Blair Waterway
E239823
Blair Waterway is a major industrial shipping channel and deep-water port facility in Tacoma, Washington, used primarily for maritime commerce and cargo operations.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Blair Waterway canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2115510 — 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: Blair Waterway Context triple: [Commencement Bay, receivesInflowsFrom, Blair Waterway]
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A.
Murray Canal
The Murray Canal is a man-made waterway in Ontario, Canada, that provides a navigable shortcut between the Bay of Quinte and Lake Ontario as part of the Trent–Severn Waterway.
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B.
Union Canal
The Union Canal is a historic Scottish waterway that links Edinburgh to the Forth & Clyde Canal near Falkirk, once vital for transporting coal and other goods and now used mainly for leisure boating and recreation.
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C.
Albert Canal
The Albert Canal is a major Belgian waterway linking the Meuse River to the port of Antwerp, serving as an important route for inland shipping and freight transport.
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D.
Ashton Canal
The Ashton Canal is a historic narrow canal in Greater Manchester, England, that links central Manchester to the Peak Forest Canal and forms part of the region’s Pennine waterway network.
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E.
Peak Forest Canal
The Peak Forest Canal is a historic narrow canal in northwest England that was built to transport limestone from Derbyshire and now serves as a scenic route for leisure boating and walking.
- 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: Blair Waterway Target entity description: Blair Waterway is a major industrial shipping channel and deep-water port facility in Tacoma, Washington, used primarily for maritime commerce and cargo operations.
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A.
Murray Canal
The Murray Canal is a man-made waterway in Ontario, Canada, that provides a navigable shortcut between the Bay of Quinte and Lake Ontario as part of the Trent–Severn Waterway.
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B.
Union Canal
The Union Canal is a historic Scottish waterway that links Edinburgh to the Forth & Clyde Canal near Falkirk, once vital for transporting coal and other goods and now used mainly for leisure boating and recreation.
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C.
Albert Canal
The Albert Canal is a major Belgian waterway linking the Meuse River to the port of Antwerp, serving as an important route for inland shipping and freight transport.
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D.
Ashton Canal
The Ashton Canal is a historic narrow canal in Greater Manchester, England, that links central Manchester to the Peak Forest Canal and forms part of the region’s Pennine waterway network.
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E.
Peak Forest Canal
The Peak Forest Canal is a historic narrow canal in northwest England that was built to transport limestone from Derbyshire and now serves as a scenic route for leisure boating and walking.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
deep-water port facility
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industrial waterway ⓘ shipping channel ⓘ |
| adjacentTo |
Commencement Bay
ⓘ
industrial port facilities in Tacoma ⓘ |
| city |
Tacoma
ⓘ
linked to:
Tacoma, Washington
|
| connectedTo | Puget Sound ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| economicRole |
supports industrial development in Tacoma
ⓘ
supports regional trade ⓘ |
| environmentContext | urban industrial waterfront ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
deep-draft navigation channel
ⓘ
industrial shoreline ⓘ marine terminal access ⓘ |
| hasInfrastructure |
dock facilities
ⓘ
marine cargo terminals ⓘ piers ⓘ wharves ⓘ |
| hasRegulation |
subject to U.S. maritime regulations
ⓘ
subject to port authority rules ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Pierce County, Washington
ⓘ
linked to:
Pierce County
Tacoma, Washington ⓘ United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| navigableFor |
cargo ships
ⓘ
container vessels ⓘ ocean-going vessels ⓘ |
| operatedBy | Port of Tacoma ⓘ |
| ownedBy | Port of Tacoma ⓘ |
| partOf |
Port of Tacoma
ⓘ
Tacoma harbor ⓘ
linked to:
Commencement Bay
|
| primaryUse |
cargo handling
ⓘ
commercial shipping ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Port of Tacoma marine terminals
ⓘ
linked to:
Port of Tacoma
Tacoma industrial waterfront ⓘ
linked to:
Tacoma Tideflats industrial area
|
| safetyConcern |
industrial port operations
ⓘ
marine traffic management ⓘ |
| state | Washington ⓘ |
| supportsActivity |
loading and unloading of ships
ⓘ
port logistics ⓘ vessel berthing ⓘ |
| usedFor |
cargo operations
ⓘ
container shipping ⓘ industrial shipping ⓘ maritime commerce ⓘ |
| waterwayType |
harbor waterway
ⓘ
man-made channel ⓘ |
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: Blair Waterway Description of subject: Blair Waterway is a major industrial shipping channel and deep-water port facility in Tacoma, Washington, used primarily for maritime commerce and cargo operations.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.