Point Defiance Ferry Terminal
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Point Defiance Ferry Terminal is a passenger and vehicle ferry terminal in Tacoma, Washington, serving as a key link across Puget Sound to Vashon Island.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Point Defiance Ferry Terminal canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10104662 — 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: Point Defiance Ferry Terminal Context triple: [Tahlequah Ferry Terminal, connectsTo, Point Defiance Ferry Terminal]
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A.
Downtown Ferry Terminal
Downtown Ferry Terminal is Auckland’s main waterfront hub for commuter and tourist ferry services across the Waitematā Harbour and surrounding areas.
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B.
Tahlequah Ferry Terminal
Tahlequah Ferry Terminal is a small Washington State Ferries dock on the southern tip of Vashon Island that provides vehicle and passenger service across Puget Sound.
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C.
Stearns Wharf
Stearns Wharf is a historic wooden pier and popular waterfront destination in Santa Barbara, California, featuring shops, restaurants, and scenic coastal views.
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D.
Pier 66
Pier 66 is a major Seattle waterfront complex that serves as a cruise ship terminal, event venue, and public recreation area along Elliott Bay.
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E.
Pier 66
Pier 66 is a Hudson River waterfront pier on Manhattan’s West Side known for its recreational boating, public access, and views of the New York City skyline.
- 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: Point Defiance Ferry Terminal Target entity description: Point Defiance Ferry Terminal is a passenger and vehicle ferry terminal in Tacoma, Washington, serving as a key link across Puget Sound to Vashon Island.
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A.
Downtown Ferry Terminal
Downtown Ferry Terminal is Auckland’s main waterfront hub for commuter and tourist ferry services across the Waitematā Harbour and surrounding areas.
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B.
Tahlequah Ferry Terminal
Tahlequah Ferry Terminal is a small Washington State Ferries dock on the southern tip of Vashon Island that provides vehicle and passenger service across Puget Sound.
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C.
Stearns Wharf
Stearns Wharf is a historic wooden pier and popular waterfront destination in Santa Barbara, California, featuring shops, restaurants, and scenic coastal views.
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D.
Pier 66
Pier 66 is a major Seattle waterfront complex that serves as a cruise ship terminal, event venue, and public recreation area along Elliott Bay.
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E.
Pier 66
Pier 66 is a Hudson River waterfront pier on Manhattan’s West Side known for its recreational boating, public access, and views of the New York City skyline.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ferry terminal
ⓘ
transportation facility ⓘ |
| adjacentTo | Point Defiance Park entrance ⓘ |
| bodyOfWater | Dalco Passage NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| category |
Buildings and structures in Tacoma, Washington
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Ferry terminals in Washington (state) ⓘ Transportation in Tacoma, Washington ⓘ |
| connectedByRoad |
North 51st Street
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Pearl Street NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| connectedTo | Tahlequah Ferry Terminal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| hasCoordinateSystem | geographic coordinates ⓘ |
| hasFacility |
ferry dock
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passenger waiting area ⓘ vehicle holding lanes ⓘ |
| hasPublicTransitConnection | local bus services in Tacoma ⓘ |
| hasServiceType |
passenger ferry
ⓘ
vehicle ferry ⓘ |
| isPartOfNetwork | Puget Sound ferry network NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Pierce County, Washington
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Point Defiance neighborhood NERFINISHED ⓘ Puget Sound region NERFINISHED ⓘ Tacoma, Washington NERFINISHED ⓘ Washington ⓘ
surface form:
Washington (state)
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| locatedNear | Point Defiance Park NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOnWaterbody | Puget Sound NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| near | Ruston, Washington NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| operator | Washington State Ferries NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ownedBy | Washington State Department of Transportation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Washington State Ferries system NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| providesAccessTo |
Tahlequah, Washington
NERFINISHED
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Vashon Island NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| regionServed |
Puget Sound
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Vashon Island community ⓘ |
| serves |
passengers
ⓘ
vehicles ⓘ |
| servesRoute | Point Defiance–Tahlequah ferry route NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| servesRouteTo | Vashon Island NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| transportMode | ferry ⓘ |
| usedFor |
commuter travel
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tourist travel ⓘ |
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: Point Defiance Ferry Terminal Description of subject: Point Defiance Ferry Terminal is a passenger and vehicle ferry terminal in Tacoma, Washington, serving as a key link across Puget Sound to Vashon Island.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.