York Island
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York Island is one of the Apostle Islands in Lake Superior, known for its forested landscape and relatively undeveloped, natural shoreline within Apostle Islands National Lakeshore.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| York Island canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1035693 — 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: York Island Context triple: [Apostle Islands, hasIsland, York Island]
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A.
Wolfe Island
Wolfe Island is the largest of the Thousand Islands, located at the entrance to the Saint Lawrence River near Kingston, Ontario, and known for its rural landscape, wind farm, and ferry connection to the mainland.
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B.
Amherst Island
Amherst Island is a rural island community in eastern Lake Ontario, known for its pastoral landscapes, birdlife, and small historic settlements.
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C.
North Bay Island
North Bay Island is a small, scenic island near Port Blair in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands of India, popular for snorkeling, scuba diving, and coral reef viewing.
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D.
Great Island
Great Island is a large, mostly undeveloped barrier peninsula and hiking area within the Cape Cod National Seashore in Wellfleet, Massachusetts, known for its beaches, salt marshes, and scenic trails.
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E.
Brewsters Islands
Brewsters Islands are a small group of islands in Boston Harbor known for their rugged coastal scenery and historic maritime significance.
- 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: York Island Target entity description: York Island is one of the Apostle Islands in Lake Superior, known for its forested landscape and relatively undeveloped, natural shoreline within Apostle Islands National Lakeshore.
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A.
Wolfe Island
Wolfe Island is the largest of the Thousand Islands, located at the entrance to the Saint Lawrence River near Kingston, Ontario, and known for its rural landscape, wind farm, and ferry connection to the mainland.
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B.
Amherst Island
Amherst Island is a rural island community in eastern Lake Ontario, known for its pastoral landscapes, birdlife, and small historic settlements.
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C.
North Bay Island
North Bay Island is a small, scenic island near Port Blair in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands of India, popular for snorkeling, scuba diving, and coral reef viewing.
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D.
Great Island
Great Island is a large, mostly undeveloped barrier peninsula and hiking area within the Cape Cod National Seashore in Wellfleet, Massachusetts, known for its beaches, salt marshes, and scenic trails.
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E.
Brewsters Islands
Brewsters Islands are a small group of islands in Boston Harbor known for their rugged coastal scenery and historic maritime significance.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Apostle Islands island
ⓘ
island ⓘ |
| access | only by boat ⓘ |
| archipelago | Apostle Islands ⓘ |
| bodyOfWater | Lake Superior ⓘ |
| conservationFocus |
preservation of natural shoreline
ⓘ
protection of forested ecosystems ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| countryAdminBody | National Park Service ⓘ |
| county | Ashland County, Wisconsin ⓘ |
| developmentLevel | largely undeveloped ⓘ |
| hasCoastlineCharacteristic |
natural shoreline
ⓘ
relatively undeveloped shoreline ⓘ |
| hasEcosystem |
boreal forest elements
ⓘ
northern hardwood forest ⓘ |
| hasLandscapeFeature | forested landscape ⓘ |
| hasRecreationActivity |
backcountry camping
ⓘ
hiking ⓘ kayak landing ⓘ |
| hasVegetation | mixed coniferous and deciduous trees ⓘ |
| hasWildlifeHabitat |
habitat for migratory birds
ⓘ
habitat for small mammals ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Apostle Islands
ⓘ
Apostle Islands ⓘ
surface form:
Apostle Islands National Lakeshore
Lake Superior ⓘ |
| management |
Apostle Islands
ⓘ
surface form:
Apostle Islands National Lakeshore administration
|
| partOf |
Apostle Islands
ⓘ
surface form:
Apostle Islands National Lakeshore
|
| protectedAreaStatus | within a U.S. National Lakeshore ⓘ |
| region | northern Wisconsin ⓘ |
| state | Wisconsin ⓘ |
| tourismType | nature-based tourism ⓘ |
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: York Island Description of subject: York Island is one of the Apostle Islands in Lake Superior, known for its forested landscape and relatively undeveloped, natural shoreline within Apostle Islands National Lakeshore.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.