New Denver, British Columbia
E1042763
New Denver, British Columbia is a small historic lakeside village in the West Kootenay region known for its scenic mountain setting and former Japanese Canadian internment camp site.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| New Denver, British Columbia canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13465288 — 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: New Denver, British Columbia Context triple: [Regional District of Central Kootenay, hasVillage, New Denver, British Columbia]
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Revelstoke, British Columbia
Revelstoke, British Columbia is a small mountain city in southeastern Canada known for its world-class skiing, outdoor recreation, and dramatic setting amid the Selkirk and Monashee ranges.
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B.
Duncan, British Columbia
Duncan, British Columbia is a small city on Vancouver Island known as the commercial and cultural center of the Cowichan Valley and for its strong Indigenous heritage.
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C.
Fernie, British Columbia
Fernie, British Columbia is a small mountain city in the Canadian Rockies known for its ski resort, outdoor recreation, and historic downtown.
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D.
Bennett, British Columbia
Bennett, British Columbia is a historic former gold rush settlement and railway stop in northwestern Canada, located along the route of the Klondike Gold Rush and served by the White Pass and Yukon Route railway.
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E.
Lytton, British Columbia
Lytton, British Columbia is a small village in the interior of the province known for its location at the confluence of the Fraser and Thompson Rivers and for often recording some of the highest temperatures in Canada.
- 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: New Denver, British Columbia Target entity description: New Denver, British Columbia is a small historic lakeside village in the West Kootenay region known for its scenic mountain setting and former Japanese Canadian internment camp site.
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A.
Revelstoke, British Columbia
Revelstoke, British Columbia is a small mountain city in southeastern Canada known for its world-class skiing, outdoor recreation, and dramatic setting amid the Selkirk and Monashee ranges.
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B.
Duncan, British Columbia
Duncan, British Columbia is a small city on Vancouver Island known as the commercial and cultural center of the Cowichan Valley and for its strong Indigenous heritage.
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C.
Fernie, British Columbia
Fernie, British Columbia is a small mountain city in the Canadian Rockies known for its ski resort, outdoor recreation, and historic downtown.
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D.
Bennett, British Columbia
Bennett, British Columbia is a historic former gold rush settlement and railway stop in northwestern Canada, located along the route of the Klondike Gold Rush and served by the White Pass and Yukon Route railway.
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E.
Lytton, British Columbia
Lytton, British Columbia is a small village in the interior of the province known for its location at the confluence of the Fraser and Thompson Rivers and for often recording some of the highest temperatures in Canada.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
municipality
ⓘ
village ⓘ |
| country | Canada ⓘ |
| governingBody | Village of New Denver Council NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAttraction |
Kohan Reflection Garden
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Nikkei Internment Memorial Centre NERFINISHED ⓘ Slocan Lake waterfront NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
historic village
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lakeside setting ⓘ mountain scenery ⓘ |
| hasClimate | humid continental climate ⓘ |
| hasCulturalCommunity | Japanese Canadian community ⓘ |
| hasHeritage | Japanese Canadian cultural heritage ⓘ |
| hasHeritageSite | Nikkei Internment Memorial Centre NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasHistoricSignificance | Japanese Canadian internment during World War II NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMemorial | Nikkei Internment Memorial Centre NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNearbyMountainRange |
Selkirk Mountains
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Valhalla Range NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasOfficialLanguage | English ⓘ |
| hasParkOrGarden | Kohan Reflection Garden NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPopulationScale | small community ⓘ |
| hasRecreation |
boating on Slocan Lake
ⓘ
camping ⓘ fishing ⓘ hiking ⓘ |
| hasRegionType | rural community ⓘ |
| hasSite | former Japanese Canadian internment camp ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Japanese Canadian internment history
ⓘ
access to hiking and outdoor activities ⓘ scenic mountain setting ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
British Columbia
ⓘ
Slocan Valley NERFINISHED ⓘ West Kootenay NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInProvince | British Columbia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInRegionalDistrict | Regional District of Central Kootenay NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Pacific Time Zone ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Silverton, British Columbia
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Slocan, British Columbia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOnHighway | Highway 6 (British Columbia) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOnWaterbody | Slocan Lake NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Interior of British Columbia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryEconomicActivity |
outdoor recreation
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services ⓘ tourism ⓘ |
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: New Denver, British Columbia Description of subject: New Denver, British Columbia is a small historic lakeside village in the West Kootenay region known for its scenic mountain setting and former Japanese Canadian internment camp site.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.