Stony Brook
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Stony Brook is a hamlet on the North Shore of Long Island in New York, best known as the home of Stony Brook University and its associated research and medical institutions.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Stony Brook canonical | 15 |
| Stony Brook Harbor | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T798337 — 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: Stony Brook Context triple: [Long Island, contains, Stony Brook]
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A.
Stony Brook
Stony Brook is a small urban stream in Boston, Massachusetts, that runs through several neighborhoods and is largely culverted and integrated into the city’s Emerald Necklace park system.
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B.
Stony Brook
Stony Brook is a stream in New Jersey that flows through the Princeton Battlefield area and played a notable role in the terrain of the Revolutionary War battle fought there.
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C.
Oyster Bay
Oyster Bay is a coastal town on Long Island, New York, historically notable as the longtime home and final residence of U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt.
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D.
Manhasset Bay
Manhasset Bay is a sheltered inlet of Long Island Sound on the north shore of Long Island in New York, known for its marinas, boating, and waterfront communities.
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E.
Flushing Bay
Flushing Bay is a tidal embayment in northern Queens, New York City, forming part of the East River and lying adjacent to major landmarks such as LaGuardia Airport and Citi Field.
- 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: Stony Brook Target entity description: Stony Brook is a hamlet on the North Shore of Long Island in New York, best known as the home of Stony Brook University and its associated research and medical institutions.
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A.
Stony Brook
Stony Brook is a small urban stream in Boston, Massachusetts, that runs through several neighborhoods and is largely culverted and integrated into the city’s Emerald Necklace park system.
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B.
Stony Brook
Stony Brook is a stream in New Jersey that flows through the Princeton Battlefield area and played a notable role in the terrain of the Revolutionary War battle fought there.
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C.
Oyster Bay
Oyster Bay is a coastal town on Long Island, New York, historically notable as the longtime home and final residence of U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt.
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D.
Manhasset Bay
Manhasset Bay is a sheltered inlet of Long Island Sound on the north shore of Long Island in New York, known for its marinas, boating, and waterfront communities.
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E.
Flushing Bay
Flushing Bay is a tidal embayment in northern Queens, New York City, forming part of the East River and lying adjacent to major landmarks such as LaGuardia Airport and Citi Field.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Stony Brook Description of subject: Stony Brook is a hamlet on the North Shore of Long Island in New York, best known as the home of Stony Brook University and its associated research and medical institutions.
Referenced by (17)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Stony Brook Harbor
this entity surface form:
Stony Brook Harbor