Sugar Island Ferry
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Sugar Island Ferry is a car and passenger ferry service that connects Sugar Island to the mainland in Michigan across the St. Marys River.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sugar Island Ferry canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11914222 — 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: Sugar Island Ferry Context triple: [Sugar Island, Michigan, transportation, Sugar Island Ferry]
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A.
Cook’s Ferry
Cook’s Ferry is the former name of the small community now known as Spences Bridge in British Columbia, Canada, historically associated with a ferry crossing on the Thompson River.
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B.
Menor’s Ferry
Menor’s Ferry is a historic river crossing and ferry site on the Snake River in Grand Teton National Park, significant for its role in early transportation and settlement in the Jackson Hole area.
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C.
Madeline Island Ferry
Madeline Island Ferry is a passenger and vehicle ferry service that connects Madeline Island to the mainland across Lake Superior in northern Wisconsin.
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D.
St. Johns River Ferry
The St. Johns River Ferry is a public car and passenger ferry service that carries vehicles and riders across the St. Johns River in the Jacksonville, Florida area.
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E.
Guemes Island Ferry
The Guemes Island Ferry is a small passenger and vehicle ferry service that connects Guemes Island with the city of Anacortes in Washington State.
- 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: Sugar Island Ferry Target entity description: Sugar Island Ferry is a car and passenger ferry service that connects Sugar Island to the mainland in Michigan across the St. Marys River.
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A.
Cook’s Ferry
Cook’s Ferry is the former name of the small community now known as Spences Bridge in British Columbia, Canada, historically associated with a ferry crossing on the Thompson River.
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B.
Menor’s Ferry
Menor’s Ferry is a historic river crossing and ferry site on the Snake River in Grand Teton National Park, significant for its role in early transportation and settlement in the Jackson Hole area.
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C.
Madeline Island Ferry
Madeline Island Ferry is a passenger and vehicle ferry service that connects Madeline Island to the mainland across Lake Superior in northern Wisconsin.
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D.
St. Johns River Ferry
The St. Johns River Ferry is a public car and passenger ferry service that carries vehicles and riders across the St. Johns River in the Jacksonville, Florida area.
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E.
Guemes Island Ferry
The Guemes Island Ferry is a small passenger and vehicle ferry service that connects Guemes Island with the city of Anacortes in Washington State.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
car and passenger ferry
ⓘ
ferry service ⓘ transportation service ⓘ |
| accesses |
Sugar Island road network
ⓘ
mainland road network near Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan ⓘ |
| connects |
Sugar Island
ⓘ
mainland Michigan ⓘ |
| connectsTo |
ferry docks on Sugar Island
ⓘ
ferry docks on the Michigan mainland ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| crosses | St. Marys River ⓘ |
| infrastructureType | public transport link ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Michigan
ⓘ
United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| operatesOn | freshwater route ⓘ |
| primaryMode |
automobile transport
ⓘ
walk-on passenger transport ⓘ |
| provides | regular ferry crossings ⓘ |
| region | Upper Peninsula of Michigan ⓘ |
| role |
critical transportation link
ⓘ
island access infrastructure ⓘ |
| serves |
Sugar Island residents
ⓘ
visitors to Sugar Island ⓘ |
| state |
Michigan
ⓘ
linked to:
Michigan (most of state)
|
| transportType |
passenger ferry
ⓘ
vehicle ferry ⓘ |
| usedFor |
commuter travel
ⓘ
emergency access to Sugar Island ⓘ goods transport to Sugar Island ⓘ |
| waterway | St. Marys River ⓘ |
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: Sugar Island Ferry Description of subject: Sugar Island Ferry is a car and passenger ferry service that connects Sugar Island to the mainland in Michigan across the St. Marys River.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.