Seattle Ferry Terminal
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The Seattle Ferry Terminal is a major waterfront transportation hub in downtown Seattle that serves as the primary departure point for Washington State Ferries across Puget Sound.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Seattle Ferry Terminal canonical | 14 |
| Seattle Ferry Terminal (Colman Dock) | 1 |
| Seattle ferry terminal | 1 |
| Seattle ferry terminal area | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1902893 — 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: Seattle Ferry Terminal Context triple: [Downtown Seattle, contains, Seattle Ferry Terminal]
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A.
Bainbridge Island Ferry Terminal
Bainbridge Island Ferry Terminal is a major Washington State Ferries terminal connecting Bainbridge Island with downtown Seattle across Puget Sound.
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B.
Seattle King Street Station
Seattle King Street Station is a historic railway terminal in downtown Seattle that serves as a major Amtrak and commuter rail hub for the Pacific Northwest.
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C.
Fisherman’s Wharf
Fisherman’s Wharf is a popular waterfront attraction in Victoria, British Columbia, known for its colorful floating homes, seafood eateries, and marine wildlife viewing.
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D.
Fisherman’s Wharf
Fisherman’s Wharf is a popular waterfront neighborhood and tourist destination in San Francisco known for its seafood restaurants, historic piers, and views of the bay and Alcatraz Island.
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E.
Fisherman’s Wharf
Fisherman’s Wharf is a historic waterfront district in Monterey, California, known for its seafood restaurants, marine wildlife viewing, and tourist-oriented shops and attractions.
- 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: Seattle Ferry Terminal Target entity description: The Seattle Ferry Terminal is a major waterfront transportation hub in downtown Seattle that serves as the primary departure point for Washington State Ferries across Puget Sound.
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A.
Bainbridge Island Ferry Terminal
Bainbridge Island Ferry Terminal is a major Washington State Ferries terminal connecting Bainbridge Island with downtown Seattle across Puget Sound.
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B.
Seattle King Street Station
Seattle King Street Station is a historic railway terminal in downtown Seattle that serves as a major Amtrak and commuter rail hub for the Pacific Northwest.
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C.
Fisherman’s Wharf
Fisherman’s Wharf is a popular waterfront attraction in Victoria, British Columbia, known for its colorful floating homes, seafood eateries, and marine wildlife viewing.
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D.
Fisherman’s Wharf
Fisherman’s Wharf is a popular waterfront neighborhood and tourist destination in San Francisco known for its seafood restaurants, historic piers, and views of the bay and Alcatraz Island.
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E.
Fisherman’s Wharf
Fisherman’s Wharf is a historic waterfront district in Monterey, California, known for its seafood restaurants, marine wildlife viewing, and tourist-oriented shops and attractions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
building
ⓘ
ferry terminal ⓘ transportation hub ⓘ |
| accessibleBy |
bicycles
ⓘ
motor vehicles ⓘ pedestrians ⓘ |
| adjacentTo | Colman Dock ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Colman Dock ferry terminal
ⓘ
linked to:
Colman Dock
|
| connectedTo |
King County Metro bus services
ⓘ
linked to:
King County Metro services
Link light rail via nearby stations ⓘ |
| connectsTo |
Bainbridge Island
ⓘ
Bremerton ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| hasFacility |
food and retail concessions
ⓘ
passenger waiting area ⓘ restrooms ⓘ ticketing facilities ⓘ vehicle holding area ⓘ |
| hasRoute |
Seattle–Bainbridge Island ferry route
ⓘ
Seattle–Bremerton ferry route ⓘ
linked to:
Seattle–Bremerton ferry
|
| hasViewOf |
Olympic Mountains
ⓘ
Puget Sound ⓘ Seattle skyline ⓘ |
| isMajorNodeIn |
Seattle transportation network
ⓘ
Washington State ferry network ⓘ
linked to:
Washington State Ferries
|
| locatedIn |
Seattle
ⓘ
Washington ⓘ downtown Seattle ⓘ |
| locatedOn |
Elliott Bay
ⓘ
Seattle waterfront ⓘ
linked to:
Seattle waterfront piers
|
| near |
Pioneer Square neighborhood
ⓘ
linked to:
Pioneer Square
Seattle downtown business district ⓘ
linked to:
Central Business District of Seattle
|
| operatedBy | Washington State Ferries ⓘ |
| ownedBy | Washington State Department of Transportation ⓘ |
| partOf |
Washington State Ferries system
ⓘ
linked to:
Washington State Ferries
|
| primaryFunction |
ferry passenger terminal
ⓘ
vehicle ferry terminal ⓘ |
| servesAs | primary departure point for Washington State Ferries from Seattle ⓘ |
| servesBodyOfWater | Puget Sound ⓘ |
| servesCity | Seattle ⓘ |
| servesRegion | Puget Sound region ⓘ |
| usedFor |
commuter travel
ⓘ
regional transportation ⓘ tourist travel ⓘ |
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: Seattle Ferry Terminal Description of subject: The Seattle Ferry Terminal is a major waterfront transportation hub in downtown Seattle that serves as the primary departure point for Washington State Ferries across Puget Sound.
Referenced by (17)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
downtown Seattle
linked to: Seattle Ferry Terminal
linked to: Seattle Ferry Terminal
linked to: Seattle Ferry Terminal