M/V Columbia
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M/V Columbia is a mainline passenger and vehicle ferry that serves as one of the flagship vessels of the Alaska Marine Highway System, operating along coastal routes in Alaska and the Pacific Northwest.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| M/V Columbia canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T620411 — 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: M/V Columbia Context triple: [Alaska Marine Highway System, hasPart, M/V Columbia]
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A.
USS Providence
USS Providence was a prominent warship of the Continental Navy that served during the American Revolutionary War, participating in several key naval operations against British forces.
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B.
SS Jeremiah O’Brien
SS Jeremiah O’Brien is a preserved World War II Liberty ship now serving as a museum vessel and historic attraction in San Francisco.
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C.
USS Portsmouth
USS Portsmouth was a 19th-century United States Navy sloop-of-war notable for its service during the Mexican–American War and in the Pacific.
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D.
USS Alfred
USS Alfred was a prominent warship of the Continental Navy during the American Revolutionary War, known for serving as one of its earliest flagships.
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E.
USS Arkansas
USS Arkansas was a Wyoming-class battleship of the United States Navy that served in both World Wars before being used as a target and sunk during postwar atomic bomb tests at Bikini Atoll.
- 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: M/V Columbia Target entity description: M/V Columbia is a mainline passenger and vehicle ferry that serves as one of the flagship vessels of the Alaska Marine Highway System, operating along coastal routes in Alaska and the Pacific Northwest.
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A.
USS Providence
USS Providence was a prominent warship of the Continental Navy that served during the American Revolutionary War, participating in several key naval operations against British forces.
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B.
SS Jeremiah O’Brien
SS Jeremiah O’Brien is a preserved World War II Liberty ship now serving as a museum vessel and historic attraction in San Francisco.
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C.
USS Portsmouth
USS Portsmouth was a 19th-century United States Navy sloop-of-war notable for its service during the Mexican–American War and in the Pacific.
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D.
USS Alfred
USS Alfred was a prominent warship of the Continental Navy during the American Revolutionary War, known for serving as one of its earliest flagships.
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E.
USS Arkansas
USS Arkansas was a Wyoming-class battleship of the United States Navy that served in both World Wars before being used as a target and sunk during postwar atomic bomb tests at Bikini Atoll.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Alaska Marine Highway System vessel
ⓘ
ferry ⓘ passenger ship ⓘ roll-on/roll-off ferry ⓘ vehicle ferry ⓘ |
| capacityPassengers | approximately 600 ⓘ |
| capacityVehicles | approximately 130 ⓘ |
| countryOfRegistry |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| flag |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| hasFacility |
cafeteria
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movie lounge ⓘ observation lounge ⓘ solarium ⓘ stateroom cabins ⓘ vehicle deck ⓘ |
| homePort |
Ketchikan
ⓘ
surface form:
Ketchikan, Alaska
|
| IMONumber | 7338935 ⓘ |
| launchYear | 1973 ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Columbia Glacier ⓘ |
| operatesOn | Alaska Marine Highway mainline routes ⓘ |
| operator | Alaska Marine Highway System ⓘ |
| owner |
Alaska
ⓘ
surface form:
State of Alaska
|
| portOfCall |
Bellingham, Washington
ⓘ
Haines, Alaska ⓘ Juneau ⓘ
surface form:
Juneau, Alaska
Ketchikan ⓘ
surface form:
Ketchikan, Alaska
Petersburg, Alaska ⓘ Sitka ⓘ
surface form:
Sitka, Alaska
Skagway ⓘ
surface form:
Skagway, Alaska
Wrangell, Alaska ⓘ |
| propulsionType | diesel ⓘ |
| role |
flagship vessel
ⓘ
mainline ferry ⓘ |
| route |
Southeastern Alaska
ⓘ
surface form:
Bellingham–Southeast Alaska
Southeast Alaska coastal communities ⓘ |
| serviceArea |
Alaska
ⓘ
Inside Passage ⓘ Pacific Northwest ⓘ |
| serviceEntryYear | 1974 ⓘ |
| serviceType | passenger and vehicle transport ⓘ |
| status | in 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: M/V Columbia Description of subject: M/V Columbia is a mainline passenger and vehicle ferry that serves as one of the flagship vessels of the Alaska Marine Highway System, operating along coastal routes in Alaska and the Pacific Northwest.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.