Island of Montreal
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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.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Island of Montreal canonical | 99 |
| Montreal Island | 6 |
| Île de Montréal | 2 |
| Hochelaga Archipelago | 1 |
| Island of Montreal and Île Jésus | 1 |
| L’Île-Bizard | 1 |
| Montreal Island West Island | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T128722 — 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: Island of Montreal Context triple: [Montreal, locatedOn, Island of Montreal]
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A.
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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B.
Toronto Islands
The Toronto Islands are a chain of small, car-free islands in Lake Ontario that form a popular recreational park area just offshore from downtown Toronto.
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C.
Beaver Island
Beaver Island is the largest island in Lake Michigan, known for its remote natural beauty, small year-round community, and recreational opportunities like boating, fishing, and hiking.
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D.
Quebec City
Quebec City is the historic capital of the Canadian province of Quebec, renowned for its well-preserved fortified old town and rich French colonial heritage.
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E.
Desecheo Island
Desecheo Island is a small, uninhabited Caribbean island and wildlife refuge off the west coast of Puerto Rico, known for its rugged terrain, seabird colonies, and surrounding dive sites.
- 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: Island of Montreal Target entity description: 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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A.
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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B.
Toronto Islands
The Toronto Islands are a chain of small, car-free islands in Lake Ontario that form a popular recreational park area just offshore from downtown Toronto.
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C.
Beaver Island
Beaver Island is the largest island in Lake Michigan, known for its remote natural beauty, small year-round community, and recreational opportunities like boating, fishing, and hiking.
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D.
Quebec City
Quebec City is the historic capital of the Canadian province of Quebec, renowned for its well-preserved fortified old town and rich French colonial heritage.
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E.
Desecheo Island
Desecheo Island is a small, uninhabited Caribbean island and wildlife refuge off the west coast of Puerto Rico, known for its rugged terrain, seabird colonies, and surrounding dive sites.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (57)
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: Island of Montreal Description of subject: 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.
Referenced by (111)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Hochelaga Archipelago
this entity surface form:
Île de Montréal
this entity surface form:
Montreal Island
subject surface form:
Pointe-Claire
this entity surface form:
Montreal Island
subject surface form:
La Ronde
this entity surface form:
Île de Montréal
subject surface form:
Maisonneuve neighbourhood
subject surface form:
Shaar Hashomayim Cemetery
this entity surface form:
Montreal Island