Madawaska County, New Brunswick
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Madawaska County, New Brunswick is a largely rural county in northwestern New Brunswick known for its Acadian heritage and location along the Saint John River bordering the U.S. state of Maine.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Madawaska County, New Brunswick canonical | 8 |
| Madawaska region of New Brunswick | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1815100 — 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: Madawaska County, New Brunswick Context triple: [Clair, New Brunswick, county, Madawaska County, New Brunswick]
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A.
Charlotte County, New Brunswick
Charlotte County, New Brunswick is a coastal county in southwestern New Brunswick, Canada, known for its Bay of Fundy shoreline, fishing communities, and islands such as Campobello Island.
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B.
Clair, New Brunswick
Clair, New Brunswick is a small Canadian community in Madawaska County situated on the Saint John River directly across the border from Fort Kent, Maine.
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C.
Frontenac County
Frontenac County is a predominantly rural county in southeastern Ontario, Canada, known for its lakes, forests, and small communities surrounding the city of Kingston.
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D.
Peterborough County
Peterborough County is a predominantly rural upper-tier municipality in Ontario, Canada, known for its lakes, cottage country, and outdoor recreation in the Kawarthas region.
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E.
Clare, Nova Scotia
Clare, Nova Scotia is a coastal municipality in southwestern Nova Scotia known as a historic center of Acadian culture and French-language heritage.
- 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: Madawaska County, New Brunswick Target entity description: Madawaska County, New Brunswick is a largely rural county in northwestern New Brunswick known for its Acadian heritage and location along the Saint John River bordering the U.S. state of Maine.
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A.
Charlotte County, New Brunswick
Charlotte County, New Brunswick is a coastal county in southwestern New Brunswick, Canada, known for its Bay of Fundy shoreline, fishing communities, and islands such as Campobello Island.
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B.
Clair, New Brunswick
Clair, New Brunswick is a small Canadian community in Madawaska County situated on the Saint John River directly across the border from Fort Kent, Maine.
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C.
Frontenac County
Frontenac County is a predominantly rural county in southeastern Ontario, Canada, known for its lakes, forests, and small communities surrounding the city of Kingston.
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D.
Peterborough County
Peterborough County is a predominantly rural upper-tier municipality in Ontario, Canada, known for its lakes, cottage country, and outdoor recreation in the Kawarthas region.
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E.
Clare, Nova Scotia
Clare, Nova Scotia is a coastal municipality in southwestern Nova Scotia known as a historic center of Acadian culture and French-language heritage.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
administrative division
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county ⓘ |
| borderCrossingRole | Canada–United States border region ⓘ |
| borders |
Maine
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Saint John River ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| borderType | international border ⓘ |
| characteristic | largely rural ⓘ |
| country | Canada ⓘ |
| hasBorderWith | Aroostook County, Maine ⓘ |
| hasCulturalGroup | Acadians ⓘ |
| hasCulturalRegion | Madawaska region ⓘ |
| hasEconomicActivity |
agriculture
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cross-border trade ⓘ forestry ⓘ |
| hasEthnicCommunity |
Acadian community
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Francophone community ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
river valley landscape
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rural communities ⓘ |
| hasHeritage | Acadian heritage ⓘ |
| hasOfficialLanguage | English ⓘ |
| hasWidelySpokenLanguage | French ⓘ |
| locatedIn | New Brunswick ⓘ |
| locatedInCountrySubdivision | northern New Brunswick ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | northwestern New Brunswick ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Saint John River ⓘ |
| partOf | Atlantic Canada ⓘ |
| subdivisionOf |
New Brunswick, Canada
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surface form:
Province of New Brunswick
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| timeZone | Atlantic Time Zone ⓘ |
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: Madawaska County, New Brunswick Description of subject: Madawaska County, New Brunswick is a largely rural county in northwestern New Brunswick known for its Acadian heritage and location along the Saint John River bordering the U.S. state of Maine.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Madawaska region of New Brunswick
Van Buren–Saint-Léonard Border Crossing
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locatedInAdministrativeTerritory
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Madawaska County, New Brunswick
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