Tacoma, Washington
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Tacoma, Washington is a mid-sized port city in the Pacific Northwest known for its waterfront, industrial history, and vibrant arts and museum scene.
All labels observed (12)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T54662 — 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: Tacoma, Washington Context triple: [Pacific Northwest, hasMajorCity, Tacoma, Washington]
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Lynden, Washington
Lynden, Washington is a small city in Whatcom County known for its strong Dutch-American heritage, dairy farming, and traditional festivals.
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B.
Seattle, Washington, United States
Seattle, Washington, United States is a major Pacific Northwest city known for its tech industry, vibrant cultural scene, and iconic landmarks like the Space Needle.
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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.
Skagway
Skagway is a historic Alaskan town known as a gateway to the Klondike Gold Rush region and a popular cruise ship stop in the Inside Passage.
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E.
Juneau
Juneau is a remote, coastal city in southeastern Alaska known for its dramatic mountain-and-glacier scenery and role as the state's political and administrative center.
- 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: Tacoma, Washington Target entity description: Tacoma, Washington is a mid-sized port city in the Pacific Northwest known for its waterfront, industrial history, and vibrant arts and museum scene.
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A.
Lynden, Washington
Lynden, Washington is a small city in Whatcom County known for its strong Dutch-American heritage, dairy farming, and traditional festivals.
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B.
Seattle, Washington, United States
Seattle, Washington, United States is a major Pacific Northwest city known for its tech industry, vibrant cultural scene, and iconic landmarks like the Space Needle.
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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.
Skagway
Skagway is a historic Alaskan town known as a gateway to the Klondike Gold Rush region and a popular cruise ship stop in the Inside Passage.
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E.
Juneau
Juneau is a remote, coastal city in southeastern Alaska known for its dramatic mountain-and-glacier scenery and role as the state's political and administrative center.
- 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: Tacoma, Washington Description of subject: Tacoma, Washington is a mid-sized port city in the Pacific Northwest known for its waterfront, industrial history, and vibrant arts and museum scene.
Referenced by (259)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Tacoma metropolitan area
this entity surface form:
Tacoma metropolitan area
this entity surface form:
Tacoma area
this entity surface form:
Tacoma
this entity surface form:
city of Tacoma, Washington (parts, depending on redistricting)
subject surface form:
Downtown Tacoma
subject surface form:
Downtown Tacoma
this entity surface form:
City of Tacoma
this entity surface form:
Old Town Tacoma
this entity surface form:
City of Tacoma
this entity surface form:
Tacoma
this entity surface form:
Tacoma, Washington, United States
this entity surface form:
Tacoma
subject surface form:
Tacoma Narrows
this entity surface form:
city of Tacoma
subject surface form:
Tacoma Narrows
this entity surface form:
Tacoma
subject surface form:
Tacoma Narrows
this entity surface form:
city of Tacoma
this entity surface form:
Tacoma metropolitan area
this entity surface form:
Tacoma, Washington, United States
this entity surface form:
Tacoma, Washington, United States
this entity surface form:
Tacoma
subject surface form:
Washington (state)