Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada
E478151
Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada is a major city in southeastern Quebec known as an important regional economic, cultural, and educational center in the Eastern Townships.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada canonical | 2 |
| Lennoxville, Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4916100 — 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: Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada Context triple: [Harry Saltzman, placeOfBirth, Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada]
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A.
Baie-Comeau, Quebec, Canada
Baie-Comeau, Quebec, Canada is a small industrial city on the north shore of the Saint Lawrence River known for its pulp and paper industry and as the hometown of former Canadian prime minister Brian Mulroney.
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B.
Sorel-Tracy, Quebec, Canada
Sorel-Tracy, Quebec, Canada is a small industrial city northeast of Montreal known for its steel industry and as the hometown of NHL goaltender Marc-André Fleury.
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C.
Pointe-Claire, Quebec, Canada
Pointe-Claire, Quebec, Canada is a suburban city on the Island of Montreal known for its residential neighborhoods, waterfront along Lake Saint-Louis, and role as part of the Greater Montreal area.
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D.
Trois-Rivières, Quebec, Canada
Trois-Rivières is a historic city in Quebec, Canada, located at the confluence of the Saint-Maurice and Saint Lawrence rivers and known as one of the province’s oldest settlements.
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E.
Mirabel, Quebec
Mirabel, Quebec is a city in southwestern Quebec, Canada, known for its large rural territory and as the former site of Montréal–Mirabel International Airport.
- 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: Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada Target entity description: Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada is a major city in southeastern Quebec known as an important regional economic, cultural, and educational center in the Eastern Townships.
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A.
Baie-Comeau, Quebec, Canada
Baie-Comeau, Quebec, Canada is a small industrial city on the north shore of the Saint Lawrence River known for its pulp and paper industry and as the hometown of former Canadian prime minister Brian Mulroney.
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B.
Sorel-Tracy, Quebec, Canada
Sorel-Tracy, Quebec, Canada is a small industrial city northeast of Montreal known for its steel industry and as the hometown of NHL goaltender Marc-André Fleury.
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C.
Pointe-Claire, Quebec, Canada
Pointe-Claire, Quebec, Canada is a suburban city on the Island of Montreal known for its residential neighborhoods, waterfront along Lake Saint-Louis, and role as part of the Greater Montreal area.
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D.
Trois-Rivières, Quebec, Canada
Trois-Rivières is a historic city in Quebec, Canada, located at the confluence of the Saint-Maurice and Saint Lawrence rivers and known as one of the province’s oldest settlements.
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E.
Mirabel, Quebec
Mirabel, Quebec is a city in southwestern Quebec, Canada, known for its large rural territory and as the former site of Montréal–Mirabel International Airport.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
city
ⓘ
municipality ⓘ |
| country | Canada ⓘ |
| governmentType | city council ⓘ |
| hasAreaCode |
819
ⓘ
873 ⓘ |
| hasClimate | humid continental climate ⓘ |
| hasCollege | Cégep de Sherbrooke NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCulturalInstitution |
Musée de la nature et des sciences de Sherbrooke
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sherbrooke Museum of Fine Arts NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMajorIndustry |
education
ⓘ
health care ⓘ manufacturing ⓘ services ⓘ |
| hasMayor | Évelyne Beaudin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMetropolitanArea | Sherbrooke CMA NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasOfficialLanguage | French ⓘ |
| hasPopulationRankInQuebec | sixth-largest city in Quebec ⓘ |
| hasPostalCodePrefix | J1 ⓘ |
| hasSportsTeam | Sherbrooke Phoenix NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTwinTown |
Limbourg
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Phoenix NERFINISHED ⓘ Poitiers NERFINISHED ⓘ Sarajevo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasUniversity |
Bishop's University
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Université de Sherbrooke NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasUTCOffset | UTC−05:00 ⓘ |
| hasUTCOffsetDST | UTC−04:00 ⓘ |
| isCulturalCentreOf | Estrie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isEducationalCentreOf | Estrie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isKnownFor |
cultural activities
ⓘ
educational institutions ⓘ regional economic importance ⓘ |
| isPartOf | Administrative Region of Estrie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isRegionalCentreFor |
Eastern Townships
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Estrie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isServedBy |
Quebec Autoroute 10
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Quebec Autoroute 55 NERFINISHED ⓘ Quebec Route 112 NERFINISHED ⓘ Quebec Route 143 NERFINISHED ⓘ Sherbrooke Airport NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Eastern Townships
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Estrie NERFINISHED ⓘ Quebec NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Eastern Time Zone ⓘ |
| locatedOnRiver |
Magog River
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Saint-François River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sportsTeamPlays | ice hockey ⓘ |
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: Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada Description of subject: Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada is a major city in southeastern Quebec known as an important regional economic, cultural, and educational center in the Eastern Townships.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Lennoxville, Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada