Wilmington, Delaware
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Wilmington, Delaware is the largest city in the state of Delaware and a major financial and corporate hub strategically located between Philadelphia and Baltimore.
All labels observed (11)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T137363 — 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: Wilmington, Delaware Context triple: [Northeast Corridor, serves, Wilmington, Delaware]
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Annapolis
Annapolis is a historic U.S. city on the Chesapeake Bay known for its colonial architecture, maritime heritage, and as the home of the United States Naval Academy.
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Alexandria, Virginia
Alexandria, Virginia is a historic independent city just south of Washington, D.C., known for its well-preserved Old Town waterfront, colonial-era architecture, and role as a major port and community along the Potomac River.
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C.
Norfolk, Virginia
Norfolk, Virginia is a historic independent port city in southeastern Virginia, known for hosting the world’s largest naval base and serving as a major cultural and economic center of the Hampton Roads region.
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D.
Philadelphia
Philadelphia is a major historic U.S. city in Pennsylvania known for its role in the American Revolution, iconic landmarks like Independence Hall and the Liberty Bell, and its rich cultural and academic institutions.
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E.
Baltimore
Baltimore is a major independent city and seaport in Maryland, United States, known for its historic harbor, diverse neighborhoods, and significant cultural and economic role in the Mid-Atlantic region.
- 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: Wilmington, Delaware Target entity description: Wilmington, Delaware is the largest city in the state of Delaware and a major financial and corporate hub strategically located between Philadelphia and Baltimore.
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A.
Annapolis
Annapolis is a historic U.S. city on the Chesapeake Bay known for its colonial architecture, maritime heritage, and as the home of the United States Naval Academy.
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B.
Alexandria, Virginia
Alexandria, Virginia is a historic independent city just south of Washington, D.C., known for its well-preserved Old Town waterfront, colonial-era architecture, and role as a major port and community along the Potomac River.
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C.
Norfolk, Virginia
Norfolk, Virginia is a historic independent port city in southeastern Virginia, known for hosting the world’s largest naval base and serving as a major cultural and economic center of the Hampton Roads region.
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Philadelphia
Philadelphia is a major historic U.S. city in Pennsylvania known for its role in the American Revolution, iconic landmarks like Independence Hall and the Liberty Bell, and its rich cultural and academic institutions.
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E.
Baltimore
Baltimore is a major independent city and seaport in Maryland, United States, known for its historic harbor, diverse neighborhoods, and significant cultural and economic role in the Mid-Atlantic region.
- 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: Wilmington, Delaware Description of subject: Wilmington, Delaware is the largest city in the state of Delaware and a major financial and corporate hub strategically located between Philadelphia and Baltimore.
Referenced by (151)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
U.S. Route 202
this entity surface form:
Wilmington, Delaware area
subject surface form:
Delaware Blue Coats
subject surface form:
Delaware Blue Coats
subject surface form:
Howard Pyle
this entity surface form:
Wilmington, Delaware, United States
this entity surface form:
Wilmington, Delaware, United States
this entity surface form:
Wilmington, Delaware, United States
this entity surface form:
Wilmington, Delaware, United States
this entity surface form:
Wilmington, Delaware, United States
this entity surface form:
present-day Wilmington, Delaware
this entity surface form:
Wilmington, Delaware, United States
this entity surface form:
Wilmington, Delaware, United States
subject surface form:
Delaware River