Paterson, New Jersey
E19335
Paterson, New Jersey is a historic industrial city in northern New Jersey known for its diverse immigrant communities, including a significant Dutch American presence.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Paterson, New Jersey canonical | 37 |
| Paterson | 10 |
| Paterson, New Jersey, United States | 9 |
| City of Paterson | 5 |
| City of Paterson government | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6545 — 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: Paterson, New Jersey Context triple: [Dutch Americans, notableCommunity, Paterson, New Jersey]
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Hoboken
Hoboken is a small New Jersey city across the Hudson River from Manhattan, known for its waterfront views, historic brownstones, and vibrant dining and nightlife scene.
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B.
Jersey City
Jersey City is a major New Jersey city across the Hudson River from Lower Manhattan, known for its waterfront skyline, diverse communities, and role as a key financial and transportation hub in the New York metropolitan area.
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C.
Piscataway, New Jersey
Piscataway, New Jersey is a suburban township in Middlesex County known for hosting major corporate and institutional facilities, including the headquarters of the IEEE Standards Association and parts of Rutgers University.
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D.
Newburgh, New York
Newburgh, New York is a historic city in the Hudson Valley known for its waterfront along the Hudson River and its significant role in early American history.
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E.
Yonkers, New York
Yonkers, New York is a major suburban city just north of New York City, known for its historic waterfront, diverse neighborhoods, and role as one of the largest cities in the state.
- 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: Paterson, New Jersey Target entity description: Paterson, New Jersey is a historic industrial city in northern New Jersey known for its diverse immigrant communities, including a significant Dutch American presence.
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A.
Hoboken
Hoboken is a small New Jersey city across the Hudson River from Manhattan, known for its waterfront views, historic brownstones, and vibrant dining and nightlife scene.
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B.
Jersey City
Jersey City is a major New Jersey city across the Hudson River from Lower Manhattan, known for its waterfront skyline, diverse communities, and role as a key financial and transportation hub in the New York metropolitan area.
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C.
Piscataway, New Jersey
Piscataway, New Jersey is a suburban township in Middlesex County known for hosting major corporate and institutional facilities, including the headquarters of the IEEE Standards Association and parts of Rutgers University.
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D.
Newburgh, New York
Newburgh, New York is a historic city in the Hudson Valley known for its waterfront along the Hudson River and its significant role in early American history.
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E.
Yonkers, New York
Yonkers, New York is a major suburban city just north of New York City, known for its historic waterfront, diverse neighborhoods, and role as one of the largest cities in the state.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Paterson, New Jersey Description of subject: Paterson, New Jersey is a historic industrial city in northern New Jersey known for its diverse immigrant communities, including a significant Dutch American presence.
Referenced by (62)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Paterson, New Jersey, United States
this entity surface form:
Paterson, New Jersey, United States