Puget Sound
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Puget Sound is a complex system of interconnected marine waterways and basins in northwestern Washington State, known for its deep fjord-like inlets, rich marine ecosystems, and role as a major hub for shipping and coastal communities.
All labels observed (26)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T306991 — 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: Puget Sound Context triple: [Puget Sound region, hasBodyOfWater, Puget Sound]
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Georgia Strait
Georgia Strait is a major coastal waterway in British Columbia that separates Vancouver Island from the mainland and forms part of the Salish Sea.
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Elliott Bay
Elliott Bay is a large inlet of Puget Sound along the Seattle waterfront, known for its busy port, ferry traffic, and iconic views of the city skyline and surrounding mountains.
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Juan de Fuca Plate
The Juan de Fuca Plate is a small oceanic tectonic plate off the Pacific Northwest coast whose subduction beneath North America drives significant volcanic and seismic activity in the region.
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Puget Sound region
The Puget Sound region is a coastal metropolitan and ecological area in northwestern Washington State centered around the Puget Sound inlet, including cities like Seattle and Tacoma and known for its maritime economy, technology industry, and scenic waterways.
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E.
Gulf of Alaska
The Gulf of Alaska is a large, subarctic ocean basin off the southern coast of Alaska known for its harsh weather, rich marine ecosystems, and significant fisheries.
- 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: Puget Sound Target entity description: Puget Sound is a complex system of interconnected marine waterways and basins in northwestern Washington State, known for its deep fjord-like inlets, rich marine ecosystems, and role as a major hub for shipping and coastal communities.
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A.
Georgia Strait
Georgia Strait is a major coastal waterway in British Columbia that separates Vancouver Island from the mainland and forms part of the Salish Sea.
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B.
Elliott Bay
Elliott Bay is a large inlet of Puget Sound along the Seattle waterfront, known for its busy port, ferry traffic, and iconic views of the city skyline and surrounding mountains.
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C.
Juan de Fuca Plate
The Juan de Fuca Plate is a small oceanic tectonic plate off the Pacific Northwest coast whose subduction beneath North America drives significant volcanic and seismic activity in the region.
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D.
Puget Sound region
The Puget Sound region is a coastal metropolitan and ecological area in northwestern Washington State centered around the Puget Sound inlet, including cities like Seattle and Tacoma and known for its maritime economy, technology industry, and scenic waterways.
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E.
Gulf of Alaska
The Gulf of Alaska is a large, subarctic ocean basin off the southern coast of Alaska known for its harsh weather, rich marine ecosystems, and significant fisheries.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (63)
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: Puget Sound Description of subject: Puget Sound is a complex system of interconnected marine waterways and basins in northwestern Washington State, known for its deep fjord-like inlets, rich marine ecosystems, and role as a major hub for shipping and coastal communities.
Referenced by (352)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Pacific Ocean via Puget Sound
this entity surface form:
North Bay, Puget Sound
this entity surface form:
Puget Sound inland waterway system
subject surface form:
Langley, Washington
subject surface form:
Freeland, Washington
this entity surface form:
Central Puget Sound
this entity surface form:
Whidbey Basin
this entity surface form:
Puget Sound watershed