M/V Aurora
E80196
M/V Aurora is a state-operated ferry vessel that serves coastal communities as part of Alaska’s Marine Highway System.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| M/V Aurora canonical | 4 |
| Aurora (ferry) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T620416 — 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: M/V Aurora Context triple: [Alaska Marine Highway System, hasPart, M/V Aurora]
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A.
M/V Kennicott
M/V Kennicott is a mainline Alaska Marine Highway System ferry that provides passenger, vehicle, and cargo service to coastal communities across Alaska.
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B.
M/V Matanuska
M/V Matanuska is a mainline roll-on/roll-off passenger and vehicle ferry serving coastal communities in Alaska as part of the state’s marine highway network.
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C.
M/V Columbia
M/V Columbia is a mainline passenger and vehicle ferry that serves as one of the flagship vessels of the Alaska Marine Highway System, operating along coastal routes in Alaska and the Pacific Northwest.
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D.
M/V Tustumena
M/V Tustumena is a rugged Alaska Marine Highway ferry known for serving remote coastal communities and challenging open-ocean routes in the Gulf of Alaska and Aleutian Islands.
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E.
M/V LeConte
M/V LeConte is an Alaska Marine Highway System ferry that provides passenger and vehicle service to coastal communities in Southeast Alaska.
- 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: M/V Aurora Target entity description: M/V Aurora is a state-operated ferry vessel that serves coastal communities as part of Alaska’s Marine Highway System.
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A.
M/V Kennicott
M/V Kennicott is a mainline Alaska Marine Highway System ferry that provides passenger, vehicle, and cargo service to coastal communities across Alaska.
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B.
M/V Matanuska
M/V Matanuska is a mainline roll-on/roll-off passenger and vehicle ferry serving coastal communities in Alaska as part of the state’s marine highway network.
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C.
M/V Columbia
M/V Columbia is a mainline passenger and vehicle ferry that serves as one of the flagship vessels of the Alaska Marine Highway System, operating along coastal routes in Alaska and the Pacific Northwest.
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D.
M/V Tustumena
M/V Tustumena is a rugged Alaska Marine Highway ferry known for serving remote coastal communities and challenging open-ocean routes in the Gulf of Alaska and Aleutian Islands.
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E.
M/V LeConte
M/V LeConte is an Alaska Marine Highway System ferry that provides passenger and vehicle service to coastal communities in Southeast Alaska.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ferry vessel
ⓘ
roll-on/roll-off passenger ferry ⓘ |
| beam | 52 ft ⓘ |
| builder |
Peterson Builders, Inc.
ⓘ
Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin ⓘ |
| buildYear | 1977 ⓘ |
| callsign | WNGX ⓘ |
| category |
Alaska Marine Highway System vessels
ⓘ
linked to:
Alaska Marine Highway System
Ferries of Alaska ⓘ Passenger ships of the United States ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| crewComplement | approximately 20 crew ⓘ |
| flag |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| grossTonnage | approximately 1,300 GT ⓘ |
| homeport | Cordova, Alaska ⓘ |
| hullMaterial | steel ⓘ |
| iceStrengthened | true ⓘ |
| IMONumber | 7510751 ⓘ |
| launchYear | 1977 ⓘ |
| lengthOverall |
235 ft
ⓘ
approximately 72 meters ⓘ |
| MMSINumber | 366760000 ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Aurora (Latin for dawn) ⓘ |
| navigationArea | inland and coastal waters of Alaska ⓘ |
| operator |
Alaska Marine Highway System
ⓘ
State of Alaska ⓘ
linked to:
Alaska
|
| owner | State of Alaska Department of Transportation & Public Facilities ⓘ |
| partOf | Alaska Marine Highway System fleet ⓘ |
| passengerCapacity | approximately 250 passengers ⓘ |
| portOfRegistry |
Juneau, Alaska
ⓘ
linked to:
Juneau
|
| primaryFunction | linking roadless coastal communities ⓘ |
| propulsion | diesel-powered ⓘ |
| route |
Cordova–Valdez
ⓘ
Cordova–Whittier ⓘ Prince William Sound routes ⓘ Valdez–Whittier ⓘ
linked to:
Valdez
|
| safetyRegime | U.S. Coast Guard inspected vessel ⓘ |
| service |
freight transport
ⓘ
passenger transport ⓘ vehicle transport ⓘ |
| serviceArea |
Prince William Sound region
ⓘ
linked to:
Prince William Sound
Southcentral Alaska ⓘ coastal communities of Alaska ⓘ |
| serviceStart | late 1970s ⓘ |
| status | state-operated vessel ⓘ |
| vehicleCapacity | approximately 30 vehicles ⓘ |
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: M/V Aurora Description of subject: M/V Aurora is a state-operated ferry vessel that serves coastal communities as part of Alaska’s Marine Highway System.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: M/V Aurora