Anticosti Island
E159300
Anticosti Island is a large, sparsely populated island in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence known for its rugged coastline, rich wildlife, and significant fossil deposits.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Anticosti Island canonical | 3 |
| Île d’Anticosti | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1281597 — 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: Anticosti Island Context triple: [Saint Lawrence River, hasIsland, Anticosti Island]
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A.
Cape Breton Island
Cape Breton Island is a large, culturally rich island in northeastern Nova Scotia, Canada, known for its rugged coastline, Celtic heritage, and the scenic Cabot Trail.
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B.
Island of Montreal
The Island of Montreal is a large, densely populated island in southwestern Quebec that hosts the city of Montreal and several surrounding municipalities in the Saint Lawrence River.
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C.
Grande Île
Grande Île is the historic center of Strasbourg, France, renowned for its medieval architecture, canals, and the Gothic Strasbourg Cathedral.
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D.
Île Sainte-Marie
Île Sainte-Marie is a narrow tropical island off Madagascar’s east coast, historically known as a pirate haven and now a popular destination for its beaches, whale watching, and coral reefs.
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E.
Île d’Orléans
Île d’Orléans is a historic and largely rural island near Quebec City in Canada, renowned for its well-preserved traditional villages, agricultural heritage, and scenic landscapes.
- 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: Anticosti Island Target entity description: Anticosti Island is a large, sparsely populated island in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence known for its rugged coastline, rich wildlife, and significant fossil deposits.
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A.
Cape Breton Island
Cape Breton Island is a large, culturally rich island in northeastern Nova Scotia, Canada, known for its rugged coastline, Celtic heritage, and the scenic Cabot Trail.
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B.
Island of Montreal
The Island of Montreal is a large, densely populated island in southwestern Quebec that hosts the city of Montreal and several surrounding municipalities in the Saint Lawrence River.
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C.
Grande Île
Grande Île is the historic center of Strasbourg, France, renowned for its medieval architecture, canals, and the Gothic Strasbourg Cathedral.
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D.
Île Sainte-Marie
Île Sainte-Marie is a narrow tropical island off Madagascar’s east coast, historically known as a pirate haven and now a popular destination for its beaches, whale watching, and coral reefs.
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E.
Île d’Orléans
Île d’Orléans is a historic and largely rural island near Quebec City in Canada, renowned for its well-preserved traditional villages, agricultural heritage, and scenic landscapes.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
island
ⓘ
landform ⓘ |
| administrativeStatus | municipality of L’Île-d’Anticosti ⓘ |
| area | about 7,900 square kilometres ⓘ |
| climate |
maritime influence
ⓘ
subarctic climate ⓘ |
| coastlineCharacteristic | rugged ⓘ |
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| country | Canada ⓘ |
| geologicalPeriod |
Ordovician Period
ⓘ
surface form:
Ordovician
Silurian ⓘ |
| geologicalSignificance | reference site for Ordovician–Silurian boundary ⓘ |
| hasCoastFeature |
numerous caves
ⓘ
rocky shores ⓘ sea cliffs ⓘ |
| hasEcosystemType |
boreal forest
ⓘ
coastal cliffs ⓘ |
| hasRiver |
Jupiter River
ⓘ
Vauréal River ⓘ |
| hasWaterfall | Vauréal Falls ⓘ |
| hasWildlife |
Atlantic salmon
ⓘ
black bear ⓘ moose ⓘ seabirds ⓘ Odocoileus virginianus ⓘ
surface form:
white-tailed deer
|
| knownFor |
Paleozoic marine fossils
ⓘ
rich wildlife ⓘ rugged coastline ⓘ significant fossil deposits ⓘ |
| languageUsed | French ⓘ |
| length | about 222 kilometres ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Gulf of St. Lawrence
ⓘ
surface form:
Gulf of Saint Lawrence
|
| locatedInAdministrativeEntity |
Côte-Nord
ⓘ
Quebec, Canada ⓘ
surface form:
Quebec
|
| locatedInBodyOfWater |
Saint Lawrence Estuary
ⓘ
surface form:
Saint Lawrence River estuary
|
| partOf | Province of Quebec ⓘ |
| population | sparsely populated ⓘ |
| populationCentre | Port-Menier ⓘ |
| primaryEconomicActivity |
forestry
ⓘ
sport hunting ⓘ tourism ⓘ |
| protectedArea | Anticosti National Park ⓘ |
| separates | Gaspé Peninsula from Labrador Peninsula ⓘ |
| sovereignState | Canada ⓘ |
| timezone | Eastern Time Zone ⓘ |
| UNESCOStatus | World Heritage Site candidate ⓘ |
| width | up to about 56 kilometres ⓘ |
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: Anticosti Island Description of subject: Anticosti Island is a large, sparsely populated island in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence known for its rugged coastline, rich wildlife, and significant fossil deposits.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Île d’Anticosti
subject surface form:
Côte-Nord