Burrard Inlet
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Burrard Inlet is a coastal fjord in British Columbia that forms Vancouver’s primary harbor and separates the city from the North Shore.
All labels observed (9)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Burrard Inlet canonical | 44 |
| Vancouver Harbour | 8 |
| Inner Burrard Inlet | 2 |
| North Shore of Burrard Inlet | 2 |
| Outer Burrard Inlet | 2 |
| Burrard Inlet shipping lane | 1 |
| Burrard Inlet watershed | 1 |
| Vancouver harbour | 1 |
| Vancouver harbour system | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1745865 — 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: Burrard Inlet Context triple: [Metro Vancouver, bordersBodyOfWater, Burrard Inlet]
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A.
Howe Sound
Howe Sound is a scenic network of fjords and islands on the British Columbia coast, known for its dramatic mountain backdrops, marine wildlife, and outdoor recreation.
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B.
Fannie Bay
Fannie Bay is a coastal suburb of Darwin in Australia's Northern Territory, known for its beach, racecourse, and historic gaol.
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C.
Lynn Canal
Lynn Canal is a long, narrow fjord in southeastern Alaska known as one of the deepest and longest fjords in North America and a key marine route for coastal communities and cruise ships.
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D.
Georgia Strait
Georgia Strait is a major coastal waterway in British Columbia that separates Vancouver Island from the mainland and forms part of the Salish Sea.
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E.
Hecate Strait
Hecate Strait is a wide, shallow, and often stormy body of water separating Haida Gwaii from the mainland coast of British Columbia on Canada’s Pacific coast.
- 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: Burrard Inlet Target entity description: Burrard Inlet is a coastal fjord in British Columbia that forms Vancouver’s primary harbor and separates the city from the North Shore.
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A.
Howe Sound
Howe Sound is a scenic network of fjords and islands on the British Columbia coast, known for its dramatic mountain backdrops, marine wildlife, and outdoor recreation.
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B.
Fannie Bay
Fannie Bay is a coastal suburb of Darwin in Australia's Northern Territory, known for its beach, racecourse, and historic gaol.
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C.
Lynn Canal
Lynn Canal is a long, narrow fjord in southeastern Alaska known as one of the deepest and longest fjords in North America and a key marine route for coastal communities and cruise ships.
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D.
Georgia Strait
Georgia Strait is a major coastal waterway in British Columbia that separates Vancouver Island from the mainland and forms part of the Salish Sea.
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E.
Hecate Strait
Hecate Strait is a wide, shallow, and often stormy body of water separating Haida Gwaii from the mainland coast of British Columbia on Canada’s Pacific coast.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Burrard Inlet Description of subject: Burrard Inlet is a coastal fjord in British Columbia that forms Vancouver’s primary harbor and separates the city from the North Shore.
Referenced by (62)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Vancouver Harbour
this entity surface form:
Burrard Inlet watershed
this entity surface form:
North Shore of Burrard Inlet
this entity surface form:
Vancouver Harbour