Camp Valcartier
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Camp Valcartier is a major Canadian military training base in Quebec that historically served as a key assembly and training site for troops, including during the First World War.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| CFB Valcartier | 3 |
| Canadian Forces Base Valcartier | 3 |
| Valcartier Garrison | 2 |
| Base Valcartier | 1 |
| Base de soutien de la 2e Division du Canada Valcartier | 1 |
| Camp Valcartier canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T340373 — 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: Camp Valcartier Context triple: [Canadian Expeditionary Force, mobilizationCentre, Camp Valcartier]
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A.
National Defence Headquarters, Ottawa
National Defence Headquarters in Ottawa is the central command and administrative hub for Canada’s military, including the Royal Canadian Air Force.
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B.
Canadian War Museum
The Canadian War Museum is Canada’s national museum of military history, located in Ottawa and dedicated to preserving and presenting the country’s military heritage and its impact on society.
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C.
Moore Barracks
Moore Barracks is a British military installation named in honor of Sir John Moore, a renowned general of the Napoleonic Wars.
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D.
Le Bourget Field
Le Bourget Field is a historic airfield near Paris, France, best known as the landing site of Charles Lindbergh’s pioneering solo nonstop transatlantic flight in 1927.
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E.
Fort Huachuca
Fort Huachuca is a major U.S. Army installation in southeastern Arizona known for its roles in military intelligence, communications, and electronic testing.
- 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: Camp Valcartier Target entity description: Camp Valcartier is a major Canadian military training base in Quebec that historically served as a key assembly and training site for troops, including during the First World War.
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A.
National Defence Headquarters, Ottawa
National Defence Headquarters in Ottawa is the central command and administrative hub for Canada’s military, including the Royal Canadian Air Force.
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B.
Canadian War Museum
The Canadian War Museum is Canada’s national museum of military history, located in Ottawa and dedicated to preserving and presenting the country’s military heritage and its impact on society.
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C.
Moore Barracks
Moore Barracks is a British military installation named in honor of Sir John Moore, a renowned general of the Napoleonic Wars.
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D.
Le Bourget Field
Le Bourget Field is a historic airfield near Paris, France, best known as the landing site of Charles Lindbergh’s pioneering solo nonstop transatlantic flight in 1927.
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E.
Fort Huachuca
Fort Huachuca is a major U.S. Army installation in southeastern Arizona known for its roles in military intelligence, communications, and electronic testing.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Canadian Armed Forces base
ⓘ
military base ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Camp Valcartier
ⓘ
surface form:
Base Valcartier
Camp Valcartier ⓘ
surface form:
CFB Valcartier
|
| builtFor | training Canadian Expeditionary Force ⓘ |
| climate | continental climate with cold winters ⓘ |
| conflict |
World War I
ⓘ
surface form:
First World War
|
| controlledBy |
Department of National Defence
ⓘ
surface form:
Department of National Defence (Canada)
|
| country | Canada ⓘ |
| established | 1914 ⓘ |
| garrison |
2nd Canadian Division
ⓘ
5 Canadian Mechanized Brigade Group ⓘ |
| hasActivity |
NATO-standard exercises
ⓘ
regular force training ⓘ reserve force training ⓘ |
| hasEnvironmentalIssue | unexploded ordnance in training areas ⓘ |
| hasFacility |
barracks
ⓘ
firing ranges ⓘ support infrastructure ⓘ training areas ⓘ |
| hasRole |
support to domestic operations training
ⓘ
support to overseas deployment preparation ⓘ |
| historicalRole | First World War assembly and training camp ⓘ |
| language |
English
ⓘ
French ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Quebec, Canada
ⓘ
surface form:
Quebec
|
| locatedNear | Quebec City ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Land forces ⓘ |
| notableFor | large-scale mobilization in 1914 ⓘ |
| operatedBy |
Canadian Army (pre‑1968)
ⓘ
surface form:
Canadian Army
|
| ownedBy |
Canadian federal government (Ottawa)
ⓘ
surface form:
Government of Canada
|
| partOf |
Camp Valcartier
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Canadian Forces Base Valcartier
|
| region |
Valcartier, Quebec
ⓘ
surface form:
Saint-Gabriel-de-Valcartier, Quebec
|
| significance | major Canadian military training base in Quebec ⓘ |
| terrain |
forested terrain
ⓘ
mixed fields and woodland ⓘ |
| timeInService |
20th century
ⓘ
21st century ⓘ |
| transportAccess | road access from Quebec City region ⓘ |
| usedFor |
field exercises
ⓘ
live-fire training ⓘ military training ⓘ mobilization ⓘ troop assembly ⓘ |
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: Camp Valcartier Description of subject: Camp Valcartier is a major Canadian military training base in Quebec that historically served as a key assembly and training site for troops, including during the First World War.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Canadian Forces Base Valcartier
this entity surface form:
CFB Valcartier
this entity surface form:
Base Valcartier
this entity surface form:
Valcartier Garrison
this entity surface form:
CFB Valcartier
this entity surface form:
CFB Valcartier
this entity surface form:
Base de soutien de la 2e Division du Canada Valcartier
subject surface form:
Royal 22e Régiment
this entity surface form:
Valcartier Garrison
this entity surface form:
Canadian Forces Base Valcartier
this entity surface form:
Canadian Forces Base Valcartier