Duke Point ferry terminal
E751001
Duke Point ferry terminal is a major BC Ferries facility near Nanaimo on central Vancouver Island, providing vehicle and passenger service across the Strait of Georgia to the British Columbia mainland.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Duke Point ferry terminal canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8664454 — 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: Duke Point ferry terminal Context triple: [Central Vancouver Island, hasTransportInfrastructure, Duke Point ferry terminal]
-
A.
Nelly Bay Ferry Terminal
Nelly Bay Ferry Terminal is the main passenger and vehicle gateway connecting Magnetic Island with the mainland by sea.
-
B.
Fauntleroy ferry terminal
The Fauntleroy ferry terminal is a Washington State Ferries dock in West Seattle that serves as a key departure point for routes to Vashon Island and Southworth on the Kitsap Peninsula.
-
C.
Woodside ferry terminal
Woodside ferry terminal is a historic riverside passenger terminal on the Wirral side of the River Mersey, serving as one of the main departure points for Mersey Ferry services.
-
D.
Southworth ferry terminal
Southworth ferry terminal is a Washington State Ferries facility on Puget Sound that serves as a key passenger and vehicle gateway linking South Kitsap County to Vashon Island and West Seattle.
-
E.
Port Imperial ferry terminal
Port Imperial ferry terminal is a major Hudson River waterfront transit hub providing ferry service between New Jersey and Manhattan.
- 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: Duke Point ferry terminal Target entity description: Duke Point ferry terminal is a major BC Ferries facility near Nanaimo on central Vancouver Island, providing vehicle and passenger service across the Strait of Georgia to the British Columbia mainland.
-
A.
Nelly Bay Ferry Terminal
Nelly Bay Ferry Terminal is the main passenger and vehicle gateway connecting Magnetic Island with the mainland by sea.
-
B.
Fauntleroy ferry terminal
The Fauntleroy ferry terminal is a Washington State Ferries dock in West Seattle that serves as a key departure point for routes to Vashon Island and Southworth on the Kitsap Peninsula.
-
C.
Woodside ferry terminal
Woodside ferry terminal is a historic riverside passenger terminal on the Wirral side of the River Mersey, serving as one of the main departure points for Mersey Ferry services.
-
D.
Southworth ferry terminal
Southworth ferry terminal is a Washington State Ferries facility on Puget Sound that serves as a key passenger and vehicle gateway linking South Kitsap County to Vashon Island and West Seattle.
-
E.
Port Imperial ferry terminal
Port Imperial ferry terminal is a major Hudson River waterfront transit hub providing ferry service between New Jersey and Manhattan.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ferry terminal
ⓘ
transport infrastructure ⓘ |
| accessedByRoad | Duke Point Highway NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| connectsTo | Tsawwassen ferry terminal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Canada ⓘ |
| distanceTo | approximately 10 km south of downtown Nanaimo ⓘ |
| hasAccessibilityFeatures | yes ⓘ |
| hasBerths | yes ⓘ |
| hasBusConnection | yes ⓘ |
| hasCheckInLanes | yes ⓘ |
| hasCommercialVehicleFacilities | yes ⓘ |
| hasCoveredWalkways | yes ⓘ |
| hasFoodServices | yes ⓘ |
| hasParking | yes ⓘ |
| hasPassengerBoardingRamps | yes ⓘ |
| hasPassengerWaitingArea | yes ⓘ |
| hasReservationSystem | yes ⓘ |
| hasSecurityScreening | yes ⓘ |
| hasSignageLanguage |
English
ⓘ
French ⓘ |
| hasTicketOffice | yes ⓘ |
| hasVehicleLanes | yes ⓘ |
| hasVehicleLoadingRamps | yes ⓘ |
| hasWashrooms | yes ⓘ |
| isOnFerryRoute | Nanaimo–Vancouver (via Tsawwassen) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isPartOf | British Columbia coastal ferry system NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Nanaimo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInProvince | British Columbia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Duke Point industrial area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Vancouver Island NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOnBodyOfWater | Strait of Georgia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nearbyPort | Nanaimo Harbour NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| openedForService | 1997 ⓘ |
| operator | BC Ferries NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ownedBy | BC Ferry Services Inc. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | BC Ferries route network ⓘ |
| primarilyServes |
commercial trucks
ⓘ
vehicle traffic ⓘ |
| primaryRoute | Route 30 Duke Point–Tsawwassen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| purpose | to provide an alternative to Departure Bay for vehicle traffic ⓘ |
| region | Pacific Northwest ⓘ |
| servesCity | Nanaimo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| servesRegion | Central Vancouver Island NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| serviceType |
passenger ferry
ⓘ
vehicle ferry ⓘ |
| timezone | Pacific Time Zone ⓘ |
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: Duke Point ferry terminal Description of subject: Duke Point ferry terminal is a major BC Ferries facility near Nanaimo on central Vancouver Island, providing vehicle and passenger service across the Strait of Georgia to the British Columbia mainland.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.