West Channel
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West Channel is a navigable waterway within Detroit Harbor, known for facilitating local marine traffic and access around Washington Island in Wisconsin.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| West Channel canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3790478 — 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: West Channel Context triple: [Detroit Harbor, hasPart, West Channel]
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A.
East Channel
East Channel is a waterway or sub-basin within Detroit Harbor, likely serving as one of its primary navigational or geographic divisions.
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B.
Buttermilk Channel
Buttermilk Channel is a tidal strait in New York City that separates Brooklyn from Governors Island and connects Upper New York Bay with the East River.
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C.
Great South Channel
The Great South Channel is a major submarine passage off the northeastern United States that separates Georges Bank from Cape Cod and serves as an important route for water exchange and marine life between the open Atlantic and the Gulf of Maine.
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D.
North Shore Channel
The North Shore Channel is a man-made drainage and navigation canal in the Chicago metropolitan area that diverts water from the North Shore suburbs into the Chicago River system.
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E.
Garrison Channel
Garrison Channel is a waterway in downtown Tampa, Florida, that separates the city’s central business district from Harbour Island and serves as a key part of the Tampa waterfront.
- 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: West Channel Target entity description: West Channel is a navigable waterway within Detroit Harbor, known for facilitating local marine traffic and access around Washington Island in Wisconsin.
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A.
East Channel
East Channel is a waterway or sub-basin within Detroit Harbor, likely serving as one of its primary navigational or geographic divisions.
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B.
Buttermilk Channel
Buttermilk Channel is a tidal strait in New York City that separates Brooklyn from Governors Island and connects Upper New York Bay with the East River.
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C.
Great South Channel
The Great South Channel is a major submarine passage off the northeastern United States that separates Georges Bank from Cape Cod and serves as an important route for water exchange and marine life between the open Atlantic and the Gulf of Maine.
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D.
North Shore Channel
The North Shore Channel is a man-made drainage and navigation canal in the Chicago metropolitan area that diverts water from the North Shore suburbs into the Chicago River system.
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E.
Garrison Channel
Garrison Channel is a waterway in downtown Tampa, Florida, that separates the city’s central business district from Harbour Island and serves as a key part of the Tampa waterfront.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
channel
ⓘ
navigable waterway ⓘ |
| connectedTo | Detroit Harbor ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| county | Door County ⓘ |
| environmentType | freshwater ⓘ |
| hasNameOrigin | its position on the western side of Detroit Harbor ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Detroit Harbor
ⓘ
Door County ⓘ United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
Washington Island ⓘ Wisconsin ⓘ |
| navigable | true ⓘ |
| near |
Door Peninsula
ⓘ
linked to:
Door Peninsula region
Green Bay (Lake Michigan) ⓘ
linked to:
Green Bay (the arm of Lake Michigan)
|
| partOf |
Detroit Harbor waterway system
ⓘ
linked to:
Detroit Harbor
Great Lakes region waterways ⓘ
linked to:
Great Lakes–St. Lawrence system
|
| serves | Washington Island maritime transportation ⓘ |
| state | Wisconsin ⓘ |
| supportsVesselType |
local commercial vessels
ⓘ
recreational boats ⓘ small craft ⓘ |
| usedFor |
access around Washington Island
ⓘ
boat navigation ⓘ local marine traffic ⓘ |
| waterbodyType | harbor 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: West Channel Description of subject: West Channel is a navigable waterway within Detroit Harbor, known for facilitating local marine traffic and access around Washington Island in Wisconsin.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.