Washington Navy Yard
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The Washington Navy Yard is a historic United States Navy facility in Washington, D.C., long serving as a major shipbuilding, ordnance, and administrative center for the Navy.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Washington Navy Yard canonical | 12 |
| Navy Yard, Washington, D.C. (design work) | 1 |
| United States Navy Yard | 1 |
| Washington Navy Yard campus | 1 |
| Washington Navy Yard, Washington, D.C. | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1566455 — 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: Washington Navy Yard Context triple: [National Museum of the United States Navy, locatedOnTerrainFeature, Washington Navy Yard]
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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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Puget Sound Navy Yard
Puget Sound Navy Yard, now known as Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, is a major U.S. Navy shipbuilding and repair facility located in Bremerton, Washington.
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Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard
Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard is a major U.S. Navy industrial facility in Hawaii that provides maintenance, repair, and modernization services for naval vessels and submarines.
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Charlestown Navy Yard
Charlestown Navy Yard is a historic former U.S. Navy shipyard in Boston, Massachusetts, known for its role in American naval history and as the home port of the USS Constitution.
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Mare Island Naval Shipyard
Mare Island Naval Shipyard was a major U.S. Navy shipbuilding and repair facility in Vallejo, California, notable as one of the first permanent naval shipyards on the West Coast.
- 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: Washington Navy Yard Target entity description: The Washington Navy Yard is a historic United States Navy facility in Washington, D.C., long serving as a major shipbuilding, ordnance, and administrative center for the Navy.
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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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B.
Puget Sound Navy Yard
Puget Sound Navy Yard, now known as Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, is a major U.S. Navy shipbuilding and repair facility located in Bremerton, Washington.
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C.
Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard
Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard is a major U.S. Navy industrial facility in Hawaii that provides maintenance, repair, and modernization services for naval vessels and submarines.
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Charlestown Navy Yard
Charlestown Navy Yard is a historic former U.S. Navy shipyard in Boston, Massachusetts, known for its role in American naval history and as the home port of the USS Constitution.
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Mare Island Naval Shipyard
Mare Island Naval Shipyard was a major U.S. Navy shipbuilding and repair facility in Vallejo, California, notable as one of the first permanent naval shipyards on the West Coast.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United States Navy facility
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historic district ⓘ industrial site ⓘ |
| adjacentTo |
Navy Yard neighborhood
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surface form:
Navy Yard–Ballpark neighborhood
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| category |
Historic districts in Washington, D.C.
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Military installations in Washington, D.C. ⓘ United States Navy yards ⓘ |
| city | Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| constructionStart | 1799 ⓘ |
| contains |
National Museum of the United States Navy
ⓘ
Naval Sea Systems Command ⓘ
surface form:
Naval Sea Systems Command headquarters
National Museum of the United States Navy ⓘ
surface form:
U.S. Navy Museum
historic industrial buildings ⓘ offices of the Chief of Naval Operations (historically) ⓘ parade grounds ⓘ |
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| currentFunction |
administrative headquarters
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ceremonial center ⓘ museum complex ⓘ |
| establishedBy | United States Congress ⓘ |
| formerFunction |
primary shipbuilding yard for the U.S. Navy
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weapons manufacturing facility ⓘ |
| function |
administrative center for the U.S. Navy
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ordnance production center ⓘ shipbuilding center ⓘ |
| governingBody | United States Navy ⓘ |
| heritageDesignation | U.S. National Historic Landmark District ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | historic district in Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| historicalEra |
Early Republic of the United States
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surface form:
Early national period of the United States
|
| listedOn | National Register of Historic Places ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Southeast Washington, D.C.
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Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Anacostia River ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Navy ⓘ |
| near | Capitol Hill ⓘ |
| notableFor |
continuous operation since the 18th century
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production of naval ordnance ⓘ role in early U.S. naval ship construction ⓘ |
| opened | 1799 ⓘ |
| operatedBy | United States Navy ⓘ |
| ownedBy | United States Navy ⓘ |
| partOf | Naval District Washington ⓘ |
| significance | one of the oldest shore establishments of the U.S. Navy ⓘ |
| state | District of Columbia ⓘ |
| usedFor |
logistics and support activities
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naval administration ⓘ research and development support ⓘ |
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: Washington Navy Yard Description of subject: The Washington Navy Yard is a historic United States Navy facility in Washington, D.C., long serving as a major shipbuilding, ordnance, and administrative center for the Navy.
Referenced by (16)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
United States Navy Yard
this entity surface form:
Navy Yard, Washington, D.C. (design work)
this entity surface form:
Washington Navy Yard campus
this entity surface form:
Washington Navy Yard, Washington, D.C.