Port of Wilmington
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The Port of Wilmington is a major deep-water seaport and transportation hub on the Cape Fear River that supports container, bulk, and general cargo trade for the southeastern United States.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Port of Wilmington canonical | 5 |
| Port of Wilmington, North Carolina | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1872872 — 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 Wilmington Context triple: [Wilmington, North Carolina, hasPort, Port of Wilmington]
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A.
Port of Wilmington
The Port of Wilmington is a key deepwater seaport and cargo hub in Wilmington, Delaware, known especially for handling fresh fruit, juice concentrates, and other refrigerated and bulk cargoes.
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B.
Port of Brunswick
The Port of Brunswick is a major deepwater seaport on the southeastern coast of the United States, known especially as one of the nation’s leading gateways for automobile and Ro/Ro cargo imports and exports.
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C.
Port of Camden
The Port of Camden is a commercial shipping and industrial port located along the Delaware River in Camden, New Jersey, serving as a key regional hub for cargo handling and maritime trade.
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D.
Port of Newport
The Port of Newport is a major Oregon coastal port and marina complex that supports commercial fishing, shipping, and recreational boating on the central Pacific coast.
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E.
Port of Baltimore
The Port of Baltimore is a major U.S. seaport on the Chesapeake Bay known for its high-volume roll-on/roll-off and automobile shipping, as well as its role in international container and bulk cargo trade.
- 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 Wilmington Target entity description: The Port of Wilmington is a major deep-water seaport and transportation hub on the Cape Fear River that supports container, bulk, and general cargo trade for the southeastern United States.
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A.
Port of Wilmington
The Port of Wilmington is a key deepwater seaport and cargo hub in Wilmington, Delaware, known especially for handling fresh fruit, juice concentrates, and other refrigerated and bulk cargoes.
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B.
Port of Brunswick
The Port of Brunswick is a major deepwater seaport on the southeastern coast of the United States, known especially as one of the nation’s leading gateways for automobile and Ro/Ro cargo imports and exports.
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C.
Port of Camden
The Port of Camden is a commercial shipping and industrial port located along the Delaware River in Camden, New Jersey, serving as a key regional hub for cargo handling and maritime trade.
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D.
Port of Newport
The Port of Newport is a major Oregon coastal port and marina complex that supports commercial fishing, shipping, and recreational boating on the central Pacific coast.
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E.
Port of Baltimore
The Port of Baltimore is a major U.S. seaport on the Chesapeake Bay known for its high-volume roll-on/roll-off and automobile shipping, as well as its role in international container and bulk cargo trade.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
deep-water port
ⓘ
seaport ⓘ transportation hub ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| economicRole |
supports import and export activities
ⓘ
supports regional trade ⓘ |
| function |
cargo handling
ⓘ
logistics hub ⓘ maritime trade ⓘ |
| governingBody |
North Carolina State Ports Authority system
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surface form:
North Carolina State Ports Authority
|
| handlesCargoType |
bulk cargo
ⓘ
container cargo ⓘ general cargo ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
bulk cargo facilities
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container terminal ⓘ general cargo berths ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Wilmington
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surface form:
Wilmington, North Carolina
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| locatedNear | Atlantic Ocean ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Cape Fear River ⓘ |
| partOf | North Carolina State Ports Authority system ⓘ |
| regionServed | southeastern United States ⓘ |
| river | Cape Fear River ⓘ |
| servesCity |
Wilmington
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surface form:
Wilmington, North Carolina
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| servesRegion | U.S. Southeast ⓘ |
| servesState | North Carolina ⓘ |
| state | North Carolina ⓘ |
| transportConnection |
rail connections
ⓘ
truck and highway connections ⓘ |
| transportMode | maritime transport ⓘ |
| waterwayType | deep-water channel ⓘ |
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 Wilmington Description of subject: The Port of Wilmington is a major deep-water seaport and transportation hub on the Cape Fear River that supports container, bulk, and general cargo trade for the southeastern United States.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Wilmington, North Carolina
this entity surface form:
Port of Wilmington, North Carolina
subject surface form:
Wilmington, North Carolina
this entity surface form:
Port of Wilmington, North Carolina