Dunkirk, New York
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Dunkirk, New York is a small lakeside city on the shores of Lake Erie known historically for its manufacturing and maritime heritage in western New York State.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Dunkirk, New York canonical | 9 |
| City of Dunkirk, New York | 1 |
| Town of Dunkirk, New York | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T491287 — 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: Dunkirk, New York Context triple: [Western New York, hasCity, Dunkirk, New York]
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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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Centerport, New York
Centerport, New York is a hamlet and coastal community on Long Island’s North Shore known for its scenic harbor, affluent residential character, and location within the town of Huntington.
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Yorktown, New York
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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Rye, New York
Rye, New York is a small, affluent coastal city in the New York City metropolitan area known for its historic landmarks and waterfront parks along Long Island Sound.
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Hudson, New York
Hudson, New York is a small historic city on the east bank of the Hudson River known for its preserved 19th-century architecture, vibrant arts scene, and role as a cultural hub of the Hudson Valley.
- 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: Dunkirk, New York Target entity description: Dunkirk, New York is a small lakeside city on the shores of Lake Erie known historically for its manufacturing and maritime heritage in western New York State.
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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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B.
Centerport, New York
Centerport, New York is a hamlet and coastal community on Long Island’s North Shore known for its scenic harbor, affluent residential character, and location within the town of Huntington.
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C.
Yorktown, New York
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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D.
Rye, New York
Rye, New York is a small, affluent coastal city in the New York City metropolitan area known for its historic landmarks and waterfront parks along Long Island Sound.
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Hudson, New York
Hudson, New York is a small historic city on the east bank of the Hudson River known for its preserved 19th-century architecture, vibrant arts scene, and role as a cultural hub of the Hudson Valley.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
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: Dunkirk, New York Description of subject: Dunkirk, New York is a small lakeside city on the shores of Lake Erie known historically for its manufacturing and maritime heritage in western New York State.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Town of Dunkirk, New York
this entity surface form:
City of Dunkirk, New York