Pier 39
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Pier 39 is a popular waterfront shopping, dining, and entertainment complex in San Francisco best known for its sea lions, bay views, and tourist attractions.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Pier 39 canonical | 11 |
| Pier 39, San Francisco | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T70670 — 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 39 Context triple: [Fisherman’s Wharf, hasPart, Pier 39]
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A.
Fisherman’s Wharf
Fisherman’s Wharf is a popular waterfront neighborhood and tourist destination in San Francisco known for its seafood restaurants, historic piers, and views of the bay and Alcatraz Island.
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B.
Paso de San Francisco
Paso de San Francisco is a high-altitude Andean mountain pass on the Argentina–Chile border, known as a key access route to the Ojos del Salado volcano and surrounding desert landscapes.
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C.
Pioneer Courthouse Square
Pioneer Courthouse Square is a central public plaza in downtown Portland, Oregon, often called the city's "living room" and known for hosting community events, gatherings, and performances.
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D.
Boston Fish Pier
Boston Fish Pier is a historic waterfront complex in Boston known as a longtime hub for the city’s commercial fishing and seafood industry.
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E.
Old Sacramento
Old Sacramento is a preserved 19th-century riverfront district in California’s capital city, known for its Gold Rush–era buildings, wooden boardwalks, and heritage attractions.
- 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 39 Target entity description: Pier 39 is a popular waterfront shopping, dining, and entertainment complex in San Francisco best known for its sea lions, bay views, and tourist attractions.
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A.
Fisherman’s Wharf
Fisherman’s Wharf is a popular waterfront neighborhood and tourist destination in San Francisco known for its seafood restaurants, historic piers, and views of the bay and Alcatraz Island.
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B.
Paso de San Francisco
Paso de San Francisco is a high-altitude Andean mountain pass on the Argentina–Chile border, known as a key access route to the Ojos del Salado volcano and surrounding desert landscapes.
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C.
Pioneer Courthouse Square
Pioneer Courthouse Square is a central public plaza in downtown Portland, Oregon, often called the city's "living room" and known for hosting community events, gatherings, and performances.
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D.
Boston Fish Pier
Boston Fish Pier is a historic waterfront complex in Boston known as a longtime hub for the city’s commercial fishing and seafood industry.
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E.
Old Sacramento
Old Sacramento is a preserved 19th-century riverfront district in California’s capital city, known for its Gold Rush–era buildings, wooden boardwalks, and heritage attractions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
shopping and entertainment complex
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tourist attraction ⓘ waterfront development ⓘ |
| accessibleBy |
Muni F-Market & Wharves line
ⓘ
historic streetcars ⓘ |
| adjacentTo |
Fisherman’s Wharf
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surface form:
Fisherman’s Wharf area
|
| city | San Francisco ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| developer | Warren Simmons ⓘ |
| hasAttraction |
7D Experience ride
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Aquarium of the Bay ⓘ bay cruise departures ⓘ carousel ⓘ magicians and performers ⓘ street musicians ⓘ |
| hasDining |
casual eateries
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seafood restaurants ⓘ sit-down restaurants ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
arcade
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marina ⓘ restaurants ⓘ retail shops ⓘ sea lion viewing area ⓘ street performances ⓘ |
| hasParking | multi-level parking garage ⓘ |
| hasRetail |
apparel shops
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souvenir shops ⓘ specialty stores ⓘ |
| hasStructure | wooden pier ⓘ |
| hasTheme | nautical theme ⓘ |
| hasType | mixed-use complex ⓘ |
| hasViewOf |
Alcatraz Island
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Angel Island ⓘ Bay Bridge ⓘ Golden Gate Bridge ⓘ |
| knownFor |
California sea lions
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family entertainment ⓘ tourist-oriented shops ⓘ views of Alcatraz Island ⓘ views of San Francisco Bay ⓘ views of the Golden Gate Bridge ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
California, United States
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surface form:
California
San Francisco ⓘ |
| locatedInNeighborhood | Fisherman’s Wharf ⓘ |
| locatedOn | San Francisco Bay ⓘ |
| openingDate | 1978 ⓘ |
| partOf |
Port of San Francisco
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surface form:
San Francisco waterfront
|
| state |
California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
California
|
| touristVisitsPerYear | millions ⓘ |
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 39 Description of subject: Pier 39 is a popular waterfront shopping, dining, and entertainment complex in San Francisco best known for its sea lions, bay views, and tourist attractions.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Pier 39, San Francisco
this entity surface form:
Pier 39, San Francisco