Half Moon
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Half Moon is the English name of the Dutch ship Halve Maen, famed for Henry Hudson’s 1609 voyage that led to the exploration of present-day New York.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Half Moon canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T172355 — 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: Half Moon Context triple: [Halve Maen, namedAfter, Half Moon]
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A.
Crescent
Crescent is a long-distance Amtrak passenger train that runs between New York City and New Orleans, serving major cities along the U.S. East Coast and Deep South.
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B.
Calypso Deep
Calypso Deep is the deepest known point in the Mediterranean Sea, located in the Hellenic Trench near Greece.
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C.
The Icebergs
The Icebergs is a monumental 1861 landscape painting by American artist Frederic Edwin Church, renowned for its dramatic, highly detailed depiction of Arctic ice formations and sublime natural grandeur.
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D.
The Voyage
"The Voyage" is an essay by Washington Irving that reflects on the emotions and experiences of transatlantic travel, serving as the opening piece in his collection *The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.*
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E.
Lightwater
Lightwater is a village and civil parish in the English county of Surrey, known for its residential character and proximity to heathland and countryside.
- 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: Half Moon Target entity description: Half Moon is the English name of the Dutch ship Halve Maen, famed for Henry Hudson’s 1609 voyage that led to the exploration of present-day New York.
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A.
Crescent
Crescent is a long-distance Amtrak passenger train that runs between New York City and New Orleans, serving major cities along the U.S. East Coast and Deep South.
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B.
Calypso Deep
Calypso Deep is the deepest known point in the Mediterranean Sea, located in the Hellenic Trench near Greece.
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C.
The Icebergs
The Icebergs is a monumental 1861 landscape painting by American artist Frederic Edwin Church, renowned for its dramatic, highly detailed depiction of Arctic ice formations and sublime natural grandeur.
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D.
The Voyage
"The Voyage" is an essay by Washington Irving that reflects on the emotions and experiences of transatlantic travel, serving as the opening piece in his collection *The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.*
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E.
Lightwater
Lightwater is a village and civil parish in the English county of Surrey, known for its residential character and proximity to heathland and countryside.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Dutch ship
ⓘ
exploration vessel ⓘ ship ⓘ |
| associatedWithEvent | European exploration of the Hudson River ⓘ |
| associatedWithPerson | Henry Hudson ⓘ |
| commandedBy | Henry Hudson ⓘ |
| exploredRegion |
Hudson River
ⓘ
New York Harbor ⓘ
linked to:
New York Harbor estuarine system
present-day New York ⓘ |
| flagCountry | Dutch Republic ⓘ |
| hasNameInDutch | Halve Maen ⓘ |
| hasNameInEnglish | Half Moon ⓘ |
| historicalSignificance |
early European exploration of the mid-Atlantic coast of North America
ⓘ
key role in the history of New York ⓘ |
| homePort | Amsterdam ⓘ |
| languageOfEnglishName | English ⓘ |
| languageOfOriginalName | Dutch ⓘ |
| laterOutcomeOfVoyage |
contributed to Dutch claims in North America
ⓘ
contributed to the exploration of present-day New York ⓘ |
| namedAfter | the lunar phase half moon ⓘ |
| notableVoyage | Henry Hudson’s 1609 voyage ⓘ |
| operatedBy |
Dutch East India Company
ⓘ
VOC ⓘ |
| operatedInCentury | 17th century ⓘ |
| purposeOfVoyage | search for a northeast passage to Asia ⓘ |
| sailingRouteAttempted | northeast passage to Asia ⓘ |
| voyageCommissionedBy | Dutch East India Company ⓘ |
| voyageStartYear | 1609 ⓘ |
| yearOfVoyage | 1609 ⓘ |
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: Half Moon Description of subject: Half Moon is the English name of the Dutch ship Halve Maen, famed for Henry Hudson’s 1609 voyage that led to the exploration of present-day New York.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.