Port of San Francisco
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The Port of San Francisco is a major maritime facility and waterfront district on the city’s eastern shoreline, serving as a hub for cargo, ferries, cruise ships, and commercial development.
All labels observed (12)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T70624 — 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: Port of San Francisco Context triple: [San Francisco Bay, hasPort, Port of San Francisco]
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A.
Port of Oakland
The Port of Oakland is a major deep-water seaport in Northern California and one of the primary container shipping hubs on the U.S. West Coast.
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B.
Port of Portland
The Port of Portland is a major Pacific Northwest seaport and transportation hub in Oregon that handles international maritime trade, cargo, and regional logistics.
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C.
Port of Tacoma
The Port of Tacoma is a major deep-water seaport in Washington State that serves as a key hub for international container shipping and trade in the Pacific Northwest.
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D.
Port of Long Beach
The Port of Long Beach is one of the busiest and most important container seaports in the United States, serving as a major gateway for trans-Pacific trade.
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E.
Port of Los Angeles
The Port of Los Angeles is the busiest container port in the United States and a major gateway for trans-Pacific trade, located in San Pedro Bay in Southern California.
- 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: Port of San Francisco Target entity description: The Port of San Francisco is a major maritime facility and waterfront district on the city’s eastern shoreline, serving as a hub for cargo, ferries, cruise ships, and commercial development.
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A.
Port of Oakland
The Port of Oakland is a major deep-water seaport in Northern California and one of the primary container shipping hubs on the U.S. West Coast.
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B.
Port of Portland
The Port of Portland is a major Pacific Northwest seaport and transportation hub in Oregon that handles international maritime trade, cargo, and regional logistics.
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C.
Port of Tacoma
The Port of Tacoma is a major deep-water seaport in Washington State that serves as a key hub for international container shipping and trade in the Pacific Northwest.
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D.
Port of Long Beach
The Port of Long Beach is one of the busiest and most important container seaports in the United States, serving as a major gateway for trans-Pacific trade.
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E.
Port of Los Angeles
The Port of Los Angeles is the busiest container port in the United States and a major gateway for trans-Pacific trade, located in San Pedro Bay in Southern California.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
port authority
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seaport ⓘ special district ⓘ |
| adjacentTo |
Embarcadero Historic District
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San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge ⓘ Northeast San Francisco ⓘ
surface form:
downtown San Francisco
|
| coordinates | 37.795°N 122.393°W ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| foundedBy |
California, United States
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surface form:
State of California
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| foundingAct | Burton Act ⓘ |
| foundingDate | 1969 ⓘ |
| governingBody |
Port of San Francisco
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
San Francisco Port Commission
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| hasHeritageStatus | many piers and bulkhead buildings listed on the National Register of Historic Places ⓘ |
| hasPart |
China Basin
ⓘ
Cruise Terminal at Pier 27 ⓘ Ferry Building ⓘ Fisherman’s Wharf ⓘ
surface form:
Fisherman’s Wharf waterfront area
Heron’s Head Park shoreline ⓘ Mission Bay ⓘ
surface form:
Mission Bay waterfront
Pier 35 cruise terminal facilities ⓘ Pier 39 ⓘ Piers 1 through 5 ⓘ Piers 30–32 ⓘ Piers 48–50 ⓘ Embarcadero waterfront ⓘ
surface form:
Piers 70 and adjacent shipyard area
South Beach Harbor ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
San Francisco
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surface form:
San Francisco, California
|
| industry |
cargo handling
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maritime transport ⓘ passenger transport ⓘ real estate development ⓘ tourism ⓘ |
| jurisdiction |
San Francisco County
ⓘ
surface form:
City and County of San Francisco
|
| legalStatus | self-supporting enterprise department of the City and County of San Francisco ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
California
San Francisco ⓘ |
| locatedOn |
San Francisco Bay
ⓘ
eastern shoreline of San Francisco ⓘ |
| manages |
Port of San Francisco
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
San Francisco waterfront
piers along the Embarcadero ⓘ |
| operator |
Port of San Francisco
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
San Francisco Port Commission
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| ownedBy |
San Francisco County
ⓘ
surface form:
City and County of San Francisco
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| primaryFunction |
cargo and bulk terminal operations
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cruise terminal operations ⓘ ferry terminal operations ⓘ management of waterfront real estate ⓘ maritime operations management ⓘ |
| serves |
cargo ships
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commuter ferries ⓘ cruise ships ⓘ ferries ⓘ tourist vessels ⓘ |
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: Port of San Francisco Description of subject: The Port of San Francisco is a major maritime facility and waterfront district on the city’s eastern shoreline, serving as a hub for cargo, ferries, cruise ships, and commercial development.
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San Francisco waterfront
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San Francisco waterfront
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San Francisco Port Commission
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Port of San Francisco waterfront
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Northern Waterfront of San Francisco
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San Francisco waterfront
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San Francisco waterfront
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San Francisco waterfront
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San Francisco waterfront
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San Francisco waterfront
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San Francisco Bay waterfront (approximate)
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San Francisco waterfront
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San Francisco waterfront
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San Francisco waterfront
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San Francisco waterfront
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San Francisco waterfront
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San Francisco Port waterfront redevelopment area
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Port of San Francisco facilities
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San Francisco waterfront
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Port of San Francisco area
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San Francisco eastern waterfront
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San Francisco waterfront