Savoonga, Alaska
E584047
Savoonga, Alaska is a remote, predominantly Siberian Yupik village located on St. Lawrence Island in the Bering Sea.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Savoonga | 1 |
| Savoonga, Alaska canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6012572 — 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: Savoonga, Alaska Context triple: [Nome Census Area, contains, Savoonga, Alaska]
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A.
Angoon, Alaska
Angoon, Alaska is a small, predominantly Tlingit community located on Admiralty Island in Southeast Alaska, known for its rich Indigenous culture and remote, coastal setting.
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B.
Kotzebue, Alaska
Kotzebue, Alaska is a remote city in northwestern Alaska located above the Arctic Circle, serving as a regional hub for Inupiat communities on the Baldwin Peninsula along the Chukchi Sea.
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C.
Unalakleet, Alaska
Unalakleet, Alaska is a remote Inupiat village and key Iditarod Trail checkpoint on the western coast of Alaska at the mouth of the Unalakleet River on Norton Sound.
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D.
Metlakatla, Alaska
Metlakatla, Alaska is a predominantly Tsimshian community on Annette Island and the only Native reservation in the state of Alaska.
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E.
Seldovia, Alaska
Seldovia, Alaska is a small, remote coastal city on the Kenai Peninsula known for its fishing, scenic harbor, and access via boat and small aircraft rather than road.
- 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: Savoonga, Alaska Target entity description: Savoonga, Alaska is a remote, predominantly Siberian Yupik village located on St. Lawrence Island in the Bering Sea.
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A.
Angoon, Alaska
Angoon, Alaska is a small, predominantly Tlingit community located on Admiralty Island in Southeast Alaska, known for its rich Indigenous culture and remote, coastal setting.
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B.
Kotzebue, Alaska
Kotzebue, Alaska is a remote city in northwestern Alaska located above the Arctic Circle, serving as a regional hub for Inupiat communities on the Baldwin Peninsula along the Chukchi Sea.
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C.
Unalakleet, Alaska
Unalakleet, Alaska is a remote Inupiat village and key Iditarod Trail checkpoint on the western coast of Alaska at the mouth of the Unalakleet River on Norton Sound.
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D.
Metlakatla, Alaska
Metlakatla, Alaska is a predominantly Tsimshian community on Annette Island and the only Native reservation in the state of Alaska.
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E.
Seldovia, Alaska
Seldovia, Alaska is a small, remote coastal city on the Kenai Peninsula known for its fishing, scenic harbor, and access via boat and small aircraft rather than road.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
census-designated place
ⓘ
city ⓘ village ⓘ |
| borough | Nome Census Area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| climate | subarctic climate ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| economyBasedOn |
fishing
ⓘ
subsistence hunting ⓘ walrus hunting ⓘ |
| elevation | approximately 13 feet above sea level ⓘ |
| hasAirport | Savoonga Airport NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasIndigenousName | Sivunga NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPostalCode | 99769 ⓘ |
| hasSchoolDistrict | Bering Strait School District NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| incorporatedAsCity | 1969 ⓘ |
| indigenousPeople | Siberian Yupik NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isRemote | true ⓘ |
| knownAs | Walrus Capital of the World NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedCloseTo | Russia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Bering Sea NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Alaska Time Zone NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOn | St. Lawrence Island NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOnCoastOf | Bering Sea NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedWestOf | mainland Alaska NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| population | approximately 700 people ⓘ |
| predominantEthnicGroup | Siberian Yupik NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryLanguage |
English
ⓘ
Siberian Yupik language NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| state | Alaska ⓘ |
| transportAccess | air only most of the year ⓘ |
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: Savoonga, Alaska Description of subject: Savoonga, Alaska is a remote, predominantly Siberian Yupik village located on St. Lawrence Island in the Bering Sea.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Savoonga