Madeline Island Ferry
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Madeline Island Ferry is a passenger and vehicle ferry service that connects Madeline Island to the mainland across Lake Superior in northern Wisconsin.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Madeline Island Ferry canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6486618 — 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: Madeline Island Ferry Context triple: [Madeline Island, hasTransportation, Madeline Island Ferry]
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A.
Washington Island Ferry Line
Washington Island Ferry Line is a ferry service that transports passengers, vehicles, and goods between Washington Island and the Door Peninsula in Wisconsin.
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B.
Cape May–Lewes Ferry
The Cape May–Lewes Ferry is a passenger and vehicle ferry service that crosses the Delaware Bay, connecting Cape May, New Jersey, with Lewes, Delaware.
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C.
Toronto Island Ferry
The Toronto Island Ferry is a passenger boat service that transports people between downtown Toronto and the Toronto Islands, offering both essential transit and scenic views of the city skyline.
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D.
Dartmouth Higher Ferry
Dartmouth Higher Ferry is a vehicular and passenger ferry service that carries traffic across the River Dart between Dartmouth and Kingswear in Devon, England.
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E.
Isle Royale Queen IV ferry (seasonal)
The Isle Royale Queen IV is a seasonal passenger ferry that transports visitors to and from Isle Royale National Park on Lake Superior.
- 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: Madeline Island Ferry Target entity description: Madeline Island Ferry is a passenger and vehicle ferry service that connects Madeline Island to the mainland across Lake Superior in northern Wisconsin.
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A.
Washington Island Ferry Line
Washington Island Ferry Line is a ferry service that transports passengers, vehicles, and goods between Washington Island and the Door Peninsula in Wisconsin.
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B.
Cape May–Lewes Ferry
The Cape May–Lewes Ferry is a passenger and vehicle ferry service that crosses the Delaware Bay, connecting Cape May, New Jersey, with Lewes, Delaware.
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C.
Toronto Island Ferry
The Toronto Island Ferry is a passenger boat service that transports people between downtown Toronto and the Toronto Islands, offering both essential transit and scenic views of the city skyline.
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D.
Dartmouth Higher Ferry
Dartmouth Higher Ferry is a vehicular and passenger ferry service that carries traffic across the River Dart between Dartmouth and Kingswear in Devon, England.
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E.
Isle Royale Queen IV ferry (seasonal)
The Isle Royale Queen IV is a seasonal passenger ferry that transports visitors to and from Isle Royale National Park on Lake Superior.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ferry service
ⓘ
transport company ⓘ |
| bodyOfWater | Lake Superior NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| connects |
Madeline Island
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
mainland Wisconsin ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| crosses | Chequamegon Bay NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRouteType | short-distance ferry route ⓘ |
| hasSeasonalVariation | yes ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Apostle Islands region NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| operatesIn | Chequamegon Bay area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| operatesOn | Lake Superior NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryFunction | island-mainland connection ⓘ |
| providesService |
passenger transport
ⓘ
vehicle transport ⓘ |
| region | northern Wisconsin ⓘ |
| replacesDuringIceSeason | Madeline Island Ice Road NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| servesDestination |
Bayfield Peninsula
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Madeline Island NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| state | Wisconsin ⓘ |
| supports |
Madeline Island community access
ⓘ
regional tourism economy ⓘ |
| terminusOnIsland | La Pointe, Wisconsin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| terminusOnMainland | Bayfield, Wisconsin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| transports |
bicycles
ⓘ
cars ⓘ pedestrians ⓘ trucks ⓘ |
| usedFor |
local transportation
ⓘ
tourism ⓘ |
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: Madeline Island Ferry Description of subject: Madeline Island Ferry is a passenger and vehicle ferry service that connects Madeline Island to the mainland across Lake Superior in northern Wisconsin.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.