Ithaca, New York, United States
E1105
Ithaca, New York, United States is a small city in the Finger Lakes region best known as the home of Cornell University and a historic center of academic and scientific research.
All labels observed (14)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4757 — 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: Ithaca, New York, United States Context triple: [Carl Sagan, workLocation, Ithaca, New York, United States]
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Belmont, Massachusetts, United States
Belmont, Massachusetts, United States, is a suburban town just west of Boston known for its affluent residential character and strong public schools.
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Cambridge, Massachusetts
Cambridge, Massachusetts is a historic and academically renowned city just outside Boston, best known for being home to world-leading universities and research institutions.
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Hyde Park, New York, United States
Hyde Park, New York, United States is a Hudson River town best known as the lifelong home of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and site of his presidential library and estate.
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Everett, Massachusetts, United States
Everett, Massachusetts, United States, is a small industrial city just north of Boston known historically for its manufacturing base and as the birthplace of influential engineer and science administrator Vannevar Bush.
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Douglas
Douglas is a masculine given name of Scottish origin that has been widely used in English-speaking countries.
- 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: Ithaca, New York, United States Target entity description: Ithaca, New York, United States is a small city in the Finger Lakes region best known as the home of Cornell University and a historic center of academic and scientific research.
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Belmont, Massachusetts, United States
Belmont, Massachusetts, United States, is a suburban town just west of Boston known for its affluent residential character and strong public schools.
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Cambridge, Massachusetts
Cambridge, Massachusetts is a historic and academically renowned city just outside Boston, best known for being home to world-leading universities and research institutions.
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C.
Hyde Park, New York, United States
Hyde Park, New York, United States is a Hudson River town best known as the lifelong home of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and site of his presidential library and estate.
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D.
Everett, Massachusetts, United States
Everett, Massachusetts, United States, is a small industrial city just north of Boston known historically for its manufacturing base and as the birthplace of influential engineer and science administrator Vannevar Bush.
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Douglas
Douglas is a masculine given name of Scottish origin that has been widely used in English-speaking countries.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
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: Ithaca, New York, United States Description of subject: Ithaca, New York, United States is a small city in the Finger Lakes region best known as the home of Cornell University and a historic center of academic and scientific research.
Referenced by (353)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Ithaca, New York
subject surface form:
Newman Arena
this entity surface form:
Ithaca, New York
subject surface form:
Cornell University
this entity surface form:
Ithaca, New York