Lyman, Washington
E321333
Lyman, Washington is a small rural community in Skagit County known for its location along the Skagit River in northwestern Washington State.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lyman, Washington canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2499943 — 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: Lyman, Washington Context triple: [Mount Vernon–Anacortes metropolitan area, hasUnincorporatedCommunity, Lyman, Washington]
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A.
Yelm, Washington
Yelm, Washington is a small city in western Washington State known as a growing bedroom community near Joint Base Lewis-McChord and the Nisqually River.
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B.
Freeland, Washington
Freeland, Washington is an unincorporated community and census-designated place located on Whidbey Island in Island County, known for its waterfront setting and small-town character.
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C.
Shelton, Washington
Shelton, Washington is a small city in the Pacific Northwest known as the primary urban center of Mason County and a gateway to the Olympic Peninsula.
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D.
Mattawa, Washington
Mattawa, Washington is a small agricultural city in central Washington State known for its orchards, vineyards, and proximity to the Columbia River.
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E.
Elma, Washington
Elma, Washington is a small city in western Washington State known as a gateway community between the Olympia area and the Pacific Coast.
- 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: Lyman, Washington Target entity description: Lyman, Washington is a small rural community in Skagit County known for its location along the Skagit River in northwestern Washington State.
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A.
Yelm, Washington
Yelm, Washington is a small city in western Washington State known as a growing bedroom community near Joint Base Lewis-McChord and the Nisqually River.
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B.
Freeland, Washington
Freeland, Washington is an unincorporated community and census-designated place located on Whidbey Island in Island County, known for its waterfront setting and small-town character.
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C.
Shelton, Washington
Shelton, Washington is a small city in the Pacific Northwest known as the primary urban center of Mason County and a gateway to the Olympic Peninsula.
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D.
Mattawa, Washington
Mattawa, Washington is a small agricultural city in central Washington State known for its orchards, vineyards, and proximity to the Columbia River.
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E.
Elma, Washington
Elma, Washington is a small city in western Washington State known as a gateway community between the Olympia area and the Pacific Coast.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
municipality
ⓘ
town ⓘ |
| administrativeDivision | Skagit County NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| countrySubdivision | Washington ⓘ |
| geographicFeature | river valley settlement ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
riverfront community
ⓘ
rural community ⓘ small town ⓘ |
| hasEconomicContext | rural economy ⓘ |
| hasEnvironment | rural ⓘ |
| hasLandUse |
agricultural
ⓘ
residential ⓘ |
| hasNearbyWaterBody | Skagit River ⓘ |
| hasSetting | small rural town along a river ⓘ |
| isInRegion |
Skagit County
ⓘ
surface form:
Skagit County region
western Washington ⓘ
surface form:
Western Washington
|
| isSituatedAlong |
Skagit Valley
ⓘ
surface form:
Skagit River valley
|
| locatedIn |
Pacific Northwest
ⓘ
Skagit County, Washington NERFINISHED ⓘ Washington ⓘ
surface form:
Washington (state)
Northwestern Washington ⓘ
surface form:
northwestern Washington
|
| locatedInCountry | United States of America ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Pacific Time Zone ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Skagit River ⓘ |
| partOf |
Pacific Northwest
ⓘ
surface form:
United States Pacific Northwest region
Washington State, United States ⓘ
surface form:
state of Washington
|
| region | northwestern Washington State ⓘ |
| state | Washington ⓘ |
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: Lyman, Washington Description of subject: Lyman, Washington is a small rural community in Skagit County known for its location along the Skagit River in northwestern Washington State.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.