Montreal
E2604
Montreal is the largest city in Quebec, Canada, known for its vibrant bilingual culture, historic architecture, and status as a major economic and cultural center.
All labels observed (15)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Montreal canonical | 1,478 |
| City of Montreal | 63 |
| Montreal, Quebec, Canada | 48 |
| Montreal, Quebec | 21 |
| Montréal | 11 |
| Montreal, Canada | 10 |
| Ville de Montréal | 3 |
| Greater Montreal | 1 |
| Montreal (urban agglomeration) | 1 |
| Montreal (via bridges) | 1 |
| Montreal, Lower Canada | 1 |
| Montreal, Province of Canada | 1 |
| Old Montreal | 1 |
| Ville-Marie | 1 |
| city of Montreal | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T14436 — 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: Montreal Context triple: [Eastern Time Zone, includesMajorCity, Montreal]
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A.
Toronto
Toronto is the largest city in Canada and a major cultural, financial, and media hub located in the province of Ontario.
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B.
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city of France, renowned for its historic architecture, art, fashion, and cultural influence worldwide.
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C.
Orleans
Orleans is a coastal town on outer Cape Cod in Massachusetts known for its beaches, fishing, and role as a popular summer vacation destination.
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D.
St. Petersburg
St. Petersburg is a major Russian port city on the Baltic Sea, renowned for its imperial architecture, cultural heritage, and role as a historic capital of Russia.
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E.
Province of Quebec
The Province of Quebec was a British colonial territory in North America that encompassed much of present-day Quebec and parts of surrounding regions following the Seven Years' War.
- 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: Montreal Target entity description: Montreal is the largest city in Quebec, Canada, known for its vibrant bilingual culture, historic architecture, and status as a major economic and cultural center.
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A.
Toronto
Toronto is the largest city in Canada and a major cultural, financial, and media hub located in the province of Ontario.
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B.
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city of France, renowned for its historic architecture, art, fashion, and cultural influence worldwide.
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C.
Orleans
Orleans is a coastal town on outer Cape Cod in Massachusetts known for its beaches, fishing, and role as a popular summer vacation destination.
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D.
St. Petersburg
St. Petersburg is a major Russian port city on the Baltic Sea, renowned for its imperial architecture, cultural heritage, and role as a historic capital of Russia.
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E.
Province of Quebec
The Province of Quebec was a British colonial territory in North America that encompassed much of present-day Quebec and parts of surrounding regions following the Seven Years' War.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Montreal Description of subject: Montreal is the largest city in Quebec, Canada, known for its vibrant bilingual culture, historic architecture, and status as a major economic and cultural center.
Referenced by (1,642)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
this entity surface form:
City of Montreal
this entity surface form:
City of Montreal
this entity surface form:
City of Montreal
this entity surface form:
City of Montreal
this entity surface form:
Ville de Montréal
this entity surface form:
Montréal
this entity surface form:
Montréal
subject surface form:
Montréal–Mirabel International Airport
subject surface form:
Montréal–Mirabel International Airport
subject surface form:
Montréal–Mirabel International Airport
subject surface form:
Mirabel
subject surface form:
France Pavilion (Expo 67)