Raccoon Island (Quincy Bay)
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Raccoon Island (Quincy Bay) is a small coastal island located within Quincy Bay off the shore of Quincy, Massachusetts.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Raccoon Island (Quincy Bay) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11692142 — 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: Raccoon Island (Quincy Bay) Context triple: [Quincy Bay, hasIsland, Raccoon Island (Quincy Bay)]
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A.
Cockatoo Island
Cockatoo Island is a historic former shipyard and convict penal site in Sydney Harbour that is now a UNESCO World Heritage–listed cultural and tourist destination.
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B.
Rossel Island
Rossel Island is a remote, mountainous island in Papua New Guinea’s Milne Bay Province, known for its unique biodiversity and distinct local culture and language.
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C.
Peel Island
Peel Island is the former English name for Chichijima, a volcanic island in Japan’s Ogasawara (Bonin) archipelago known for its strategic Pacific location and World War II history.
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D.
Peel Island
Peel Island is a small wooded island on Coniston Water in England’s Lake District, often associated with Arthur Ransome’s “Swallows and Amazons” as the inspiration for Wild Cat Island.
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E.
Curtis Island
Curtis Island is a small, remote volcanic island in the South Pacific Ocean that forms part of New Zealand’s Kermadec Islands chain.
- 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: Raccoon Island (Quincy Bay) Target entity description: Raccoon Island (Quincy Bay) is a small coastal island located within Quincy Bay off the shore of Quincy, Massachusetts.
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A.
Cockatoo Island
Cockatoo Island is a historic former shipyard and convict penal site in Sydney Harbour that is now a UNESCO World Heritage–listed cultural and tourist destination.
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B.
Rossel Island
Rossel Island is a remote, mountainous island in Papua New Guinea’s Milne Bay Province, known for its unique biodiversity and distinct local culture and language.
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C.
Peel Island
Peel Island is the former English name for Chichijima, a volcanic island in Japan’s Ogasawara (Bonin) archipelago known for its strategic Pacific location and World War II history.
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D.
Peel Island
Peel Island is a small wooded island on Coniston Water in England’s Lake District, often associated with Arthur Ransome’s “Swallows and Amazons” as the inspiration for Wild Cat Island.
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E.
Curtis Island
Curtis Island is a small, remote volcanic island in the South Pacific Ocean that forms part of New Zealand’s Kermadec Islands chain.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
coastal island
ⓘ
island ⓘ |
| coast | Atlantic coast of the United States ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| hasCoastlineOn | Atlantic Ocean ⓘ |
| hasNameEtymology | named after raccoons ⓘ |
| hasNearbyMunicipality |
Boston, Massachusetts
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Hull, Massachusetts NERFINISHED ⓘ Weymouth, Massachusetts NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| islandType | small island ⓘ |
| isPartOfHydrologicalSystem | Atlantic Ocean watershed ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Northeastern United States
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Quincy, Massachusetts NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeTerritory | City of Quincy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInBay | Quincy Bay NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInBodyOfWater | Quincy Bay NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInCountry |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| locatedInCounty | Norfolk County, Massachusetts NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInGeographicalFeature | Boston Harbor area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | New England ⓘ |
| locatedInState | Massachusetts ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Eastern Time Zone ⓘ |
| locatedInUTCOffset | UTC−05:00 GENERATED ⓘ |
| locatedInUTCOffsetDST | UTC−04:00 GENERATED ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Germantown (Quincy, Massachusetts)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Houghs Neck NERFINISHED ⓘ Long Island (Boston Harbor) NERFINISHED ⓘ Moon Island NERFINISHED ⓘ Nut Island NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOffShoreOf | Quincy, Massachusetts NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| location | Quincy Bay NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nearestCity | Quincy, Massachusetts NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf |
Massachusetts Bay
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
New England coastal islands NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| state | Massachusetts ⓘ |
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: Raccoon Island (Quincy Bay) Description of subject: Raccoon Island (Quincy Bay) is a small coastal island located within Quincy Bay off the shore of Quincy, Massachusetts.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.