Interislander ferry
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The Interislander ferry is a major passenger and vehicle ferry service in New Zealand that connects the North and South Islands across Cook Strait.
All labels observed (8)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Interislander ferry canonical | 3 |
| Bluebridge ferries | 1 |
| Bluebridge ferry | 1 |
| Interislander | 1 |
| Interislander ferries | 1 |
| Interislander route | 1 |
| The Interislander | 1 |
| Wellington–Picton ferry route | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4057457 — 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: Interislander ferry Context triple: [Cook Strait, hasFerryService, Interislander ferry]
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A.
Spirit of Tasmania ferry
The Spirit of Tasmania ferry is a passenger and vehicle ferry service that operates across Bass Strait, connecting mainland Australia with the island state of Tasmania.
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Sydney Ferries
Sydney Ferries is the public ferry operator providing commuter and tourist ferry services across Sydney Harbour and the surrounding waterways in the Greater Sydney region.
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C.
Portsmouth–Ryde ferry
The Portsmouth–Ryde ferry is a passenger and vehicle ferry service linking the English south-coast city of Portsmouth with the town of Ryde on the Isle of Wight.
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Star Ferry
Star Ferry is a historic passenger ferry service in Hong Kong best known for carrying commuters and tourists across Victoria Harbour between Hong Kong Island and Kowloon.
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E.
Lake Express high-speed ferry
The Lake Express high-speed ferry is a passenger and vehicle ferry that provides rapid cross-Lake Michigan service between Muskegon, Michigan, and Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
- 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: Interislander ferry Target entity description: The Interislander ferry is a major passenger and vehicle ferry service in New Zealand that connects the North and South Islands across Cook Strait.
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A.
Spirit of Tasmania ferry
The Spirit of Tasmania ferry is a passenger and vehicle ferry service that operates across Bass Strait, connecting mainland Australia with the island state of Tasmania.
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B.
Sydney Ferries
Sydney Ferries is the public ferry operator providing commuter and tourist ferry services across Sydney Harbour and the surrounding waterways in the Greater Sydney region.
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C.
Portsmouth–Ryde ferry
The Portsmouth–Ryde ferry is a passenger and vehicle ferry service linking the English south-coast city of Portsmouth with the town of Ryde on the Isle of Wight.
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D.
Star Ferry
Star Ferry is a historic passenger ferry service in Hong Kong best known for carrying commuters and tourists across Victoria Harbour between Hong Kong Island and Kowloon.
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E.
Lake Express high-speed ferry
The Lake Express high-speed ferry is a passenger and vehicle ferry that provides rapid cross-Lake Michigan service between Muskegon, Michigan, and Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Interislander ferry Description of subject: The Interislander ferry is a major passenger and vehicle ferry service in New Zealand that connects the North and South Islands across Cook Strait.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Interislander ferry
linked to: Interislander ferry
linked to: Interislander ferry
subject linked to:
Cook Strait region (southern North Island and northern South Island)
linked to: Interislander ferry
subject linked to:
Cook Strait region (southern North Island and northern South Island)
linked to: Interislander ferry
subject linked to:
Interislander ferry
linked to: Interislander ferry
linked to: Interislander ferry