Fort Totten
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Fort Totten is a residential neighborhood in Northeast Washington, D.C., known for its proximity to the large Fort Totten Metro station and the historic Civil War-era fort site.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Fort Totten canonical | 8 |
| Defenses of Washington | 1 |
| Fort Slocum (site) | 1 |
| Fort Totten (Civil War fort) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1217885 — 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: Fort Totten Context triple: [Red Line (Washington Metro), servesNeighborhood, Fort Totten]
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A.
Fort Willem Hendrick
Fort Willem Hendrick was a 17th-century Dutch colonial fortification in what is now Lower Manhattan, serving as a key military and administrative center of New Netherland.
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B.
Fort Jay
Fort Jay is a historic coastal fortification on Governors Island in New York Harbor, notable for its star-shaped design and long military service from the early 19th century through the Cold War.
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C.
Fort Wadsworth
Fort Wadsworth is a historic former military installation and coastal defense fortification located at the Narrows in New York Harbor, now part of the Gateway National Recreation Area.
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D.
Fort Hamilton
Fort Hamilton is a 19th-century British coastal artillery fort in Hamilton, Bermuda, built to defend the harbor and now preserved as a historic site and tourist attraction.
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E.
Fort Hamilton
Fort Hamilton is a historic U.S. Army installation in Brooklyn, New York, guarding the entrance to New York Harbor at the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge.
- 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: Fort Totten Target entity description: Fort Totten is a residential neighborhood in Northeast Washington, D.C., known for its proximity to the large Fort Totten Metro station and the historic Civil War-era fort site.
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A.
Fort Willem Hendrick
Fort Willem Hendrick was a 17th-century Dutch colonial fortification in what is now Lower Manhattan, serving as a key military and administrative center of New Netherland.
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B.
Fort Jay
Fort Jay is a historic coastal fortification on Governors Island in New York Harbor, notable for its star-shaped design and long military service from the early 19th century through the Cold War.
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C.
Fort Wadsworth
Fort Wadsworth is a historic former military installation and coastal defense fortification located at the Narrows in New York Harbor, now part of the Gateway National Recreation Area.
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D.
Fort Hamilton
Fort Hamilton is a 19th-century British coastal artillery fort in Hamilton, Bermuda, built to defend the harbor and now preserved as a historic site and tourist attraction.
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E.
Fort Hamilton
Fort Hamilton is a historic U.S. Army installation in Brooklyn, New York, guarding the entrance to New York Harbor at the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human settlement
ⓘ
neighborhood ⓘ residential area ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| hasAreaCode | 202 ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
historic Civil War-era earthworks nearby
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mixed-density housing ⓘ proximity to major transit hub ⓘ |
| hasLandUse |
parkland
ⓘ
residential ⓘ |
| hasNearby |
Fort Totten station
ⓘ
surface form:
Fort Totten Metro station
Fort Totten Park ⓘ Fort Totten historic Civil War fort site ⓘ |
| hasTransportationInfrastructure |
Metrorail lines
ⓘ
bus routes ⓘ |
| hasZIPCode | 20011 ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Northeast Washington, D.C.
ⓘ
Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
Fort Totten
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Fort Totten (Civil War fort)
|
| near |
Brookland
ⓘ
The Catholic University of America ⓘ
surface form:
Catholic University of America
North Michigan Park ⓘ Riggs Park ⓘ Takoma ⓘ |
| partOf |
District of Columbia
ⓘ
Northeast quadrant of Washington, D.C. ⓘ Ward 5 of Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| servedBy |
Fort Totten station (Washington Metro)
ⓘ
Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority ⓘ |
| timeZone | Eastern Time Zone ⓘ |
| UTCOffset | UTC−05:00 ⓘ |
| UTCOffsetDST | UTC−04:00 ⓘ |
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: Fort Totten Description of subject: Fort Totten is a residential neighborhood in Northeast Washington, D.C., known for its proximity to the large Fort Totten Metro station and the historic Civil War-era fort site.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Red Line (Washington Metro)
this entity surface form:
Fort Totten (Civil War fort)
this entity surface form:
Fort Slocum (site)
this entity surface form:
Defenses of Washington