Detroit Harbor
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Detroit Harbor is a sheltered natural harbor and ferry port on Washington Island in Door County, Wisconsin, serving as a key access point between the island and mainland.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Detroit Harbor canonical | 7 |
| Detroit Harbor waters | 1 |
| Detroit Harbor waterway system | 1 |
| Detroit Harbor, Washington Island | 1 |
| Detroit Harbor, Wisconsin | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T609289 — 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: Detroit Harbor Context triple: [Washington Island, hasFeature, Detroit Harbor]
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A.
Calumet Harbor
Calumet Harbor is a commercial and industrial harbor on the southwest shore of Lake Michigan that serves as a key shipping and transportation hub for the Chicago region.
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B.
Lake Calumet
Lake Calumet is an industrially impacted lake on Chicago’s far South Side that has historically served as a major hub for shipping, manufacturing, and waste disposal.
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C.
Lake St. Clair
Lake St. Clair is a freshwater lake in the Great Lakes region between Michigan and Ontario, serving as a key link in the St. Lawrence Seaway between Lake Huron and Lake Erie.
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D.
Detroit River
The Detroit River is a strait of the Great Lakes system that forms part of the border between the United States and Canada, connecting Lake St. Clair to Lake Erie and serving as a major shipping and industrial waterway.
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E.
Port of Marquette
The Port of Marquette is a commercial harbor on Lake Superior that serves as a key shipping point for bulk commodities in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.
- 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: Detroit Harbor Target entity description: Detroit Harbor is a sheltered natural harbor and ferry port on Washington Island in Door County, Wisconsin, serving as a key access point between the island and mainland.
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A.
Calumet Harbor
Calumet Harbor is a commercial and industrial harbor on the southwest shore of Lake Michigan that serves as a key shipping and transportation hub for the Chicago region.
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B.
Lake Calumet
Lake Calumet is an industrially impacted lake on Chicago’s far South Side that has historically served as a major hub for shipping, manufacturing, and waste disposal.
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C.
Lake St. Clair
Lake St. Clair is a freshwater lake in the Great Lakes region between Michigan and Ontario, serving as a key link in the St. Lawrence Seaway between Lake Huron and Lake Erie.
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D.
Detroit River
The Detroit River is a strait of the Great Lakes system that forms part of the border between the United States and Canada, connecting Lake St. Clair to Lake Erie and serving as a major shipping and industrial waterway.
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E.
Port of Marquette
The Port of Marquette is a commercial harbor on Lake Superior that serves as a key shipping point for bulk commodities in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ferry port
ⓘ
harbor ⓘ natural harbor ⓘ |
| connectsTo |
Door Peninsula region
ⓘ
surface form:
Door Peninsula
Northport Pier ⓘ Washington Island ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| hasEconomicRole | primary access point to Washington Island ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
docks
ⓘ
navigational channels ⓘ piers ⓘ sheltered waters ⓘ |
| hasPart |
East Channel
ⓘ
West Channel ⓘ |
| hasPortFacility |
Detroit Harbor ferry dock
ⓘ
surface form:
Washington Island Ferry Line terminal
|
| hasSettlementOnShore |
Detroit Harbor
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Detroit Harbor, Wisconsin
|
| hasTransportationRole | key ferry link between Washington Island and mainland Wisconsin ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Door County
ⓘ
Washington Island ⓘ Wisconsin ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeEntity |
Town of Washington, New York
ⓘ
surface form:
Town of Washington
|
| locatedInBodyOfWater | Lake Michigan ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion |
Door Peninsula region
ⓘ
Northeastern Wisconsin ⓘ |
| operator | Washington Island Ferry Line ⓘ |
| partOf |
Great Lakes waterway
ⓘ
surface form:
Great Lakes waterway system
|
| usedFor |
commercial shipping
ⓘ
ferry transportation ⓘ recreational boating ⓘ |
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: Detroit Harbor Description of subject: Detroit Harbor is a sheltered natural harbor and ferry port on Washington Island in Door County, Wisconsin, serving as a key access point between the island and mainland.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Detroit Harbor, Washington Island
this entity surface form:
Detroit Harbor, Wisconsin
this entity surface form:
Detroit Harbor waters
this entity surface form:
Detroit Harbor waterway system