Pier 48
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Pier 48 is a historic waterfront pier in San Francisco’s Mission Bay area, known for its industrial maritime architecture and redevelopment plans as part of the city’s evolving shoreline.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Pier 48 canonical | 1 |
| Pier 48 (Seattle) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3930265 — 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 48 Context triple: [Piers 48–50, hasPart, Pier 48]
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A.
Pier 45
Pier 45 is a popular recreational pier in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village, known for its lawns, waterfront views, and role as a gathering spot along the Hudson River.
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B.
Pier 84
Pier 84 is a popular recreational pier along Manhattan’s Hudson River waterfront, featuring green space, seating, and riverfront views within Hudson River Park.
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C.
Pier 84
Pier 84 is a waterfront facility within the Port of Philadelphia used for maritime and cargo-related operations.
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D.
Pier 46
Pier 46 is a recreational pier along Manhattan’s Hudson River waterfront, featuring open green space, seating, and river views as part of the larger Hudson River Park.
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E.
Pier 4
Pier 4 is a waterfront pier and recreational area within Brooklyn Bridge Park in Brooklyn, New York City.
- 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 48 Target entity description: Pier 48 is a historic waterfront pier in San Francisco’s Mission Bay area, known for its industrial maritime architecture and redevelopment plans as part of the city’s evolving shoreline.
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A.
Pier 45
Pier 45 is a popular recreational pier in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village, known for its lawns, waterfront views, and role as a gathering spot along the Hudson River.
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B.
Pier 84
Pier 84 is a popular recreational pier along Manhattan’s Hudson River waterfront, featuring green space, seating, and riverfront views within Hudson River Park.
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C.
Pier 84
Pier 84 is a waterfront facility within the Port of Philadelphia used for maritime and cargo-related operations.
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D.
Pier 46
Pier 46 is a recreational pier along Manhattan’s Hudson River waterfront, featuring open green space, seating, and river views as part of the larger Hudson River Park.
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E.
Pier 4
Pier 4 is a waterfront pier and recreational area within Brooklyn Bridge Park in Brooklyn, New York City.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
historic pier
ⓘ
industrial building ⓘ waterfront structure ⓘ |
| adjacentTo |
China Basin
ⓘ
Mission Rock development area ⓘ Oracle Park ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | industrial maritime architecture ⓘ |
| category |
Buildings and structures in San Francisco
ⓘ
Piers in San Francisco Bay ⓘ Waterfront redevelopment sites in California ⓘ |
| hasCondition | historic structure requiring rehabilitation ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
cargo handling (historical)
ⓘ
supporting maritime trade (historical) ⓘ |
| hasHeritageStatus | considered a historic waterfront resource ⓘ |
| hasRedevelopmentGoal |
adaptive reuse of historic industrial fabric
ⓘ
integration into mixed‑use waterfront district ⓘ |
| hasUse |
event venue (historical and proposed)
ⓘ
maritime industrial use ⓘ warehousing (historical) ⓘ |
| isPartOfPlanningArea | San Francisco shoreline revitalization ⓘ |
| isSubjectOf |
Mission Bay redevelopment projects
ⓘ
waterfront redevelopment plans ⓘ |
| locatedOn | San Francisco Bay ⓘ |
| location |
Mission Bay, San Francisco
ⓘ
linked to:
South of Market (SoMa)
San Francisco, California ⓘ
linked to:
San Francisco
United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| near |
Mission Creek Channel
ⓘ
linked to:
Mission Creek
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| ownedBy | Port of San Francisco ⓘ |
| partOf |
Port of San Francisco
ⓘ
San Francisco waterfront ⓘ
linked to:
San Francisco Embarcadero waterfront
|
| significance | example of early 20th‑century port infrastructure in San Francisco ⓘ |
| transportConnection | served by nearby surface streets and transit in Mission 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 48 Description of subject: Pier 48 is a historic waterfront pier in San Francisco’s Mission Bay area, known for its industrial maritime architecture and redevelopment plans as part of the city’s evolving shoreline.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Pier 48