Goat Island
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Goat Island is a small historic island in Sydney Harbour known for its former use as a convict site, quarry, and later maritime and industrial facility.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Goat Island canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1379209 — 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: Goat Island Context triple: [Sydney Harbour, hasIsland, Goat Island]
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A.
Goat Island
Goat Island, now known as Yerba Buena Island, is a natural island in San Francisco Bay situated between San Francisco and Oakland and connected to both by the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge.
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B.
Amity Island
Amity Island is the fictional New England resort town that serves as the primary setting for the shark attacks in the film "Jaws."
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C.
Powell Island
Powell Island is a largely ice-covered, uninhabited island in the South Orkney Islands of the Southern Ocean, known for its rugged terrain and importance as a habitat for Antarctic seabirds and seals.
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D.
Rose Island
Rose Island is a small, uninhabited coral islet within American Samoa’s Rose Atoll, known for its protected marine and bird habitats.
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E.
Half Moon Island
Half Moon Island is a small, crescent-shaped Antarctic island in the South Shetland Islands, known for its penguin colonies and use as a site for scientific research stations.
- 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: Goat Island Target entity description: Goat Island is a small historic island in Sydney Harbour known for its former use as a convict site, quarry, and later maritime and industrial facility.
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A.
Goat Island
Goat Island, now known as Yerba Buena Island, is a natural island in San Francisco Bay situated between San Francisco and Oakland and connected to both by the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge.
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B.
Amity Island
Amity Island is the fictional New England resort town that serves as the primary setting for the shark attacks in the film "Jaws."
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C.
Powell Island
Powell Island is a largely ice-covered, uninhabited island in the South Orkney Islands of the Southern Ocean, known for its rugged terrain and importance as a habitat for Antarctic seabirds and seals.
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D.
Rose Island
Rose Island is a small, uninhabited coral islet within American Samoa’s Rose Atoll, known for its protected marine and bird habitats.
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E.
Half Moon Island
Half Moon Island is a small, crescent-shaped Antarctic island in the South Shetland Islands, known for its penguin colonies and use as a site for scientific research stations.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
historic site
ⓘ
island ⓘ |
| accessibleBy | boat ⓘ |
| country | Australia ⓘ |
| formerName | Memel Island ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
historic sandstone buildings
ⓘ
maritime infrastructure ⓘ quarry faces ⓘ wharves ⓘ |
| hasHeritageValue |
convict heritage
ⓘ
industrial heritage ⓘ maritime heritage ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | listed on the New South Wales State Heritage Register ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
New South Wales
ⓘ
Port Jackson ⓘ
linked to:
Sydney Harbour
Sydney ⓘ Sydney Harbour ⓘ Sydney Harbour National Park ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Balmain
ⓘ
Millers Point ⓘ Pyrmont ⓘ |
| managedBy | New South Wales National Parks and Wildlife Service ⓘ |
| namedBy | European colonists ⓘ |
| partOf |
City of Sydney
ⓘ
Sydney Harbour islands ⓘ
linked to:
Sydney Harbour Islands
|
| timePeriodOfSignificance |
19th century
ⓘ
early colonial period of New South Wales ⓘ |
| usedAs |
filming location
ⓘ
tourist destination ⓘ |
| usedFor |
convict site
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harbour services base ⓘ industrial facility ⓘ maritime facility ⓘ quarry ⓘ shipyard ⓘ storage of gunpowder ⓘ |
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: Goat Island Description of subject: Goat Island is a small historic island in Sydney Harbour known for its former use as a convict site, quarry, and later maritime and industrial facility.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.