Cherry Point Refinery
E1000189
Cherry Point Refinery is a major oil refinery in Washington State and one of the largest petroleum processing facilities in the Pacific Northwest.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cherry Point Refinery canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12733565 — 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: Cherry Point Refinery Context triple: [Ferndale, Washington, hasNearbyFacility, Cherry Point Refinery]
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A.
Rand Refinery
Rand Refinery is one of the world’s largest gold refineries and smelting complexes, playing a central role in processing and distributing South African gold.
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B.
Bayway Refinery
Bayway Refinery is a major petroleum refining complex on the East Coast of the United States, known for processing crude oil into gasoline and other fuels.
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C.
Motiva Port Arthur Refinery
Motiva Port Arthur Refinery is a major oil refining complex in Port Arthur, Texas, known as one of the largest and most advanced refineries in the United States.
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D.
Wood River Refinery
Wood River Refinery is a major oil refinery complex in the St. Louis metropolitan area, known for processing crude oil into gasoline and other petroleum products.
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E.
Jordan Petroleum Refinery
Jordan Petroleum Refinery is the main oil refining facility in Jordan, located in Zarqa and responsible for processing and supplying much of the country’s petroleum products.
- 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: Cherry Point Refinery Target entity description: Cherry Point Refinery is a major oil refinery in Washington State and one of the largest petroleum processing facilities in the Pacific Northwest.
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A.
Rand Refinery
Rand Refinery is one of the world’s largest gold refineries and smelting complexes, playing a central role in processing and distributing South African gold.
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B.
Bayway Refinery
Bayway Refinery is a major petroleum refining complex on the East Coast of the United States, known for processing crude oil into gasoline and other fuels.
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C.
Motiva Port Arthur Refinery
Motiva Port Arthur Refinery is a major oil refining complex in Port Arthur, Texas, known as one of the largest and most advanced refineries in the United States.
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D.
Wood River Refinery
Wood River Refinery is a major oil refinery complex in the St. Louis metropolitan area, known for processing crude oil into gasoline and other petroleum products.
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E.
Jordan Petroleum Refinery
Jordan Petroleum Refinery is the main oil refining facility in Jordan, located in Zarqa and responsible for processing and supplying much of the country’s petroleum products.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
industrial facility
ⓘ
oil refinery ⓘ |
| adjacentTo | Cherry Point Aquatic Reserve NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| connectedTo | Trans Mountain Pipeline system NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| constructionStarted | late 1960s ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| employs | hundreds of workers ⓘ |
| formerlyOwnedBy |
ARCO
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
BP NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasEnvironmentalConcern |
air emissions
ⓘ
oil spill risk ⓘ water pollution risk ⓘ |
| hasFacility |
coker unit
ⓘ
crude distillation unit ⓘ hydrocracker ⓘ marine terminal ⓘ sulfur recovery unit ⓘ |
| hasPrimaryProduct |
asphalt
ⓘ
diesel fuel ⓘ fuel oil ⓘ gasoline ⓘ jet fuel ⓘ liquefied petroleum gas ⓘ petroleum coke ⓘ |
| hasTransportationMode |
marine tanker
ⓘ
pipeline ⓘ rail ⓘ truck ⓘ |
| isMajorRefineryIn |
Pacific Northwest
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Washington State NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Pacific Northwest
ⓘ
Washington ⓘ
surface form:
Washington State
Whatcom County, Washington NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Ferndale, Washington NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nearBodyOfWater |
Salish Sea
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Strait of Georgia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| operatedBy | HF Sinclair Corporation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ownedBy | HF Sinclair Corporation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOfIndustry | petroleum refining industry ⓘ |
| regulator |
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Washington State Department of Ecology NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| servesMarket |
British Columbia
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Oregon NERFINISHED ⓘ Pacific Northwest NERFINISHED ⓘ Washington State NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| startOfOperation | 1971 ⓘ |
| usesFeedstock | crude oil ⓘ |
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: Cherry Point Refinery Description of subject: Cherry Point Refinery is a major oil refinery in Washington State and one of the largest petroleum processing facilities in the Pacific Northwest.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Ferndale, Washington