NYC Ferry
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NYC Ferry is a public ferry system in New York City that provides commuter and recreational boat service across several routes connecting waterfront neighborhoods in the five boroughs.
All labels observed (28)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T23902 — 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: NYC Ferry Context triple: [East River, hasFerryService, NYC Ferry]
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A.
AirTrain JFK
AirTrain JFK is an elevated people mover system in New York City that links John F. Kennedy International Airport with nearby subway, commuter rail, and parking facilities.
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B.
Roosevelt Island Tramway
The Roosevelt Island Tramway is an aerial cable car system in New York City that connects Roosevelt Island to Manhattan, offering both public transit and scenic views of the skyline.
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C.
New York City Subway
The New York City Subway is one of the world’s largest and busiest rapid transit systems, serving the five boroughs of New York City with extensive 24/7 underground and elevated rail service.
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D.
Portland Streetcar
Portland Streetcar is a modern urban streetcar transit system serving central Portland, Oregon, connecting key neighborhoods, employment centers, and educational institutions.
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E.
Muni
Muni is San Francisco’s primary public transit agency, operating buses, light rail, historic streetcars, and the city’s iconic cable cars.
- 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: NYC Ferry Target entity description: NYC Ferry is a public ferry system in New York City that provides commuter and recreational boat service across several routes connecting waterfront neighborhoods in the five boroughs.
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A.
AirTrain JFK
AirTrain JFK is an elevated people mover system in New York City that links John F. Kennedy International Airport with nearby subway, commuter rail, and parking facilities.
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B.
Roosevelt Island Tramway
The Roosevelt Island Tramway is an aerial cable car system in New York City that connects Roosevelt Island to Manhattan, offering both public transit and scenic views of the skyline.
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C.
New York City Subway
The New York City Subway is one of the world’s largest and busiest rapid transit systems, serving the five boroughs of New York City with extensive 24/7 underground and elevated rail service.
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D.
Portland Streetcar
Portland Streetcar is a modern urban streetcar transit system serving central Portland, Oregon, connecting key neighborhoods, employment centers, and educational institutions.
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E.
Muni
Muni is San Francisco’s primary public transit agency, operating buses, light rail, historic streetcars, and the city’s iconic cable cars.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
passenger ferry service
ⓘ
public ferry system ⓘ public transportation service ⓘ |
| connects |
Bronx waterfront
ⓘ
Brooklyn waterfront ⓘ Manhattan waterfront ⓘ Queens waterfront ⓘ Staten Island ⓘ
surface form:
Staten Island waterfront
waterfront neighborhoods ⓘ |
| fareIntegratedWith | NYC Ferry mobile app ⓘ |
| hasOperatorContractStart | 2017 ⓘ |
| hasRoute |
Astoria route
ⓘ
South Brooklyn route ⓘ
surface form:
Coney Island route
NYC Ferry self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
East River route
Governors Island seasonal route ⓘ Lower East Side route ⓘ Rockaway route ⓘ Soundview route ⓘ South Brooklyn route ⓘ Staten Island route ⓘ |
| hasTerminal |
Astoria Landing
ⓘ
DUMBO ⓘ
surface form:
DUMBO/Fulton Ferry Landing
East 34th Street Ferry Landing ⓘ Rockaway Landing ⓘ Soundview Landing ⓘ Wall Street Pier 11 ⓘ |
| hasTicketingMethod |
mobile ticketing
ⓘ
paper tickets ⓘ |
| hasVesselType | high-speed catamaran ⓘ |
| inception | 2017 ⓘ |
| locatedIn | New York City ⓘ |
| modeOfTransport | boat ⓘ |
| operatedBy | Hornblower Cruises ⓘ |
| operatedFor |
New York City Economic Development Corporation
ⓘ
surface form:
NYCEDC
New York City Economic Development Corporation ⓘ |
| ownedBy |
New York City
ⓘ
surface form:
City of New York
|
| partOf | New York City public transportation network ⓘ |
| primaryUse | commuter transport ⓘ |
| secondaryUse | recreational transport ⓘ |
| serves |
Brooklyn
ⓘ
Manhattan ⓘ New York City ⓘ Queens ⓘ Staten Island ⓘ The Bronx ⓘ |
| startDate | 2017-05-01 ⓘ |
| subsidizedBy |
New York City
ⓘ
surface form:
City of New York
|
| website | https://www.ferry.nyc/ ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: NYC Ferry Description of subject: NYC Ferry is a public ferry system in New York City that provides commuter and recreational boat service across several routes connecting waterfront neighborhoods in the five boroughs.
Referenced by (73)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
NYC Ferry system
this entity surface form:
Ferry to DUMBO
this entity surface form:
NYC Ferry Soundview route
this entity surface form:
New York City ferry network
this entity surface form:
NYC Ferry network
this entity surface form:
East River ferry network
this entity surface form:
NYC Ferry network
this entity surface form:
New York City ferry system
this entity surface form:
NYC Ferry system
this entity surface form:
New York Harbor ferry network
this entity surface form:
NYC Ferry Astoria route (nearby)
this entity surface form:
NYC Ferry (nearby via East River)
this entity surface form:
NYC Ferry routes
subject surface form:
Long Island City station
this entity surface form:
East River ferries (historically)