Prince William Sound
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Prince William Sound is a glacier-carved inlet on the south coast of Alaska known for its rugged coastline, rich marine life, and historic Indigenous communities.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Prince William Sound canonical | 31 |
| Prince William Sound region | 9 |
| Prince William Sound Alutiiq | 1 |
| Prince William Sound shoreline | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T467807 — 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: Prince William Sound Context triple: [Alutiiq, spokenIn, Prince William Sound]
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A.
Anchorage Bay
Anchorage Bay is a coastal inlet whose name was adopted by the city of Anchorage, Alaska, reflecting its historical role as a sheltered harbor.
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B.
Cook Inlet
Cook Inlet is a large tidal estuary in south-central Alaska known for its dramatic tides, oil and gas fields, and role as a key marine waterway near Anchorage.
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C.
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.
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D.
Gastineau Channel
Gastineau Channel is a narrow tidal waterway in southeastern Alaska that separates Douglas Island from the mainland and provides the waterfront setting for the city of Juneau.
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E.
Ironbottom Sound
Ironbottom Sound is a strait in the Solomon Islands famed as a major World War II naval battleground where numerous ships and aircraft were sunk.
- 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: Prince William Sound Target entity description: Prince William Sound is a glacier-carved inlet on the south coast of Alaska known for its rugged coastline, rich marine life, and historic Indigenous communities.
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A.
Anchorage Bay
Anchorage Bay is a coastal inlet whose name was adopted by the city of Anchorage, Alaska, reflecting its historical role as a sheltered harbor.
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B.
Cook Inlet
Cook Inlet is a large tidal estuary in south-central Alaska known for its dramatic tides, oil and gas fields, and role as a key marine waterway near Anchorage.
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C.
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.
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D.
Gastineau Channel
Gastineau Channel is a narrow tidal waterway in southeastern Alaska that separates Douglas Island from the mainland and provides the waterfront setting for the city of Juneau.
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E.
Ironbottom Sound
Ironbottom Sound is a strait in the Solomon Islands famed as a major World War II naval battleground where numerous ships and aircraft were sunk.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Prince William Sound Description of subject: Prince William Sound is a glacier-carved inlet on the south coast of Alaska known for its rugged coastline, rich marine life, and historic Indigenous communities.
Referenced by (42)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Prince William Sound region
subject surface form:
Cordova, Alaska
subject surface form:
Cordova, Alaska
this entity surface form:
Prince William Sound region
this entity surface form:
Prince William Sound region
this entity surface form:
Prince William Sound shoreline
this entity surface form:
Prince William Sound region
this entity surface form:
Prince William Sound region
this entity surface form:
Prince William Sound region
this entity surface form:
Prince William Sound region
this entity surface form:
Prince William Sound Alutiiq
subject surface form:
Whittier, Alaska
subject surface form:
Whittier, Alaska
this entity surface form:
Prince William Sound region
subject surface form:
Southern Alaska