Port of Waukegan
E358843
The Port of Waukegan is a commercial and recreational harbor on Lake Michigan that serves as a regional hub for shipping, boating, and waterfront industry in northeastern Illinois.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Waukegan Port District | 2 |
| Port of Waukegan canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3443753 — 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: Port of Waukegan Context triple: [Waukegan, Illinois, hasPort, Port of Waukegan]
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A.
Port of Chicago
The Port of Chicago is a major commercial shipping and transportation hub on Lake Michigan that connects the Great Lakes to inland river and rail networks in the United States.
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B.
Port of Lorain
The Port of Lorain is a commercial and industrial shipping hub on Lake Erie that serves as a key maritime gateway for Lorain, Ohio.
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C.
Port of Green Bay
The Port of Green Bay is a commercial shipping hub on the Fox River and southern end of Green Bay that supports regional industry and trade in northeastern Wisconsin.
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D.
Port of Toledo
The Port of Toledo is a commercial and industrial maritime facility in Toledo, Ohio, serving as a key shipping hub on the Great Lakes–St. Lawrence Seaway system.
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E.
Wilmette Harbor
Wilmette Harbor is a small recreational marina on Lake Michigan known for boating, sailing, and access to the nearby Baha'i House of Worship in Wilmette, Illinois.
- 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: Port of Waukegan Target entity description: The Port of Waukegan is a commercial and recreational harbor on Lake Michigan that serves as a regional hub for shipping, boating, and waterfront industry in northeastern Illinois.
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A.
Port of Chicago
The Port of Chicago is a major commercial shipping and transportation hub on Lake Michigan that connects the Great Lakes to inland river and rail networks in the United States.
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B.
Port of Lorain
The Port of Lorain is a commercial and industrial shipping hub on Lake Erie that serves as a key maritime gateway for Lorain, Ohio.
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C.
Port of Green Bay
The Port of Green Bay is a commercial shipping hub on the Fox River and southern end of Green Bay that supports regional industry and trade in northeastern Wisconsin.
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D.
Port of Toledo
The Port of Toledo is a commercial and industrial maritime facility in Toledo, Ohio, serving as a key shipping hub on the Great Lakes–St. Lawrence Seaway system.
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E.
Wilmette Harbor
Wilmette Harbor is a small recreational marina on Lake Michigan known for boating, sailing, and access to the nearby Baha'i House of Worship in Wilmette, Illinois.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
commercial harbor
ⓘ
marina ⓘ port authority ⓘ recreational harbor ⓘ |
| adjacentTo |
downtown Waukegan
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industrial districts of Waukegan ⓘ |
| connectsTo |
Great Lakes shipping routes
ⓘ
inland transportation networks ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| governingBody |
Port of Waukegan
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Waukegan Port District
|
| hasFunction |
cargo handling
ⓘ
commercial shipping ⓘ fishing access ⓘ marina services ⓘ public waterfront access ⓘ recreational boating ⓘ sailing and yachting ⓘ storage and warehousing ⓘ waterfront industry support ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Waukegan Harbor
ⓘ
boat launch ramps ⓘ boat slips ⓘ breakwaters ⓘ commercial docks ⓘ fuel docks ⓘ industrial waterfront areas ⓘ navigation channels ⓘ public piers ⓘ recreational marina ⓘ warehouse facilities ⓘ |
| industry |
marine services
ⓘ
recreation ⓘ shipping ⓘ tourism ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Lake County, Illinois
ⓘ
Waukegan, Illinois ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Central Time Zone ⓘ |
| locatedOnBodyOfWater | Lake Michigan ⓘ |
| operator |
Port of Waukegan
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Waukegan Port District
|
| regionServed |
Chicago metropolitan area
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northeastern Illinois ⓘ |
| state | Illinois ⓘ |
| usedFor |
fishing charters
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pleasure boating ⓘ regional cargo distribution ⓘ sailing regattas ⓘ waterfront events ⓘ |
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: Port of Waukegan Description of subject: The Port of Waukegan is a commercial and recreational harbor on Lake Michigan that serves as a regional hub for shipping, boating, and waterfront industry in northeastern Illinois.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Waukegan Port District
this entity surface form:
Waukegan Port District