Cape Ann
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Cape Ann is a rocky peninsula on the northeastern coast of Massachusetts known for its historic fishing communities, maritime heritage, and scenic New England coastline.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cape Ann canonical | 32 |
| Cape Ann coastline | 2 |
| Cape Ann, Massachusetts Bay Colony | 2 |
| Cape Ann peninsula | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T38777 — 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: Cape Ann Context triple: [Massachusetts Bay, borderedBy, Cape Ann]
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A.
Nahant
Nahant is a small coastal town in Massachusetts known for its rocky shoreline and peninsula extending into the Atlantic Ocean.
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B.
Provincetown
Provincetown is a historic coastal resort town at the tip of Cape Cod in Massachusetts, known for its vibrant arts scene, LGBTQ+ community, and scenic beaches.
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C.
Yarmouth
Yarmouth is a coastal town on Cape Cod in Massachusetts known for its beaches, historic villages, and tourism.
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D.
Eastham
Eastham is a coastal town on outer Cape Cod in Massachusetts known for its beaches, salt marshes, and access to the Cape Cod National Seashore.
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E.
Plymouth, Massachusetts
Plymouth, Massachusetts is a historic coastal town best known as the landing site of the Pilgrims in 1620 and often called "America’s Hometown."
- 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: Cape Ann Target entity description: Cape Ann is a rocky peninsula on the northeastern coast of Massachusetts known for its historic fishing communities, maritime heritage, and scenic New England coastline.
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A.
Nahant
Nahant is a small coastal town in Massachusetts known for its rocky shoreline and peninsula extending into the Atlantic Ocean.
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B.
Provincetown
Provincetown is a historic coastal resort town at the tip of Cape Cod in Massachusetts, known for its vibrant arts scene, LGBTQ+ community, and scenic beaches.
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C.
Yarmouth
Yarmouth is a coastal town on Cape Cod in Massachusetts known for its beaches, historic villages, and tourism.
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D.
Eastham
Eastham is a coastal town on outer Cape Cod in Massachusetts known for its beaches, salt marshes, and access to the Cape Cod National Seashore.
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E.
Plymouth, Massachusetts
Plymouth, Massachusetts is a historic coastal town best known as the landing site of the Pilgrims in 1620 and often called "America’s Hometown."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Cape Ann Description of subject: Cape Ann is a rocky peninsula on the northeastern coast of Massachusetts known for its historic fishing communities, maritime heritage, and scenic New England coastline.
Referenced by (37)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Rockport, Massachusetts
this entity surface form:
Cape Ann peninsula
subject surface form:
Eastern Massachusetts
this entity surface form:
Cape Ann coastline
subject surface form:
Gloucester, Massachusetts
subject surface form:
Gloucester, Massachusetts
subject surface form:
The Dry Salvages
this entity surface form:
Cape Ann, Massachusetts Bay Colony
this entity surface form:
Cape Ann coastline
subject surface form:
Thomas Gardner (Salem planter)
this entity surface form:
Cape Ann, Massachusetts Bay Colony