Pier 1½
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Pier 1½ is a small historic waterfront pier along San Francisco’s Embarcadero, situated between Piers 1 and 3 and used for mixed commercial and maritime purposes.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Pier 1½ canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3871813 — 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: Pier 1½ Context triple: [Piers 1 through 5, hasPart, Pier 1½]
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A.
Pier 1
Pier 1 is a historic waterfront pier along San Francisco’s Embarcadero, now used for offices, dining, and public access to the bay.
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B.
Pier 1
Pier 1 is a waterfront recreational pier in Brooklyn Bridge Park offering green space, views of the Manhattan skyline, and public amenities along the East River.
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C.
Pier 5
Pier 5 is a recreational pier in Brooklyn Bridge Park known for its sports fields, waterfront views, and public gathering spaces along the Brooklyn waterfront.
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D.
Pier 51
Pier 51 is a recreational pier within Manhattan’s Hudson River Park, known for its playground, water features, and riverside views.
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E.
Furniture City
Furniture City is a nickname for Grand Rapids, Michigan, reflecting its historic prominence as a major center of American furniture manufacturing.
- 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: Pier 1½ Target entity description: Pier 1½ is a small historic waterfront pier along San Francisco’s Embarcadero, situated between Piers 1 and 3 and used for mixed commercial and maritime purposes.
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A.
Pier 1
Pier 1 is a historic waterfront pier along San Francisco’s Embarcadero, now used for offices, dining, and public access to the bay.
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B.
Pier 1
Pier 1 is a waterfront recreational pier in Brooklyn Bridge Park offering green space, views of the Manhattan skyline, and public amenities along the East River.
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C.
Pier 5
Pier 5 is a recreational pier in Brooklyn Bridge Park known for its sports fields, waterfront views, and public gathering spaces along the Brooklyn waterfront.
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D.
Pier 51
Pier 51 is a recreational pier within Manhattan’s Hudson River Park, known for its playground, water features, and riverside views.
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E.
Furniture City
Furniture City is a nickname for Grand Rapids, Michigan, reflecting its historic prominence as a major center of American furniture manufacturing.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
building
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historic pier ⓘ tourist attraction ⓘ waterfront structure ⓘ |
| adjacentTo |
San Francisco Ferry Building area
ⓘ
linked to:
San Francisco Embarcadero waterfront
|
| category |
Buildings and structures on the Embarcadero in San Francisco
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Piers in San Francisco ⓘ Waterfront commercial properties in California ⓘ |
| country |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| hasAccessFrom | The Embarcadero ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | historic waterfront pier ⓘ |
| locatedBetween |
Pier 1
ⓘ
Pier 3 ⓘ |
| location |
Embarcadero
ⓘ
San Francisco ⓘ San Francisco Bay waterfront ⓘ |
| partOf |
Port of San Francisco
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San Francisco Embarcadero historic waterfront ⓘ |
| state |
California
ⓘ
linked to:
California, United States
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| use |
commercial
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maritime ⓘ office space ⓘ restaurant space ⓘ |
| waterBody | San Francisco Bay ⓘ |
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: Pier 1½ Description of subject: Pier 1½ is a small historic waterfront pier along San Francisco’s Embarcadero, situated between Piers 1 and 3 and used for mixed commercial and maritime purposes.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.