Bodie Island Lighthouse
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Bodie Island Lighthouse is a historic black-and-white banded coastal beacon on North Carolina’s Outer Banks, renowned for guiding ships along the treacherous waters of the Atlantic.
All labels observed (1)
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| Bodie Island Lighthouse canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5416357 — 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: Bodie Island Lighthouse Context triple: [Cape Hatteras National Seashore, contains, Bodie Island Lighthouse]
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Cape Hatteras Lighthouse
Cape Hatteras Lighthouse is a historic black-and-white spiral-striped beacon on North Carolina’s Outer Banks, renowned as one of the tallest and most iconic brick lighthouses in the United States.
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Amelia Island Lighthouse
Amelia Island Lighthouse is a historic 19th-century lighthouse on Florida’s Amelia Island and one of the state’s oldest still-operating beacons.
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Morris Island Lighthouse
Morris Island Lighthouse is a historic, now offshore brick lighthouse off Morris Island near Charleston, South Carolina, known for its Civil War–era origins and ongoing preservation efforts against coastal erosion.
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Cape Henry Lighthouse
Cape Henry Lighthouse is a historic coastal beacon at the entrance to the Chesapeake Bay, notable as one of the earliest federally funded public works in the United States.
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Ponce de Leon Inlet Lighthouse
The Ponce de Leon Inlet Lighthouse is a historic 19th-century brick lighthouse near Daytona Beach, Florida, renowned as one of the tallest and best-preserved lighthouses in the United States.
- 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: Bodie Island Lighthouse Target entity description: Bodie Island Lighthouse is a historic black-and-white banded coastal beacon on North Carolina’s Outer Banks, renowned for guiding ships along the treacherous waters of the Atlantic.
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A.
Cape Hatteras Lighthouse
Cape Hatteras Lighthouse is a historic black-and-white spiral-striped beacon on North Carolina’s Outer Banks, renowned as one of the tallest and most iconic brick lighthouses in the United States.
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B.
Amelia Island Lighthouse
Amelia Island Lighthouse is a historic 19th-century lighthouse on Florida’s Amelia Island and one of the state’s oldest still-operating beacons.
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C.
Morris Island Lighthouse
Morris Island Lighthouse is a historic, now offshore brick lighthouse off Morris Island near Charleston, South Carolina, known for its Civil War–era origins and ongoing preservation efforts against coastal erosion.
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D.
Cape Henry Lighthouse
Cape Henry Lighthouse is a historic coastal beacon at the entrance to the Chesapeake Bay, notable as one of the earliest federally funded public works in the United States.
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E.
Ponce de Leon Inlet Lighthouse
The Ponce de Leon Inlet Lighthouse is a historic 19th-century brick lighthouse near Daytona Beach, Florida, renowned as one of the tallest and best-preserved lighthouses in the United States.
- 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: Bodie Island Lighthouse Description of subject: Bodie Island Lighthouse is a historic black-and-white banded coastal beacon on North Carolina’s Outer Banks, renowned for guiding ships along the treacherous waters of the Atlantic.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.