Yorktown, New York
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Yorktown, New York is a suburban town in the Hudson Valley region north of New York City, known for its residential communities, parks, and historic sites.
All labels observed (8)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Yorktown, New York canonical | 25 |
| Yorktown Heights, New York | 10 |
| Yorktown | 5 |
| Yorktown Heights | 2 |
| Yorktown Heights, New York, United States | 2 |
| Yorktown, Westchester County, New York | 2 |
| Town of Yorktown, New York | 1 |
| Yorktown, United States | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T254530 — 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: Yorktown, New York Context triple: [Westchester County, New York, contains, Yorktown, New York]
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Mount Vernon, New York
Mount Vernon, New York is a densely populated inner-ring suburb of New York City located just north of the Bronx in southern Westchester County.
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Melville, New York
Melville, New York is a suburban hamlet on Long Island known for its corporate offices, light industry, and residential communities within the town of Huntington.
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Crown Point, New York
Crown Point, New York is a small town on the western shore of Lake Champlain known for its historic Revolutionary War-era forts and scenic Adirondack setting.
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Tarrytown, New York
Tarrytown, New York is a historic Hudson River village in Westchester County known for its picturesque setting, 19th-century architecture, and ties to Washington Irving’s “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.”
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Poughkeepsie, New York
Poughkeepsie, New York is a historic city in the Hudson Valley that serves as the county seat of Dutchess County and a regional center for education, culture, and transportation.
- 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: Yorktown, New York Target entity description: Yorktown, New York is a suburban town in the Hudson Valley region north of New York City, known for its residential communities, parks, and historic sites.
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Mount Vernon, New York
Mount Vernon, New York is a densely populated inner-ring suburb of New York City located just north of the Bronx in southern Westchester County.
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B.
Melville, New York
Melville, New York is a suburban hamlet on Long Island known for its corporate offices, light industry, and residential communities within the town of Huntington.
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C.
Crown Point, New York
Crown Point, New York is a small town on the western shore of Lake Champlain known for its historic Revolutionary War-era forts and scenic Adirondack setting.
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Tarrytown, New York
Tarrytown, New York is a historic Hudson River village in Westchester County known for its picturesque setting, 19th-century architecture, and ties to Washington Irving’s “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.”
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Poughkeepsie, New York
Poughkeepsie, New York is a historic city in the Hudson Valley that serves as the county seat of Dutchess County and a regional center for education, culture, and transportation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Yorktown, New York Description of subject: Yorktown, New York is a suburban town in the Hudson Valley region north of New York City, known for its residential communities, parks, and historic sites.
Referenced by (48)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Yorktown Heights
this entity surface form:
Yorktown Heights
this entity surface form:
Yorktown Heights, New York
this entity surface form:
Yorktown Heights, New York, United States
this entity surface form:
Yorktown
this entity surface form:
Yorktown, Westchester County, New York
this entity surface form:
Yorktown
this entity surface form:
Yorktown Heights, New York
this entity surface form:
Yorktown, Westchester County, New York
this entity surface form:
Yorktown
this entity surface form:
Yorktown Heights, New York
subject surface form:
Mount Pleasant, New York
this entity surface form:
Yorktown Heights, New York
this entity surface form:
Yorktown Heights, New York
this entity surface form:
Yorktown Heights, New York
this entity surface form:
Yorktown Heights, New York
this entity surface form:
Yorktown, United States
this entity surface form:
Yorktown Heights, New York
this entity surface form:
Yorktown Heights, New York
this entity surface form:
Yorktown Heights, New York
this entity surface form:
Yorktown Heights, New York, United States
this entity surface form:
Town of Yorktown, New York