Stony Brook
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Stony Brook is a stream in New Jersey that flows through the Princeton Battlefield area and played a notable role in the terrain of the Revolutionary War battle fought there.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Stony Brook canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T203691 — 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: Stony Brook Context triple: [Princeton Battlefield State Park, hasPart, Stony Brook]
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A.
Stony Brook
Stony Brook is a small urban stream in Boston, Massachusetts, that runs through several neighborhoods and is largely culverted and integrated into the city’s Emerald Necklace park system.
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B.
East River
The East River is a tidal strait in New York City that separates Manhattan from Brooklyn and Queens and serves as a major waterway spanned by several iconic bridges.
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C.
Jamaica Bay
Jamaica Bay is a large, wildlife-rich estuary on the southern shore of Long Island in New York City, known for its marshes, bird habitats, and inclusion within the Gateway National Recreation Area.
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D.
Long Island Sound
Long Island Sound is a tidal estuary of the Atlantic Ocean located between Long Island, New York, and the coast of Connecticut, known for its maritime commerce, recreation, and diverse coastal ecosystems.
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E.
New York Harbor estuarine system
The New York Harbor estuarine system is a complex network of tidal waterways and wetlands at the meeting of the Hudson River and the Atlantic Ocean, forming one of the world’s largest natural harbors and a critical ecological and shipping hub for the New York metropolitan area.
- 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: Stony Brook Target entity description: Stony Brook is a stream in New Jersey that flows through the Princeton Battlefield area and played a notable role in the terrain of the Revolutionary War battle fought there.
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A.
Stony Brook
Stony Brook is a small urban stream in Boston, Massachusetts, that runs through several neighborhoods and is largely culverted and integrated into the city’s Emerald Necklace park system.
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B.
East River
The East River is a tidal strait in New York City that separates Manhattan from Brooklyn and Queens and serves as a major waterway spanned by several iconic bridges.
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C.
Jamaica Bay
Jamaica Bay is a large, wildlife-rich estuary on the southern shore of Long Island in New York City, known for its marshes, bird habitats, and inclusion within the Gateway National Recreation Area.
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D.
Long Island Sound
Long Island Sound is a tidal estuary of the Atlantic Ocean located between Long Island, New York, and the coast of Connecticut, known for its maritime commerce, recreation, and diverse coastal ecosystems.
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E.
New York Harbor estuarine system
The New York Harbor estuarine system is a complex network of tidal waterways and wetlands at the meeting of the Hudson River and the Atlantic Ocean, forming one of the world’s largest natural harbors and a critical ecological and shipping hub for the New York metropolitan area.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (16)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
stream
ⓘ
watercourse ⓘ |
| associatedWithEvent | Battle of Princeton ⓘ |
| associatedWithPeriod | American Revolutionary War ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| flowsThrough |
Princeton Battlefield State Park
ⓘ
surface form:
Princeton Battlefield
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| hasHydrologicalType | brook ⓘ |
| hasNameOrigin | named for its stony or rocky bed ⓘ |
| hasRole | terrain feature in the Battle of Princeton ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Mercer County, New Jersey
ⓘ
New Jersey, United States ⓘ
surface form:
New Jersey
Princeton, New Jersey, United States ⓘ
surface form:
Princeton, New Jersey area
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| near |
Princeton Battlefield State Park
ⓘ
Princeton, New Jersey, United States ⓘ
surface form:
Princeton, New Jersey
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| partOf |
Delaware River
ⓘ
surface form:
Delaware River watershed
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| usedAs | natural defensive feature during the Battle of Princeton ⓘ |
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: Stony Brook Description of subject: Stony Brook is a stream in New Jersey that flows through the Princeton Battlefield area and played a notable role in the terrain of the Revolutionary War battle fought there.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.