Ottawa
E4292
Ottawa is the capital city of Canada, located in eastern Ontario along the Ottawa River and known for its federal government institutions, cultural landmarks, and bilingual character.
All labels observed (16)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ottawa canonical | 776 |
| Ottawa, Ontario, Canada | 184 |
| City of Ottawa | 59 |
| Ottawa, Ontario | 38 |
| Downtown Ottawa | 3 |
| Kanata | 3 |
| downtown Ottawa | 3 |
| Bytown | 1 |
| Capital Ward, Ottawa | 1 |
| City of Ottawa municipal administration | 1 |
| Ottawa city centre | 1 |
| Ottawa metropolitan area | 1 |
| Ottawa urban area | 1 |
| Ottawa, Canada | 1 |
| Parliament Hill area of Ottawa | 1 |
| Toronto | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T14437 — 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: Ottawa Context triple: [Eastern Time Zone, includesMajorCity, Ottawa]
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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.
Montreal
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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C.
Ontario
Ontario is Canada’s most populous province, home to the nation’s capital Ottawa and its largest city Toronto, and a major economic and cultural hub.
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D.
Canadian federal government (Ottawa)
The Canadian federal government in Ottawa is the national governing authority of Canada, responsible for federal legislation, policies, and administration across the country.
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E.
Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C. is the capital city of the United States, serving as the nation’s political center and home to its federal government institutions.
- 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: Ottawa Target entity description: Ottawa is the capital city of Canada, located in eastern Ontario along the Ottawa River and known for its federal government institutions, cultural landmarks, and bilingual character.
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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.
Montreal
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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C.
Ontario
Ontario is Canada’s most populous province, home to the nation’s capital Ottawa and its largest city Toronto, and a major economic and cultural hub.
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D.
Canadian federal government (Ottawa)
The Canadian federal government in Ottawa is the national governing authority of Canada, responsible for federal legislation, policies, and administration across the country.
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E.
Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C. is the capital city of the United States, serving as the nation’s political center and home to its federal government institutions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (60)
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: Ottawa Description of subject: Ottawa is the capital city of Canada, located in eastern Ontario along the Ottawa River and known for its federal government institutions, cultural landmarks, and bilingual character.
Referenced by (1,075)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
this entity surface form:
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
this entity surface form:
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
subject surface form:
Gee-Gee
subject surface form:
Canadian Soccer Association
this entity surface form:
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
subject surface form:
Department of Medicine, University of Ottawa
subject surface form:
Department of Surgery, University of Ottawa
subject surface form:
Department of Pediatrics, University of Ottawa
subject surface form:
Department of Family Medicine (University of Ottawa)
subject surface form:
Department of Psychiatry, University of Ottawa