Steilacoom
E291717
Steilacoom is a small historic town in western Washington State overlooking Puget Sound, known as the first incorporated town in the state.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Steilacoom, Washington | 4 |
| Steilacoom canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2499902 — 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: Steilacoom Context triple: [Pierce County, contains, Steilacoom]
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A.
Puyallup
Puyallup is a city in Washington State known for its annual Washington State Fair and its location in the Puyallup River Valley southeast of Tacoma.
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B.
Sammamish
Sammamish is a suburban city in Washington State known for its affluent residential communities, highly rated schools, and proximity to the Seattle metropolitan area.
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C.
Poulsbo
Poulsbo is a small waterfront city in Washington State known for its Scandinavian heritage and charming downtown on Liberty Bay.
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D.
Clover Park
Clover Park is a baseball stadium in Port St. Lucie, Florida, best known as the long-time spring training home of the New York Mets.
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E.
Sequim, Washington
Sequim, Washington is a small city on the Olympic Peninsula known for its sunny "rain shadow" climate and annual lavender festival.
- 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: Steilacoom Target entity description: Steilacoom is a small historic town in western Washington State overlooking Puget Sound, known as the first incorporated town in the state.
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A.
Puyallup
Puyallup is a city in Washington State known for its annual Washington State Fair and its location in the Puyallup River Valley southeast of Tacoma.
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B.
Sammamish
Sammamish is a suburban city in Washington State known for its affluent residential communities, highly rated schools, and proximity to the Seattle metropolitan area.
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C.
Poulsbo
Poulsbo is a small waterfront city in Washington State known for its Scandinavian heritage and charming downtown on Liberty Bay.
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D.
Clover Park
Clover Park is a baseball stadium in Port St. Lucie, Florida, best known as the long-time spring training home of the New York Mets.
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E.
Sequim, Washington
Sequim, Washington is a small city on the Olympic Peninsula known for its sunny "rain shadow" climate and annual lavender festival.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
municipality
ⓘ
town ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| governmentType | municipal government ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
historic town
ⓘ
small town ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
historic buildings
ⓘ
residential community ⓘ waterfront views ⓘ |
| hasHeritage | historic community ⓘ |
| hasWaterBody | Puget Sound ⓘ |
| incorporationStatus | incorporated town ⓘ |
| isKnownAs | first incorporated town in Washington State ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Pierce County
ⓘ
Washington State ⓘ
linked to:
Washington
western Washington ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Joint Base Lewis–McChord
ⓘ
linked to:
Joint Base Lewis–McChord, Washington
Tacoma ⓘ
linked to:
Tacoma, Washington
|
| locatedOn | Puget Sound ⓘ |
| overlooks | Puget Sound ⓘ |
| partOf | Pacific Northwest ⓘ |
| state | Washington ⓘ |
| timeZone | Pacific Time Zone ⓘ |
| transportation | served by local roads ⓘ |
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: Steilacoom Description of subject: Steilacoom is a small historic town in western Washington State overlooking Puget Sound, known as the first incorporated town in the state.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Steilacoom
linked to: Steilacoom
linked to: Steilacoom
linked to: Steilacoom