Gulf of St. Lawrence
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The Gulf of St. Lawrence is a large semi-enclosed sea on the Atlantic coast of Canada that serves as the outlet for the Great Lakes–St. Lawrence waterway and is bordered by several eastern Canadian provinces.
All labels observed (10)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T396903 — 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: Gulf of St. Lawrence Context triple: [Great Lakes–St. Lawrence system, flowsInto, Gulf of St. Lawrence]
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Hudson Strait
Hudson Strait is a large Arctic waterway in northeastern Canada that connects the Atlantic Ocean to Hudson Bay and serves as an important historical and modern shipping route.
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Gulf of Maine
The Gulf of Maine is a large, biologically rich and cold-water marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean off the northeastern coast of the United States and southeastern Canada.
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Placentia Bay
Placentia Bay is a large bay on the southeast coast of Newfoundland, Canada, historically notable as the site where Churchill and Roosevelt met in 1941 to agree on the Atlantic Charter.
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Baffin Bay
Baffin Bay is a marginal sea between Greenland and Canada, known for its Arctic climate, extensive sea ice, and role as a key passage between the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans.
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Labrador Sea
The Labrador Sea is a marginal sea of the North Atlantic Ocean between Greenland and the Labrador Peninsula, known for its cold waters, deep convection, and role in North Atlantic ocean circulation.
- 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: Gulf of St. Lawrence Target entity description: The Gulf of St. Lawrence is a large semi-enclosed sea on the Atlantic coast of Canada that serves as the outlet for the Great Lakes–St. Lawrence waterway and is bordered by several eastern Canadian provinces.
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A.
Hudson Strait
Hudson Strait is a large Arctic waterway in northeastern Canada that connects the Atlantic Ocean to Hudson Bay and serves as an important historical and modern shipping route.
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Gulf of Maine
The Gulf of Maine is a large, biologically rich and cold-water marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean off the northeastern coast of the United States and southeastern Canada.
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Placentia Bay
Placentia Bay is a large bay on the southeast coast of Newfoundland, Canada, historically notable as the site where Churchill and Roosevelt met in 1941 to agree on the Atlantic Charter.
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Baffin Bay
Baffin Bay is a marginal sea between Greenland and Canada, known for its Arctic climate, extensive sea ice, and role as a key passage between the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans.
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E.
Labrador Sea
The Labrador Sea is a marginal sea of the North Atlantic Ocean between Greenland and the Labrador Peninsula, known for its cold waters, deep convection, and role in North Atlantic ocean circulation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Gulf of St. Lawrence Description of subject: The Gulf of St. Lawrence is a large semi-enclosed sea on the Atlantic coast of Canada that serves as the outlet for the Great Lakes–St. Lawrence waterway and is bordered by several eastern Canadian provinces.
Referenced by (88)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Gulf of Saint Lawrence
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Gulf of St. Lawrence system
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Gulf of Saint Lawrence
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Gulf of Saint Lawrence
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Gulf of Saint Lawrence
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Gulf of Saint Lawrence
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Gulf of Saint Lawrence
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Gulf of Saint Lawrence
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Gulf of Saint Lawrence basin
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Gulf of St. Lawrence basin
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Gulf of St. Lawrence region
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Gulf of St. Lawrence shorelines
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Gulf of St. Lawrence watershed
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Gulf of St. Lawrence drainage basin