Sault Ste. Marie Canal Administration Building
E171966
The Sault Ste. Marie Canal Administration Building is a historic government facility in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, that once housed the administrative offices overseeing operations of the Sault Ste. Marie Canal.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sault Ste. Marie Canal Administration Building canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1477019 — 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: Sault Ste. Marie Canal Administration Building Context triple: [Sault Ste. Marie Canal, hasStructure, Sault Ste. Marie Canal Administration Building]
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A.
Sault Ste. Marie Canal Stores Building
The Sault Ste. Marie Canal Stores Building is a historic structure in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, that once served as a key storage and support facility for operations along the Sault Ste. Marie Canal.
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B.
Sault Ste. Marie Canal Superintendent’s Residence
The Sault Ste. Marie Canal Superintendent’s Residence is a historic house in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, built for the canal’s chief administrator and recognized today as a heritage building associated with Canada’s canal-era infrastructure.
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C.
Sault Ste. Marie Canal Powerhouse
The Sault Ste. Marie Canal Powerhouse is a historic hydroelectric generating station that supplied power for the operation of the Sault Ste. Marie Canal in Ontario, Canada.
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D.
Lake Superior Maritime Visitor Center
The Lake Superior Maritime Visitor Center is a museum and interpretive center in Duluth, Minnesota, that showcases the history, technology, and culture of Great Lakes shipping and maritime activity.
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E.
Smiths Falls Locks
Smiths Falls Locks are a historic set of canal locks in Smiths Falls, Ontario, that form a key part of the Rideau Canal’s navigation and heritage infrastructure.
- 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: Sault Ste. Marie Canal Administration Building Target entity description: The Sault Ste. Marie Canal Administration Building is a historic government facility in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, that once housed the administrative offices overseeing operations of the Sault Ste. Marie Canal.
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A.
Sault Ste. Marie Canal Stores Building
The Sault Ste. Marie Canal Stores Building is a historic structure in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, that once served as a key storage and support facility for operations along the Sault Ste. Marie Canal.
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B.
Sault Ste. Marie Canal Superintendent’s Residence
The Sault Ste. Marie Canal Superintendent’s Residence is a historic house in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, built for the canal’s chief administrator and recognized today as a heritage building associated with Canada’s canal-era infrastructure.
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C.
Sault Ste. Marie Canal Powerhouse
The Sault Ste. Marie Canal Powerhouse is a historic hydroelectric generating station that supplied power for the operation of the Sault Ste. Marie Canal in Ontario, Canada.
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D.
Lake Superior Maritime Visitor Center
The Lake Superior Maritime Visitor Center is a museum and interpretive center in Duluth, Minnesota, that showcases the history, technology, and culture of Great Lakes shipping and maritime activity.
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E.
Smiths Falls Locks
Smiths Falls Locks are a historic set of canal locks in Smiths Falls, Ontario, that form a key part of the Rideau Canal’s navigation and heritage infrastructure.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
administration building
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government building ⓘ historic building ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | late 19th-century institutional architecture ⓘ |
| category |
buildings and structures in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario
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canal-related buildings in Canada ⓘ federal government buildings in Canada ⓘ |
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| country | Canada ⓘ |
| function | administrative offices for Sault Ste. Marie Canal operations ⓘ |
| hasCulturalSignificance | associated with development of transportation on the Great Lakes ⓘ |
| heritageDesignation | historic site ⓘ |
| heritageStatus |
National Historic Site of Canada
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surface form:
National Historic Site of Canada (as part of canal complex)
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| locatedIn |
Canada
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Ontario ⓘ Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada ⓘ
surface form:
Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario
|
| locatedInTimeZone | Eastern Time Zone ⓘ |
| locatedOnWaterway | Sault Ste. Marie Canal ⓘ |
| material | masonry ⓘ |
| operator | Parks Canada ⓘ |
| owner |
Canadian federal government (Ottawa)
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surface form:
Government of Canada
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| partOf |
Sault Ste. Marie Canal
ⓘ
surface form:
Sault Ste. Marie Canal National Historic Site
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| situatedNear |
Sault Ste. Marie Canal
ⓘ
surface form:
Sault Ste. Marie Canal locks
St. Marys River ⓘ |
| usedFor |
canal administration
ⓘ
offices ⓘ |
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: Sault Ste. Marie Canal Administration Building Description of subject: The Sault Ste. Marie Canal Administration Building is a historic government facility in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, that once housed the administrative offices overseeing operations of the Sault Ste. Marie Canal.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.