Corning, New York
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Corning, New York is a small city in Steuben County best known as the home of Corning Incorporated and the Corning Museum of Glass.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Corning, New York canonical | 15 |
| Corning, New York, United States | 2 |
| City of Corning, New York | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T272757 — 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: Corning, New York Context triple: [Southern Tier region (overlap), includesCommunity, Corning, New York]
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Schenectady, New York
Schenectady, New York is a historic city in eastern New York State known for its role in early American industry and as a former hub of General Electric and the American locomotive industry.
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B.
Endicott, New York
Endicott, New York is a village in Broome County historically known as the birthplace of IBM and a key early center of the American electronics and technology industry.
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C.
Ossining, New York
Ossining, New York is a historic Hudson River village and town in Westchester County known for its riverfront, diverse community, and the Sing Sing Correctional Facility.
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D.
Harrison, New York
Harrison, New York is a suburban town in southeastern New York State known for its residential neighborhoods, corporate offices, and proximity to New York City.
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E.
Cortlandt, New York
Cortlandt, New York is a suburban town in northern Westchester County along the Hudson River, known for its residential communities, parks, and proximity to New York City.
- 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: Corning, New York Target entity description: Corning, New York is a small city in Steuben County best known as the home of Corning Incorporated and the Corning Museum of Glass.
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A.
Schenectady, New York
Schenectady, New York is a historic city in eastern New York State known for its role in early American industry and as a former hub of General Electric and the American locomotive industry.
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B.
Endicott, New York
Endicott, New York is a village in Broome County historically known as the birthplace of IBM and a key early center of the American electronics and technology industry.
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C.
Ossining, New York
Ossining, New York is a historic Hudson River village and town in Westchester County known for its riverfront, diverse community, and the Sing Sing Correctional Facility.
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D.
Harrison, New York
Harrison, New York is a suburban town in southeastern New York State known for its residential neighborhoods, corporate offices, and proximity to New York City.
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Cortlandt, New York
Cortlandt, New York is a suburban town in northern Westchester County along the Hudson River, known for its residential communities, parks, and proximity to New York City.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
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: Corning, New York Description of subject: Corning, New York is a small city in Steuben County best known as the home of Corning Incorporated and the Corning Museum of Glass.
Referenced by (18)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Corning, New York, United States
this entity surface form:
Corning, New York, United States
this entity surface form:
City of Corning, New York
subject surface form:
Wallace Harrison