United States (across the St. Lawrence River and Lake Ontario)
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The United States is a large federal republic in North America located south of Canada, with parts of its northern border lying across the St. Lawrence River and Lake Ontario.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| United States (New York State) across the St. Lawrence River | 1 |
| United States (across the St. Lawrence River and Lake Ontario) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5458834 — 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: United States (across the St. Lawrence River and Lake Ontario) Context triple: [Frontenac County (census division), borderedBy, United States (across the St. Lawrence River and Lake Ontario)]
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A.
north shore of Lake Ontario
The north shore of Lake Ontario is a scenic stretch of shoreline in southern Ontario, Canada, known for its mix of rural landscapes, growing communities, and recreational waterfront areas.
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B.
north shore of the Saint Lawrence River
The north shore of the Saint Lawrence River is the historically significant northern bank of the major waterway connecting the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean, forming a key corridor for settlement, trade, and transportation in what is now eastern Canada.
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C.
South Shore of the Saint Lawrence River
The South Shore of the Saint Lawrence River is the stretch of communities and landscapes lying along the river’s southern bank in Quebec, opposite the more industrialized and urbanized North Shore.
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D.
United States and Canada
The United States and Canada are neighboring North American countries that share the world’s longest international land border and have closely intertwined economic, cultural, and sporting ties.
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E.
Thousand Islands region
The Thousand Islands region is a scenic archipelago along the St. Lawrence River, renowned for its thousands of small islands, historic sites, and popular boating and vacation destinations shared between Canada and the United States.
- 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: United States (across the St. Lawrence River and Lake Ontario) Target entity description: The United States is a large federal republic in North America located south of Canada, with parts of its northern border lying across the St. Lawrence River and Lake Ontario.
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A.
north shore of Lake Ontario
The north shore of Lake Ontario is a scenic stretch of shoreline in southern Ontario, Canada, known for its mix of rural landscapes, growing communities, and recreational waterfront areas.
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B.
north shore of the Saint Lawrence River
The north shore of the Saint Lawrence River is the historically significant northern bank of the major waterway connecting the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean, forming a key corridor for settlement, trade, and transportation in what is now eastern Canada.
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C.
South Shore of the Saint Lawrence River
The South Shore of the Saint Lawrence River is the stretch of communities and landscapes lying along the river’s southern bank in Quebec, opposite the more industrialized and urbanized North Shore.
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D.
United States and Canada
The United States and Canada are neighboring North American countries that share the world’s longest international land border and have closely intertwined economic, cultural, and sporting ties.
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E.
Thousand Islands region
The Thousand Islands region is a scenic archipelago along the St. Lawrence River, renowned for its thousands of small islands, historic sites, and popular boating and vacation destinations shared between Canada and the United States.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
country in North America
ⓘ
federal republic ⓘ sovereign state ⓘ |
| borderFeature |
Lake Ontario
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
St. Lawrence River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| borderingCanadianProvinceAcrossLakeOntario | Ontario NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| borderingProvinceAcrossStLawrence |
Ontario
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Quebec NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| borderingUSStateOnLakeOntario | New York NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| borderingUSStateOnStLawrenceRiver |
Maine
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
New York NERFINISHED ⓘ Vermont NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| callingCode | +1 ⓘ |
| capital | Washington, D.C. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| currency |
US dollar
ⓘ
surface form:
United States dollar
|
| currencyCode | USD NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| deFactoOfficialLanguage | English NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| drivesOnThe | right ⓘ |
| governmentType | federal presidential constitutional republic ⓘ |
| hasGreatLakeOnBorder |
Lake Erie
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Lake Huron NERFINISHED ⓘ Lake Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ Lake Ontario NERFINISHED ⓘ Lake Superior NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMaritimeBorderWith |
Bahamas
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Belize NERFINISHED ⓘ Canada NERFINISHED ⓘ Colombia NERFINISHED ⓘ Cuba NERFINISHED ⓘ Dominican Republic NERFINISHED ⓘ Haiti NERFINISHED ⓘ Honduras NERFINISHED ⓘ Nicaragua NERFINISHED ⓘ Russia NERFINISHED ⓘ Venezuela NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| headOfGovernment | President of the United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| headOfState | President of the United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| internetTLD | .us ⓘ |
| largestCity | New York City NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| legislature | United States Congress NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| lowerHouse | United States House of Representatives NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOf |
G20
NERFINISHED
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G7 NERFINISHED ⓘ North Atlantic Treaty Organization NERFINISHED ⓘ United Nations ⓘ |
| northernBorderLiesAcross |
Lake Ontario
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
St. Lawrence River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| officialLanguage | English ⓘ |
| sharesBorderWith |
Canada
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mexico NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| upperHouse | United States Senate NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: United States (across the St. Lawrence River and Lake Ontario) Description of subject: The United States is a large federal republic in North America located south of Canada, with parts of its northern border lying across the St. Lawrence River and Lake Ontario.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Frontenac County (census division)
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borderedBy
→
United States (across the St. Lawrence River and Lake Ontario)
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this entity surface form:
United States (New York State) across the St. Lawrence River