Castle Clinton
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Castle Clinton is a historic fort and former immigration station in Lower Manhattan, now serving as a national monument and visitor center.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Castle Clinton canonical | 6 |
| Castle Clinton National Monument | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1989413 — 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: Castle Clinton Context triple: [Battery Park, contains, Castle Clinton]
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A.
Fort Point
Fort Point is a prominent headland in Gloucester, Massachusetts, that helps form the entrance to Gloucester Harbor and has historically hosted defensive and navigational structures.
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B.
Beekman Tower
Beekman Tower is a striking, undulating residential skyscraper in Lower Manhattan designed by architect Frank Gehry.
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C.
Fort Point National Historic Site
Fort Point National Historic Site is a 19th-century brick fortification in San Francisco, California, best known for its strategic position beneath the Golden Gate Bridge and its role in coastal defense during the Civil War.
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D.
Carpenters' Hall
Carpenters' Hall is a historic 18th-century meeting hall in Philadelphia best known as the site where the First Continental Congress convened in 1774.
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E.
Federal Hall National Memorial
Federal Hall National Memorial is a historic site in New York City that commemorates the location of the first U.S. Capitol and George Washington’s inauguration as the nation’s first president.
- 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: Castle Clinton Target entity description: Castle Clinton is a historic fort and former immigration station in Lower Manhattan, now serving as a national monument and visitor center.
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A.
Fort Point
Fort Point is a prominent headland in Gloucester, Massachusetts, that helps form the entrance to Gloucester Harbor and has historically hosted defensive and navigational structures.
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B.
Beekman Tower
Beekman Tower is a striking, undulating residential skyscraper in Lower Manhattan designed by architect Frank Gehry.
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C.
Fort Point National Historic Site
Fort Point National Historic Site is a 19th-century brick fortification in San Francisco, California, best known for its strategic position beneath the Golden Gate Bridge and its role in coastal defense during the Civil War.
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D.
Carpenters' Hall
Carpenters' Hall is a historic 18th-century meeting hall in Philadelphia best known as the site where the First Continental Congress convened in 1774.
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E.
Federal Hall National Memorial
Federal Hall National Memorial is a historic site in New York City that commemorates the location of the first U.S. Capitol and George Washington’s inauguration as the nation’s first president.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
former immigration station
ⓘ
historic fort ⓘ national monument ⓘ tourist attraction ⓘ visitor center ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | sandstone fortification ⓘ |
| builtFor | harbor defense of New York City ⓘ |
| category |
Forts in Manhattan
ⓘ
Immigration to the United States ⓘ National Monuments in New York City ⓘ |
| constructionStartDate | 1808 ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| hasFeature |
central courtyard
ⓘ
gun emplacements ⓘ sally port entrance ⓘ thick masonry walls ⓘ |
| hasFormerName |
Castle Garden
ⓘ
West Battery ⓘ |
| heritageDesignation | U.S. National Monument ⓘ |
| heritageDesignationDate | 1946 ⓘ |
| immigrationStationEndDate | 1890 ⓘ |
| immigrationStationStartDate | 1855 ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Lower Manhattan
ⓘ
Manhattan ⓘ New York City ⓘ New York State ⓘ
linked to:
New York
United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| locatedOn | Hudson River waterfront ⓘ |
| location |
Battery Park
ⓘ
linked to:
Battery Park, Manhattan
|
| materialUsed | red sandstone ⓘ |
| namedAfter | DeWitt Clinton ⓘ |
| near |
Battery Park waterfront promenade
ⓘ
linked to:
Battery Park, Manhattan
Bowling Green ⓘ |
| opened | 1811 ⓘ |
| operatedBy | National Park Service ⓘ |
| partOf |
Battery Park National Register Historic District
ⓘ
Statue of Liberty National Monument administrative unit ⓘ
linked to:
Statue of Liberty National Monument
|
| replacedBy |
Ellis Island Immigration Station
ⓘ
linked to:
Ellis Island
|
| shape | oval ⓘ |
| ticketOfficeFor |
ferries to Ellis Island
ⓘ
ferries to Statue of Liberty ⓘ |
| usedAs |
beer garden
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coastal defense fort ⓘ entertainment center ⓘ exhibition hall ⓘ immigration station ⓘ military garrison ⓘ opera house ⓘ public aquarium ⓘ |
| visitorCenterFor |
Ellis Island National Museum of Immigration
ⓘ
linked to:
Ellis Island
Statue of Liberty National Monument ⓘ |
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: Castle Clinton Description of subject: Castle Clinton is a historic fort and former immigration station in Lower Manhattan, now serving as a national monument and visitor center.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Battery Park, Manhattan
subject linked to:
Battery Park, Manhattan
linked to: Castle Clinton
linked to: Castle Clinton