Point Roberts
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Point Roberts is a small, geographically isolated U.S. community located on a peninsula south of Vancouver, British Columbia, that is accessible by land only through Canada.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Point Roberts, Washington | 5 |
| Point Roberts canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2826658 — 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: Point Roberts Context triple: [Whatcom County, containsSettlement, Point Roberts]
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A.
The Forks
The Forks is a historic meeting place and major cultural, recreational, and commercial hub located at the junction of the Red and Assiniboine Rivers in downtown Winnipeg, Manitoba.
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B.
Bremerton
Bremerton is a waterfront city in Washington State known for its naval shipyard and ferry connection to Seattle across Puget Sound.
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C.
Forks, Washington
Forks, Washington is a small, rainy town on Washington State’s Olympic Peninsula best known as the primary real-world setting of the Twilight book and film series.
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D.
Point Molate
Point Molate is a historic waterfront area on the San Pablo Bay in Richmond, California, known for its former naval fuel depot, scenic shoreline, and ongoing redevelopment and conservation efforts.
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E.
Port Lions
Port Lions is a small Alutiiq community and fishing village located on Kodiak Island in Alaska.
- 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: Point Roberts Target entity description: Point Roberts is a small, geographically isolated U.S. community located on a peninsula south of Vancouver, British Columbia, that is accessible by land only through Canada.
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A.
The Forks
The Forks is a historic meeting place and major cultural, recreational, and commercial hub located at the junction of the Red and Assiniboine Rivers in downtown Winnipeg, Manitoba.
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B.
Bremerton
Bremerton is a waterfront city in Washington State known for its naval shipyard and ferry connection to Seattle across Puget Sound.
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C.
Forks, Washington
Forks, Washington is a small, rainy town on Washington State’s Olympic Peninsula best known as the primary real-world setting of the Twilight book and film series.
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D.
Point Molate
Point Molate is a historic waterfront area on the San Pablo Bay in Richmond, California, known for its former naval fuel depot, scenic shoreline, and ongoing redevelopment and conservation efforts.
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E.
Port Lions
Port Lions is a small Alutiiq community and fishing village located on Kodiak Island in Alaska.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
census-designated place
ⓘ
exclave of the United States ⓘ unincorporated community ⓘ |
| accessibleByLandOnlyThrough | Canada ⓘ |
| areaCode | 360 ⓘ |
| borderWith |
Canada
ⓘ
Delta, British Columbia ⓘ |
| connectedByRoadTo |
Tsawwassen
ⓘ
surface form:
Tsawwassen, British Columbia
|
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| facesBodyOfWater |
Georgia Strait
ⓘ
surface form:
Strait of Georgia
|
| governedAs | part of unincorporated Whatcom County ⓘ |
| governedBy | Whatcom County Council ⓘ |
| hasBorderCrossing |
Point Roberts–Boundary Bay Border Crossing
ⓘ
surface form:
Point Roberts–Boundary Bay border crossing
|
| hasCharacteristic |
border community
ⓘ
geographically isolated from the rest of the United States mainland by land ⓘ small population ⓘ |
| hasClimate | oceanic climate ⓘ |
| hasEmergencyServicesProvidedBy | Whatcom County Sheriff’s Office ⓘ |
| hasFacility |
U.S. Border Patrol station
ⓘ
elementary school ⓘ fire station ⓘ marina ⓘ post office ⓘ |
| hasGeographicFeature | peninsula ⓘ |
| hasPrimaryEconomicActivity |
service industry
ⓘ
tourism ⓘ |
| hasSchoolDistrict | Blaine School District ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Pacific Northwest
ⓘ
Washington ⓘ
surface form:
Washington (state)
Whatcom County NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Boundary Bay
ⓘ
Gulf Islands ⓘ |
| locatedNorthOf | Puget Sound ⓘ |
| locatedOn |
Tsawwassen
ⓘ
surface form:
Tsawwassen Peninsula
|
| locatedSouthOf |
Vancouver
ⓘ
surface form:
Vancouver, British Columbia
|
| locatedWestOf | Blaine, Washington ⓘ |
| partOf |
Salish Sea
ⓘ
surface form:
Salish Sea region
|
| popularFor |
marinas and boating
ⓘ
vacation homes ⓘ |
| postalCode | 98281 ⓘ |
| requiresInternationalBorderCrossingFor | driving to the rest of Washington State ⓘ |
| requiresTransitThroughForeignCountryFor | most ground transportation ⓘ |
| subjectTo |
United States federal law
ⓘ
Washington State law ⓘ Whatcom County regulations ⓘ |
| surroundedBy | water on three sides ⓘ |
| timeZone | Pacific Time Zone ⓘ |
| usesCurrency |
US dollar
ⓘ
surface form:
United States dollar
|
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: Point Roberts Description of subject: Point Roberts is a small, geographically isolated U.S. community located on a peninsula south of Vancouver, British Columbia, that is accessible by land only through Canada.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Delta, British Columbia
this entity surface form:
Point Roberts, Washington
this entity surface form:
Point Roberts, Washington
this entity surface form:
Point Roberts, Washington
this entity surface form:
Point Roberts, Washington
this entity surface form:
Point Roberts, Washington