Death’s Door
E371372
Death’s Door is the ominous-sounding English name for Porte des Morts Passage, a notoriously treacherous strait off the coast of Door County, Wisconsin, known for its dangerous waters and shipwrecks.
All labels observed (8)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Death’s Door canonical | 5 |
| Death’s Door passage | 4 |
| "Door of the Dead" | 1 |
| Death's Door | 1 |
| Death’s Door (English) | 1 |
| Death’s Door (Porte des Morts) passage | 1 |
| Death’s Door Passage | 1 |
| Door of the Dead | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3603402 — 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: Death’s Door Context triple: [Porte des Morts Passage, nameMeaning, Death’s Door]
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A.
Souls of the Departed
"Souls of the Departed" is a rock song by Bruce Springsteen, featured on his 1992 album *Lucky Town*, that reflects on death, loss, and the human cost of violence and war.
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B.
Mask of Sorrow
Mask of Sorrow is a monumental sculpture in Magadan, Russia, commemorating the victims of Stalinist political repression and the Gulag labor camps.
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C.
The Dirge
The Dirge is a somber, introspective section of Leonard Bernstein’s Symphony No. 2 “The Age of Anxiety,” reflecting the work’s themes of spiritual crisis and postwar disillusionment.
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D.
Dead Woman’s Pass
Dead Woman’s Pass is a high-altitude mountain pass on the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu, renowned for being its most challenging and iconic ascent.
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E.
The Door
"The Door" is a pivotal and emotionally charged episode of Game of Thrones renowned for revealing the origin of Hodor's name and fate.
- 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: Death’s Door Target entity description: Death’s Door is the ominous-sounding English name for Porte des Morts Passage, a notoriously treacherous strait off the coast of Door County, Wisconsin, known for its dangerous waters and shipwrecks.
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A.
Souls of the Departed
"Souls of the Departed" is a rock song by Bruce Springsteen, featured on his 1992 album *Lucky Town*, that reflects on death, loss, and the human cost of violence and war.
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B.
Mask of Sorrow
Mask of Sorrow is a monumental sculpture in Magadan, Russia, commemorating the victims of Stalinist political repression and the Gulag labor camps.
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C.
The Dirge
The Dirge is a somber, introspective section of Leonard Bernstein’s Symphony No. 2 “The Age of Anxiety,” reflecting the work’s themes of spiritual crisis and postwar disillusionment.
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D.
Dead Woman’s Pass
Dead Woman’s Pass is a high-altitude mountain pass on the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu, renowned for being its most challenging and iconic ascent.
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E.
The Door
"The Door" is a pivotal and emotionally charged episode of Game of Thrones renowned for revealing the origin of Hodor's name and fate.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
geographic feature
ⓘ
marine passage ⓘ strait ⓘ |
| connectsBodyOfWater |
Green Bay
ⓘ
Lake Michigan ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| etymology | name refers to the danger and loss of life associated with the passage ⓘ |
| hasHistoricalSignificance |
influenced maritime routes in the Great Lakes
ⓘ
site of numerous historical shipwrecks ⓘ |
| hasNameInLanguage |
Death’s Door
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Death’s Door (English)
Porte des Morts Passage ⓘ
surface form:
Porte des Morts Passage (French)
|
| hasNativeName | Porte des Morts Passage ⓘ |
| hasReputation | one of the most dangerous passages on the Great Lakes ⓘ |
| hazard |
rapidly changing weather
ⓘ
shallow rocky areas ⓘ strong, conflicting currents ⓘ |
| influencedNameOf |
Door County
ⓘ
surface form:
Door County, Wisconsin
|
| knownFor |
dangerous navigation conditions
ⓘ
frequent storms ⓘ shipwrecks ⓘ strong currents ⓘ treacherous shoals and reefs ⓘ |
| languageOfName |
English
ⓘ
French ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Door County
ⓘ
surface form:
Door County, Wisconsin
Lake Michigan region ⓘ
surface form:
Lake Michigan–Green Bay region
Wisconsin ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Death’s Door self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| near |
Door Peninsula region
ⓘ
surface form:
Door Peninsula
Apostle Islands ⓘ
surface form:
Potawatomi Islands
Washington Island, Wisconsin ⓘ |
| partOf |
Great Lakes–St. Lawrence system
ⓘ
surface form:
Great Lakes waterway system
|
| region | Midwestern United States ⓘ |
| separates |
Door Peninsula region
ⓘ
surface form:
Door Peninsula
Washington Island ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
local legends and folklore
ⓘ
maritime safety studies ⓘ |
| tourismAttractionType |
maritime history tourism
ⓘ
shipwreck diving ⓘ |
| usedFor |
commercial shipping
ⓘ
recreational boating ⓘ |
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: Death’s Door Description of subject: Death’s Door is the ominous-sounding English name for Porte des Morts Passage, a notoriously treacherous strait off the coast of Door County, Wisconsin, known for its dangerous waters and shipwrecks.
Referenced by (15)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Death’s Door Passage
this entity surface form:
Death’s Door passage
this entity surface form:
Death’s Door passage
this entity surface form:
Death’s Door (Porte des Morts) passage
this entity surface form:
Death’s Door passage
subject surface form:
Porte des Morts
this entity surface form:
Death's Door
subject surface form:
Porte des Morts
this entity surface form:
Door of the Dead
this entity surface form:
Death’s Door (English)
subject surface form:
Door County, Wisconsin
subject surface form:
Porte des Morts Passage
this entity surface form:
"Door of the Dead"
subject surface form:
Porte des Morts Passage
this entity surface form:
Death’s Door passage