (55)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
World War II site category
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cultural heritage ensemble ⓘ group of historic sites ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| hasDesignation | Manhattan Project National Historical Park core sites ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Albuquerque Army Air Base support facilities
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linked to:
Kirtland Air Force Base
B Reactor, Hanford ⓘ
linked to:
Hanford production reactors
Chicago Pile-1 site ⓘ
linked to:
Chicago Pile-1
Clinton Engineer Works ⓘ Clinton Laboratories, Oak Ridge ⓘ
linked to:
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Columbia University Manhattan Project laboratories ⓘ
linked to:
Columbia Radiation Laboratory
Dayton Project facilities ⓘ Fernald Feed Materials Production Center precursor facilities ⓘ Hanford Engineer Works ⓘ
linked to:
Hanford Site, Washington
Hanford, Washington ⓘ
linked to:
Hanford Site, Washington
Harvard University cyclotron laboratory ⓘ Iowa Ordnance Plant ⓘ K-25 gaseous diffusion plant ⓘ
linked to:
K-25 Project
Linde Air Products uranium facilities ⓘ Los Alamos Laboratory ⓘ Los Alamos Trinity test preparation areas ⓘ Los Alamos, New Mexico ⓘ Mallinckrodt Chemical Works, St. Louis ⓘ Manhattan Engineer District headquarters in New York City ⓘ Manhattan Project National Historical Park – Hanford unit ⓘ Manhattan Project National Historical Park – Los Alamos unit ⓘ Manhattan Project National Historical Park – Oak Ridge unit ⓘ
linked to:
Oak Ridge History Museum
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Radiation Laboratory ⓘ Metallurgical Laboratory, University of Chicago ⓘ
linked to:
Chicago Metallurgical Laboratory
Niagara Falls uranium processing plants ⓘ Oak Ridge, Tennessee ⓘ Princeton University theoretical physics group facilities ⓘ Project Y technical area at Los Alamos ⓘ
linked to:
Los Alamos Laboratory
S-50 thermal diffusion plant ⓘ Sandia Base early nuclear weapons assembly facilities ⓘ Sante Fe office of the Manhattan Engineer District ⓘ Site W, Hanford production complex ⓘ
linked to:
Hanford Site, Washington
Site W, Washington, D.C. offices ⓘ Site X, Oak Ridge production complex ⓘ
linked to:
Oak Ridge Reservation
Site Y, Los Alamos laboratory complex ⓘ
linked to:
Los Alamos Laboratory
T Plant, Hanford ⓘ
linked to:
Hanford Site, Washington
Tinian Island B-29 staging facilities ⓘ
linked to:
Tinian
Trinity test site, Alamogordo Bombing and Gunnery Range ⓘ
linked to:
Trinity test site, New Mexico
University of California, Berkeley Radiation Laboratory ⓘ
linked to:
Radiation Laboratory
Weldon Spring Ordnance Works ⓘ Wendover Army Air Field training facilities ⓘ X-10 Graphite Reactor ⓘ
linked to:
X-10 graphite reactor
Y-12 electromagnetic separation plant ⓘ
linked to:
Y-12 National Security Complex
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| hasTimePeriod | World War II ⓘ |
| hasUse |
nuclear weapons research
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plutonium production ⓘ uranium enrichment ⓘ weapons design and testing ⓘ |
| significantEvent |
Trinity nuclear test
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linked to:
Trinity test device
development of the first nuclear weapons ⓘ |
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Subject: Manhattan Project sites Description of subject: Manhattan Project sites are historically significant locations across the United States associated with the research, development, and testing of the first nuclear weapons during World War II.
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