Dry Dock No. 4
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Dry Dock No. 4 is a historic early-20th-century naval dry dock at the Brooklyn Navy Yard in New York City, notable for its role in the construction and repair of U.S. Navy vessels.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Dry Dock No. 4 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1331778 — 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: Dry Dock No. 4 Context triple: [Brooklyn Navy Yard, hasHistoricStructure, Dry Dock No. 4]
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Dry Dock No. 3
Dry Dock No. 3 is a historic 19th-century stone dry dock at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, notable for its role in U.S. naval shipbuilding and repair.
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B.
Dry Dock No. 2
Dry Dock No. 2 is a historic early-19th-century stone dry dock at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, notable for its role in U.S. naval shipbuilding and maritime engineering.
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C.
Dry Dock No. 1
Dry Dock No. 1 is a historic 19th-century stone dry dock at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, notable as one of the oldest surviving naval dry docks in the United States.
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D.
Portsmouth Naval Shipyard
Portsmouth Naval Shipyard is a historic U.S. Navy shipbuilding and repair facility located in Kittery, Maine, known especially for constructing and overhauling naval vessels including submarines.
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E.
Eldean Shipyard
Eldean Shipyard is a full-service marina and boatyard located on Lake Macatawa in Michigan, known for its docking, storage, and marine maintenance services.
- 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: Dry Dock No. 4 Target entity description: Dry Dock No. 4 is a historic early-20th-century naval dry dock at the Brooklyn Navy Yard in New York City, notable for its role in the construction and repair of U.S. Navy vessels.
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A.
Dry Dock No. 3
Dry Dock No. 3 is a historic 19th-century stone dry dock at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, notable for its role in U.S. naval shipbuilding and repair.
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B.
Dry Dock No. 2
Dry Dock No. 2 is a historic early-19th-century stone dry dock at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, notable for its role in U.S. naval shipbuilding and maritime engineering.
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C.
Dry Dock No. 1
Dry Dock No. 1 is a historic 19th-century stone dry dock at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, notable as one of the oldest surviving naval dry docks in the United States.
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D.
Portsmouth Naval Shipyard
Portsmouth Naval Shipyard is a historic U.S. Navy shipbuilding and repair facility located in Kittery, Maine, known especially for constructing and overhauling naval vessels including submarines.
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E.
Eldean Shipyard
Eldean Shipyard is a full-service marina and boatyard located on Lake Macatawa in Michigan, known for its docking, storage, and marine maintenance services.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
historic structure
ⓘ
industrial heritage site ⓘ naval dry dock ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
U.S. Navy ship repair
ⓘ
United States Navy shipyards ⓘ
surface form:
U.S. Navy shipbuilding
|
| category |
Brooklyn Navy Yard
ⓘ
surface form:
Brooklyn Navy Yard structures
dry docks in New York City ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| designedFor | large naval vessels ⓘ |
| era | early 20th century ⓘ |
| function | to allow ships to be drained of water for work below the waterline ⓘ |
| hasAccessType | restricted military facility ⓘ |
| heritageSignificance | early 20th-century naval infrastructure ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Brooklyn
ⓘ
Brooklyn Navy Yard ⓘ New York City ⓘ New York ⓘ
surface form:
New York State
|
| locatedInNeighborhood | Wallabout Bay area ⓘ |
| locatedOnWaterbody | East River ⓘ |
| material |
reinforced concrete
ⓘ
steel ⓘ |
| notableFor |
role in construction of U.S. Navy vessels
ⓘ
role in repair of U.S. Navy vessels ⓘ |
| operator | United States Navy ⓘ |
| ownedBy | United States Navy ⓘ |
| partOf | Brooklyn Navy Yard ⓘ |
| sector | military maritime infrastructure ⓘ |
| use |
maintenance of naval vessels
ⓘ
ship construction ⓘ ship repair ⓘ |
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: Dry Dock No. 4 Description of subject: Dry Dock No. 4 is a historic early-20th-century naval dry dock at the Brooklyn Navy Yard in New York City, notable for its role in the construction and repair of U.S. Navy vessels.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.