Multnomah County Library
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Multnomah County Library is a large public library system serving residents of Multnomah County, Oregon, including the city of Portland and surrounding communities.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Central Library (Portland, Oregon) | 3 |
| Multnomah County Library canonical | 2 |
| Multnomah County Central Library | 1 |
| Multnomah County Library system | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T881484 — 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: Multnomah County Library Context triple: [Fairview, Oregon, hasLibrarySystem, Multnomah County Library]
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A.
Seattle Central Library
Seattle Central Library is a striking glass-and-steel public library building in downtown Seattle, renowned for its innovative architecture by Rem Koolhaas and its role as the flagship branch of the Seattle Public Library system.
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B.
Corvallis-Benton County Public Library
The Corvallis-Benton County Public Library is the main public library system serving residents of Corvallis and the surrounding communities in Benton County, Oregon.
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C.
Mercer Island Library
Mercer Island Library is a public library serving the community of Mercer Island in Washington State as part of the King County Library System.
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D.
Powell’s City of Books
Powell’s City of Books is a famed independent bookstore in Portland, Oregon, renowned as one of the world’s largest new and used bookstores, occupying an entire city block.
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E.
Chinn Park Regional Library
Chinn Park Regional Library is a major public library serving the Woodbridge, Virginia community with extensive collections, programs, and community services.
- 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: Multnomah County Library Target entity description: Multnomah County Library is a large public library system serving residents of Multnomah County, Oregon, including the city of Portland and surrounding communities.
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A.
Seattle Central Library
Seattle Central Library is a striking glass-and-steel public library building in downtown Seattle, renowned for its innovative architecture by Rem Koolhaas and its role as the flagship branch of the Seattle Public Library system.
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B.
Corvallis-Benton County Public Library
The Corvallis-Benton County Public Library is the main public library system serving residents of Corvallis and the surrounding communities in Benton County, Oregon.
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C.
Mercer Island Library
Mercer Island Library is a public library serving the community of Mercer Island in Washington State as part of the King County Library System.
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D.
Powell’s City of Books
Powell’s City of Books is a famed independent bookstore in Portland, Oregon, renowned as one of the world’s largest new and used bookstores, occupying an entire city block.
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E.
Chinn Park Regional Library
Chinn Park Regional Library is a major public library serving the Woodbridge, Virginia community with extensive collections, programs, and community services.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
library system
ⓘ
public library system ⓘ |
| collectionType |
audio-visual materials
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books ⓘ digital resources ⓘ local history materials ⓘ periodicals ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| fundedBy |
Multnomah County
ⓘ
surface form:
Multnomah County government
|
| genre | public library ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Multnomah County Library
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Central Library (Portland, Oregon)
branch libraries ⓘ branches in Gresham, Oregon ⓘ branches in other Multnomah County communities ⓘ neighborhood branches in Portland ⓘ |
| hasService |
adult education programs
ⓘ
audiobook lending ⓘ children's programs ⓘ community events ⓘ digital collections access ⓘ e-book lending ⓘ interlibrary loan ⓘ lending of books ⓘ lending of media ⓘ library cards for residents of Multnomah County ⓘ public internet access ⓘ reference services ⓘ research assistance ⓘ teen programs ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
Portland
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surface form:
Portland, Oregon
|
| industry | public libraries ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Multnomah County
ⓘ
surface form:
Multnomah County, Oregon
|
| locatedInTimeZone | Pacific Time Zone ⓘ |
| mainBuilding |
Multnomah County Library
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Central Library (Portland, Oregon)
|
| operates |
Multnomah County Library
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Central Library (Portland, Oregon)
|
| operator | Multnomah County ⓘ |
| ownedBy | Multnomah County ⓘ |
| publicAccess | yes ⓘ |
| serves |
Portland, Oregon, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
city of Portland, Oregon
residents of Multnomah County, Oregon ⓘ surrounding communities in Multnomah County ⓘ |
| serviceArea |
Multnomah County
ⓘ
surface form:
Multnomah County, Oregon
|
| serviceProvidedFor |
children
ⓘ
general public ⓘ researchers ⓘ students ⓘ |
| state | Oregon ⓘ |
| typeOfOrganization | county government department ⓘ |
| website | https://multcolib.org/ ⓘ |
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: Multnomah County Library Description of subject: Multnomah County Library is a large public library system serving residents of Multnomah County, Oregon, including the city of Portland and surrounding communities.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Central Library (Portland, Oregon)
this entity surface form:
Central Library (Portland, Oregon)
this entity surface form:
Central Library (Portland, Oregon)
this entity surface form:
Multnomah County Central Library
this entity surface form:
Multnomah County Library system