420 dinghy
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The 420 dinghy is a popular two-person sailing dinghy widely used for training and youth racing, known for its trapeze and spinnaker setup.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| 420 dinghy canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4178509 — 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: 420 dinghy Context triple: [FJ dinghy, isSimilarTo, 420 dinghy]
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A.
FJ dinghy
The FJ dinghy is a popular two-person sailing dinghy widely used for collegiate and club racing and training.
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B.
Tech Dinghy
The Tech Dinghy is a small, durable sailing dinghy designed at MIT and widely used for collegiate sailing instruction and racing.
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C.
Marble Boat
The Marble Boat is an ornate lakeside pavilion in Beijing’s Summer Palace, built to resemble a stone ship and symbolizing the Qing dynasty’s imperial grandeur.
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D.
Pontoon
Pontoon is a humorous and reflective novel by Garrison Keillor set in the fictional town of Lake Wobegon, exploring small-town life, death, and family relationships.
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E.
Sail Kampen
Sail Kampen is a major Dutch maritime festival featuring historic sailing ships, nautical demonstrations, and cultural activities along the IJssel River in the city of Kampen.
- 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: 420 dinghy Target entity description: The 420 dinghy is a popular two-person sailing dinghy widely used for training and youth racing, known for its trapeze and spinnaker setup.
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A.
FJ dinghy
The FJ dinghy is a popular two-person sailing dinghy widely used for collegiate and club racing and training.
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B.
Tech Dinghy
The Tech Dinghy is a small, durable sailing dinghy designed at MIT and widely used for collegiate sailing instruction and racing.
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C.
Marble Boat
The Marble Boat is an ornate lakeside pavilion in Beijing’s Summer Palace, built to resemble a stone ship and symbolizing the Qing dynasty’s imperial grandeur.
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D.
Pontoon
Pontoon is a humorous and reflective novel by Garrison Keillor set in the fictional town of Lake Wobegon, exploring small-town life, death, and family relationships.
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E.
Sail Kampen
Sail Kampen is a major Dutch maritime festival featuring historic sailing ships, nautical demonstrations, and cultural activities along the IJssel River in the city of Kampen.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
one-design class
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sailing dinghy ⓘ two-person dinghy ⓘ |
| beam_ft | 5.35 ⓘ |
| beam_m | 1.63 ⓘ |
| construction | fiberglass ⓘ |
| crew | 2 ⓘ |
| crewEquipment |
single trapeze
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symmetric spinnaker ⓘ |
| crewPosition | helm and crew ⓘ |
| designedFor | planing ⓘ |
| designedForSkillLevel | intermediate sailors ⓘ |
| features |
adjustable rig controls
ⓘ
spinnaker pole ⓘ |
| governingBody | International 420 Class Association ⓘ |
| hasOneDesignRules | yes ⓘ |
| hasSpinnaker | yes ⓘ |
| hasTrapeze | yes ⓘ |
| hullLength_ft | 13.78 ⓘ |
| hullLength_m | 4.20 ⓘ |
| hullType | monohull ⓘ |
| hullWeight_kg | 80 ⓘ |
| hullWeight_lb | 176 ⓘ |
| isPopularIn |
Asia
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Europe ⓘ North America ⓘ |
| isYouthPathwayClassFor | 470 dinghy ⓘ |
| jibArea_m2 | 2.8 ⓘ |
| keelType | centerboard ⓘ |
| mainsailArea_m2 | 7.45 ⓘ |
| powerSource | wind ⓘ |
| primaryUse |
training
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youth racing ⓘ |
| recognizedBy | World Sailing ⓘ |
| rigType | Bermuda rig ⓘ |
| rudderType | transom-hung rudder ⓘ |
| sailNumberPrefix | 420 ⓘ |
| sailPlan | mainsail and jib with symmetric spinnaker ⓘ |
| spinnakerArea_m2 | 9.0 ⓘ |
| suitableFor |
college sailing (training)
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high school sailing ⓘ |
| typicalCrewAge | youth ⓘ |
| usedBy |
sailing schools
ⓘ
yacht clubs ⓘ |
| usedFor |
fleet racing
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match racing (training) ⓘ team racing ⓘ |
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: 420 dinghy Description of subject: The 420 dinghy is a popular two-person sailing dinghy widely used for training and youth racing, known for its trapeze and spinnaker setup.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.