WaterFire
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WaterFire is a renowned public art installation and festival in Providence, Rhode Island, featuring bonfires lit on the rivers that run through the city’s downtown.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| WaterFire canonical | 1 |
| WaterFire Providence | 1 |
| WaterFire Providence (nonprofit organization) | 1 |
| WaterFire art installation | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1478946 — 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: WaterFire Context triple: [Providence, hasLandmark, WaterFire]
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A.
the lake of fire
The lake of fire is a symbolic place of final judgment and eternal punishment in Christian eschatology, prominently depicted in the Book of Revelation.
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B.
Brennen
Brennen is a given name, typically used as a variant spelling of Brennan.
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C.
Lightwater
Lightwater is a village and civil parish in the English county of Surrey, known for its residential character and proximity to heathland and countryside.
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D.
Throwing Fire
"Throwing Fire" is a historical study by Alfred W. Crosby that examines how the development and use of explosive weapons have shaped human warfare and global history.
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E.
Il fuoco
"Il fuoco" is a 1900 novel by Italian writer Gabriele D’Annunzio, renowned for its decadent style and its thinly veiled portrayal of his passionate affair with actress Eleonora Duse against the backdrop of fin-de-siècle Venice.
- 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: WaterFire Target entity description: WaterFire is a renowned public art installation and festival in Providence, Rhode Island, featuring bonfires lit on the rivers that run through the city’s downtown.
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A.
the lake of fire
The lake of fire is a symbolic place of final judgment and eternal punishment in Christian eschatology, prominently depicted in the Book of Revelation.
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B.
Brennen
Brennen is a given name, typically used as a variant spelling of Brennan.
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C.
Lightwater
Lightwater is a village and civil parish in the English county of Surrey, known for its residential character and proximity to heathland and countryside.
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D.
Throwing Fire
"Throwing Fire" is a historical study by Alfred W. Crosby that examines how the development and use of explosive weapons have shaped human warfare and global history.
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E.
Il fuoco
"Il fuoco" is a 1900 novel by Italian writer Gabriele D’Annunzio, renowned for its decadent style and its thinly veiled portrayal of his passionate affair with actress Eleonora Duse against the backdrop of fin-de-siècle Venice.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
arts festival
ⓘ
cultural event ⓘ public art installation ⓘ |
| attendance | hundreds of thousands of visitors annually ⓘ |
| city | Providence ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| creator | Barnaby Evans ⓘ |
| followsCourseOf |
Moshassuck River
ⓘ
Providence River ⓘ Woonasquatucket River ⓘ |
| fundingSource |
donations
ⓘ
grants ⓘ sponsorships ⓘ |
| genre |
performance art
ⓘ
public art ⓘ site-specific art ⓘ |
| hasComponent |
ambient music along the riverwalk
ⓘ
lighting ceremonies ⓘ onshore performances and activities ⓘ series of braziers mounted in the rivers ⓘ |
| hasImpactOn |
local economy of Providence
ⓘ
public perception of Providence’s rivers and downtown ⓘ |
| hasMedium |
fire on water
ⓘ
soundscape ⓘ urban landscape ⓘ |
| hasOfficialWebsite | https://waterfire.org/ ⓘ |
| hasPurpose |
celebration of community and urban space
ⓘ
promotion of arts and culture in Providence ⓘ |
| hasVolunteerProgram | yes ⓘ |
| inception | 1994 ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Providence, Rhode Island, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
Providence, Rhode Island
|
| mainVenue | rivers in downtown Providence ⓘ |
| notableRecognition | internationally recognized public art event ⓘ |
| operatedBy | nonprofit organization ⓘ |
| organizer |
WaterFire
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
WaterFire Providence (nonprofit organization)
|
| significantFor |
attracting tourists to Providence
ⓘ
community engagement through the arts ⓘ revitalization of downtown Providence ⓘ |
| state | Rhode Island ⓘ |
| typicalSchedule | multiple evenings each year ⓘ |
| typicalSeason | late spring to early fall ⓘ |
| typicalTimeOfDay | evening ⓘ |
| uses |
aroma of burning wood
ⓘ
bonfires ⓘ fire ⓘ light ⓘ music ⓘ volunteer performers ⓘ |
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: WaterFire Description of subject: WaterFire is a renowned public art installation and festival in Providence, Rhode Island, featuring bonfires lit on the rivers that run through the city’s downtown.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
WaterFire Providence (nonprofit organization)
this entity surface form:
WaterFire art installation
this entity surface form:
WaterFire Providence