Ferry Building
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The Ferry Building is a historic San Francisco waterfront terminal and landmark known for its iconic clock tower and bustling marketplace of shops and eateries.
All labels observed (10)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T775961 — 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: Ferry Building Context triple: [Port of San Francisco, hasPart, Ferry Building]
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Pier 39
Pier 39 is a popular waterfront shopping, dining, and entertainment complex in San Francisco best known for its sea lions, bay views, and tourist attractions.
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Pier 33
Pier 33 is a waterfront terminal in San Francisco that serves as the primary departure point for ferry trips to Alcatraz Island.
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Civic Center, San Francisco
Civic Center, San Francisco is a historic governmental and cultural district in the heart of the city, known for its grand Beaux-Arts architecture, major civic institutions, and prominent public plazas.
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Fisherman’s Wharf
Fisherman’s Wharf is a popular waterfront neighborhood and tourist destination in San Francisco known for its seafood restaurants, historic piers, and views of the bay and Alcatraz Island.
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Fisherman’s Wharf
Fisherman’s Wharf is a popular waterfront attraction in Victoria, British Columbia, known for its colorful floating homes, seafood eateries, and marine wildlife viewing.
- 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: Ferry Building Target entity description: The Ferry Building is a historic San Francisco waterfront terminal and landmark known for its iconic clock tower and bustling marketplace of shops and eateries.
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A.
Pier 39
Pier 39 is a popular waterfront shopping, dining, and entertainment complex in San Francisco best known for its sea lions, bay views, and tourist attractions.
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B.
Pier 33
Pier 33 is a waterfront terminal in San Francisco that serves as the primary departure point for ferry trips to Alcatraz Island.
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Civic Center, San Francisco
Civic Center, San Francisco is a historic governmental and cultural district in the heart of the city, known for its grand Beaux-Arts architecture, major civic institutions, and prominent public plazas.
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D.
Fisherman’s Wharf
Fisherman’s Wharf is a popular waterfront neighborhood and tourist destination in San Francisco known for its seafood restaurants, historic piers, and views of the bay and Alcatraz Island.
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E.
Fisherman’s Wharf
Fisherman’s Wharf is a popular waterfront attraction in Victoria, British Columbia, known for its colorful floating homes, seafood eateries, and marine wildlife viewing.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Ferry Building Description of subject: The Ferry Building is a historic San Francisco waterfront terminal and landmark known for its iconic clock tower and bustling marketplace of shops and eateries.
Referenced by (65)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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San Francisco, California, United States of America
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Market Street
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