Pier 51 (Seattle)
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Pier 51 (Seattle) is a waterfront pier on Elliott Bay that has historically served as a key transportation and ferry terminal site in downtown Seattle.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Pier 51 (Seattle) canonical | 1 |
| overlooks Elliott Bay | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8927939 — 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: Pier 51 (Seattle) Context triple: [Piers 46–70 (Seattle), hasPart, Pier 51 (Seattle)]
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A.
Pier 50 (Seattle)
Pier 50 (Seattle) is a passenger-only ferry terminal on Seattle’s central waterfront that serves as a key hub for King County Water Taxi and other commuter ferry services.
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B.
Pier 49 (Seattle)
Pier 49 is one of the numbered waterfront piers along Seattle’s central shoreline, forming part of the city’s historic and commercial harbor area.
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C.
Pier 46 (Seattle)
Pier 46 in Seattle is a waterfront cargo and shipping pier that forms part of the city’s central industrial and port facilities along Elliott Bay.
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D.
Pier 47 (Seattle)
Pier 47 (Seattle) is one of the central waterfront piers in Seattle, Washington, used primarily for maritime and industrial purposes along Elliott Bay.
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E.
Central Waterfront (Seattle)
Central Waterfront (Seattle) is a prominent stretch of Seattle’s downtown shoreline featuring piers, parks, attractions, and ferry terminals along Elliott Bay.
- 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: Pier 51 (Seattle) Target entity description: Pier 51 (Seattle) is a waterfront pier on Elliott Bay that has historically served as a key transportation and ferry terminal site in downtown Seattle.
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A.
Pier 50 (Seattle)
Pier 50 (Seattle) is a passenger-only ferry terminal on Seattle’s central waterfront that serves as a key hub for King County Water Taxi and other commuter ferry services.
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B.
Pier 49 (Seattle)
Pier 49 is one of the numbered waterfront piers along Seattle’s central shoreline, forming part of the city’s historic and commercial harbor area.
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C.
Pier 46 (Seattle)
Pier 46 in Seattle is a waterfront cargo and shipping pier that forms part of the city’s central industrial and port facilities along Elliott Bay.
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D.
Pier 47 (Seattle)
Pier 47 (Seattle) is one of the central waterfront piers in Seattle, Washington, used primarily for maritime and industrial purposes along Elliott Bay.
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E.
Central Waterfront (Seattle)
Central Waterfront (Seattle) is a prominent stretch of Seattle’s downtown shoreline featuring piers, parks, attractions, and ferry terminals along Elliott Bay.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ferry terminal
ⓘ
pier ⓘ transportation facility ⓘ |
| adjacentTo | Alaskan Way NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Washington State Department of Transportation
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Washington State Ferries NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCoordinateLocation | Seattle waterfront on Elliott Bay NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
dock for ferries
ⓘ
marine terminal ⓘ |
| hasHistoricalUse |
ferry terminal
ⓘ
transportation hub ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
King County
ⓘ
surface form:
King County, Washington
Seattle, Washington, United States ⓘ
surface form:
Seattle, Washington
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
Washington ⓘ
surface form:
Washington (state)
|
| locatedInNeighborhood | downtown Seattle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOnBodyOfWater | Elliott Bay NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| near |
Colman Dock (Pier 52)
NERFINISHED
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Seattle Ferry Terminal area ⓘ |
| ownedBy | State of Washington NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf |
Elliott Bay waterfront infrastructure
ⓘ
Seattle waterfront NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedFor |
commuter transportation
ⓘ
passenger ferry service ⓘ regional ferry connections ⓘ vehicle ferry service ⓘ |
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: Pier 51 (Seattle) Description of subject: Pier 51 (Seattle) is a waterfront pier on Elliott Bay that has historically served as a key transportation and ferry terminal site in downtown Seattle.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
overlooks Elliott Bay