Philadelphia Fountain Society
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The Philadelphia Fountain Society was a 19th-century civic organization dedicated to providing public drinking fountains and improving access to clean water in Philadelphia.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Philadelphia Fountain Society canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11117343 — 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: Philadelphia Fountain Society Context triple: [Wilson Cary Swann, founded, Philadelphia Fountain Society]
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A.
Historic Philadelphia, Inc.
Historic Philadelphia, Inc. is a nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving, interpreting, and promoting key historic sites and stories in Philadelphia for education and tourism.
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B.
Philadelphia Water Department
The Philadelphia Water Department is the municipal agency responsible for providing drinking water, wastewater treatment, and stormwater management services for the city of Philadelphia.
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C.
Philadelphia Historical Commission
The Philadelphia Historical Commission is the city agency responsible for identifying, protecting, and regulating Philadelphia’s historic buildings, sites, and districts.
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D.
Fairmount Park Commission
The Fairmount Park Commission was the governing body responsible for overseeing and managing Philadelphia’s extensive Fairmount Park system and its public art and recreational facilities.
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E.
Philadelphia Academy
Philadelphia Academy was a prominent colonial-era educational institution in Philadelphia that later became part of the foundation of the University of Pennsylvania.
- 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: Philadelphia Fountain Society Target entity description: The Philadelphia Fountain Society was a 19th-century civic organization dedicated to providing public drinking fountains and improving access to clean water in Philadelphia.
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A.
Historic Philadelphia, Inc.
Historic Philadelphia, Inc. is a nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving, interpreting, and promoting key historic sites and stories in Philadelphia for education and tourism.
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B.
Philadelphia Water Department
The Philadelphia Water Department is the municipal agency responsible for providing drinking water, wastewater treatment, and stormwater management services for the city of Philadelphia.
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C.
Philadelphia Historical Commission
The Philadelphia Historical Commission is the city agency responsible for identifying, protecting, and regulating Philadelphia’s historic buildings, sites, and districts.
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D.
Fairmount Park Commission
The Fairmount Park Commission was the governing body responsible for overseeing and managing Philadelphia’s extensive Fairmount Park system and its public art and recreational facilities.
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E.
Philadelphia Academy
Philadelphia Academy was a prominent colonial-era educational institution in Philadelphia that later became part of the foundation of the University of Pennsylvania.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
civic organization
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nonprofit organization ⓘ |
| basedIn | Philadelphia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
public health
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urban infrastructure ⓘ water supply ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
access to potable water
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sanitation ⓘ urban public amenities ⓘ |
| hasActivity |
advocacy for clean drinking water
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installation of public drinking fountains ⓘ maintenance of public drinking fountains ⓘ promotion of temperance alternatives to alcohol ⓘ |
| hasImpactOn |
availability of free drinking water in Philadelphia
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public health in Philadelphia ⓘ urban landscape of Philadelphia ⓘ |
| hasLanguage | English ⓘ |
| hasMainPurpose |
improving access to clean water
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providing public drinking fountains ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
North America
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Pennsylvania ⓘ Philadelphia ⓘ |
| locatedInTimePeriod | 19th-century Philadelphia ⓘ |
| nonProfitStatus | nonprofit ⓘ |
| operatedAs | voluntary association ⓘ |
| operatedInCentury | 19th century ⓘ |
| serviceArea | City of Philadelphia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Philadelphia Fountain Society Description of subject: The Philadelphia Fountain Society was a 19th-century civic organization dedicated to providing public drinking fountains and improving access to clean water in Philadelphia.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Wilson Cary Swann