MV Samish
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MV Samish is a modern Olympic-class car and passenger ferry operated by Washington State Ferries in Puget Sound.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| MV Samish canonical | 2 |
| MV Suquamish | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1792094 — 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: MV Samish Context triple: [Washington State Ferries, notableVessel, MV Samish]
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A.
MV Puyallup
MV Puyallup is a large Jumbo Mark II-class passenger and vehicle ferry operating in the Washington State Ferries system, primarily serving busy routes in the Puget Sound region.
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B.
MV Wenatchee
MV Wenatchee is a Jumbo Mark II-class passenger and vehicle ferry operated by Washington State Ferries on routes across Puget Sound.
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C.
M/V Chenega
M/V Chenega is a high-speed passenger and vehicle ferry that operated as part of Alaska’s state-run Alaska Marine Highway System, serving coastal communities in Southeast and Southcentral Alaska.
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D.
M/V Matanuska
M/V Matanuska is a mainline roll-on/roll-off passenger and vehicle ferry serving coastal communities in Alaska as part of the state’s marine highway network.
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E.
M/V Tustumena
M/V Tustumena is a rugged Alaska Marine Highway ferry known for serving remote coastal communities and challenging open-ocean routes in the Gulf of Alaska and Aleutian Islands.
- 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: MV Samish Target entity description: MV Samish is a modern Olympic-class car and passenger ferry operated by Washington State Ferries in Puget Sound.
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A.
MV Puyallup
MV Puyallup is a large Jumbo Mark II-class passenger and vehicle ferry operating in the Washington State Ferries system, primarily serving busy routes in the Puget Sound region.
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B.
MV Wenatchee
MV Wenatchee is a Jumbo Mark II-class passenger and vehicle ferry operated by Washington State Ferries on routes across Puget Sound.
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C.
M/V Chenega
M/V Chenega is a high-speed passenger and vehicle ferry that operated as part of Alaska’s state-run Alaska Marine Highway System, serving coastal communities in Southeast and Southcentral Alaska.
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D.
M/V Matanuska
M/V Matanuska is a mainline roll-on/roll-off passenger and vehicle ferry serving coastal communities in Alaska as part of the state’s marine highway network.
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E.
M/V Tustumena
M/V Tustumena is a rugged Alaska Marine Highway ferry known for serving remote coastal communities and challenging open-ocean routes in the Gulf of Alaska and Aleutian Islands.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
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: MV Samish Description of subject: MV Samish is a modern Olympic-class car and passenger ferry operated by Washington State Ferries in Puget Sound.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: MV Samish
linked to: MV Samish