Salmon Bay
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Salmon Bay is a tidal inlet in Seattle that forms part of the Lake Washington Ship Canal and serves as an important waterway between freshwater lakes and Puget Sound.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Salmon Bay canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6318067 — 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: Salmon Bay Context triple: [Lake Washington Ship Canal, connects, Salmon Bay]
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A.
Salmon Bay
Salmon Bay is a scenic beach on Rottnest Island in Western Australia, known for its clear waters, white sand, and sheltered swimming and snorkeling conditions.
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B.
Bellingham Bay
Bellingham Bay is a coastal inlet of the Salish Sea in northwestern Washington State, known for its maritime industry, scenic waterfront, and role as the harbor for the city of Bellingham.
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C.
Barnes Sound
Barnes Sound is a shallow, coastal body of water in southern Florida that forms part of the greater Biscayne Bay system near the upper Florida Keys.
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D.
Resurrection Bay
Resurrection Bay is a scenic fjord on Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula known for its deep waters, rich marine wildlife, and role as the gateway to Kenai Fjords National Park.
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E.
Meredith Bay
Meredith Bay is a scenic inlet and popular recreational area on Lake Winnipesaukee in New Hampshire, known for boating, waterfront attractions, and views of the surrounding lakes region.
- 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: Salmon Bay Target entity description: Salmon Bay is a tidal inlet in Seattle that forms part of the Lake Washington Ship Canal and serves as an important waterway between freshwater lakes and Puget Sound.
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A.
Salmon Bay
Salmon Bay is a scenic beach on Rottnest Island in Western Australia, known for its clear waters, white sand, and sheltered swimming and snorkeling conditions.
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B.
Bellingham Bay
Bellingham Bay is a coastal inlet of the Salish Sea in northwestern Washington State, known for its maritime industry, scenic waterfront, and role as the harbor for the city of Bellingham.
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C.
Barnes Sound
Barnes Sound is a shallow, coastal body of water in southern Florida that forms part of the greater Biscayne Bay system near the upper Florida Keys.
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D.
Resurrection Bay
Resurrection Bay is a scenic fjord on Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula known for its deep waters, rich marine wildlife, and role as the gateway to Kenai Fjords National Park.
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E.
Meredith Bay
Meredith Bay is a scenic inlet and popular recreational area on Lake Winnipesaukee in New Hampshire, known for boating, waterfront attractions, and views of the surrounding lakes region.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bay
ⓘ
tidal inlet ⓘ |
| adjacentNeighborhood |
Ballard
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Interbay NERFINISHED ⓘ Magnolia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| city | Seattle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| connects |
Lake Union
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Puget Sound NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| crossedBy |
Ballard Bridge
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Burlington Northern Railroad Bridge NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ecologicalRole | salmon migration corridor ⓘ |
| flowsToward | Puget Sound NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLockSystem | Hiram M. Chittenden Locks NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNavigationFunction | link between inland lakes and ocean ⓘ |
| hasPortActivity |
fishing vessels
ⓘ
industrial shipping ⓘ |
| hasStructure |
Ballard Locks
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Hiram M. Chittenden Locks NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTidalInfluenceFrom | Puget Sound NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hydrologicalContext | transition zone between freshwater and marine environments ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Puget Sound region
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Seattle NERFINISHED ⓘ Washington ⓘ
surface form:
Washington State
|
| namedAfter | salmon ⓘ |
| near |
Fishermen's Terminal
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Shilshole Bay NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf |
Lake Washington Ship Canal
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Seattle waterways NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | Pacific Northwest ⓘ |
| separates |
freshwater of Lake Washington Ship Canal
ⓘ
saltwater of Puget Sound ⓘ |
| state | Washington ⓘ |
| usedFor |
commercial navigation
ⓘ
fishing ⓘ recreational boating ⓘ |
| waterSalinity | brackish ⓘ |
| waterSystem | Lake Washington Ship Canal system NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| waterwayType | tidal waterway ⓘ |
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: Salmon Bay Description of subject: Salmon Bay is a tidal inlet in Seattle that forms part of the Lake Washington Ship Canal and serves as an important waterway between freshwater lakes and Puget Sound.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.