Annapolis Royal
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Annapolis Royal is a historic town in Nova Scotia, Canada, that served as an early European colonial capital in North America and a key site in the struggle between French and British powers.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Annapolis Royal canonical | 9 |
| Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia | 3 |
| Town of Annapolis Royal Council | 1 |
| present-day Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1869108 — 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: Annapolis Royal Context triple: [Acadia, capitalLaterKnownAs, Annapolis Royal]
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A.
Mount Pearl
Mount Pearl is a small city on the Avalon Peninsula of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, known as a residential and commercial suburb adjacent to the provincial capital, St. John’s.
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B.
Charlottetown
Charlottetown is the capital city of Prince Edward Island in Canada, known as the "Birthplace of Confederation" for its key role in the 1864 Charlottetown Conference that led to Canadian Confederation.
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C.
Halifax
Halifax is a historic industrial town in West Yorkshire, England, known for its textile heritage and distinctive Victorian architecture.
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D.
Halifax
Halifax is a small town in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, known for its residential character and proximity to numerous lakes and conservation areas.
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E.
Halifax
Halifax is the capital city of the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, known as a major Atlantic port and regional economic and cultural center.
- 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: Annapolis Royal Target entity description: Annapolis Royal is a historic town in Nova Scotia, Canada, that served as an early European colonial capital in North America and a key site in the struggle between French and British powers.
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A.
Mount Pearl
Mount Pearl is a small city on the Avalon Peninsula of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, known as a residential and commercial suburb adjacent to the provincial capital, St. John’s.
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B.
Charlottetown
Charlottetown is the capital city of Prince Edward Island in Canada, known as the "Birthplace of Confederation" for its key role in the 1864 Charlottetown Conference that led to Canadian Confederation.
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C.
Halifax
Halifax is a historic industrial town in West Yorkshire, England, known for its textile heritage and distinctive Victorian architecture.
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D.
Halifax
Halifax is a small town in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, known for its residential character and proximity to numerous lakes and conservation areas.
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E.
Halifax
Halifax is the capital city of the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, known as a major Atlantic port and regional economic and cultural center.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: Annapolis Royal Description of subject: Annapolis Royal is a historic town in Nova Scotia, Canada, that served as an early European colonial capital in North America and a key site in the struggle between French and British powers.
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia
this entity surface form:
Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia
subject surface form:
Port Royal (Acadia)
subject surface form:
Port Royal (Acadia)
subject surface form:
Port Royal (Acadia)
this entity surface form:
Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia
this entity surface form:
Town of Annapolis Royal Council
this entity surface form:
present-day Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia