Beauharnois, Quebec
E530321
Beauharnois, Quebec is a small city in southwestern Quebec, Canada, situated along the Saint Lawrence River and known for its major hydroelectric power facilities and role in regional industry and transportation.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Beauharnois, Quebec canonical | 1 |
| Valleyfield, Quebec | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5570933 — 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: Beauharnois, Quebec Context triple: [Beauharnois generating station, locatedIn, Beauharnois, Quebec]
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A.
Saint-Hubert, Quebec
Saint-Hubert, Quebec is a borough of Longueuil near Montreal best known as the home of the Canadian Space Agency’s headquarters and a hub for aerospace activities.
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B.
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.
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C.
Bécancour, Quebec
Bécancour, Quebec is a small industrial and agricultural city on the south shore of the Saint Lawrence River in central Quebec, known for its industrial park and proximity to Trois-Rivières.
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D.
Valcartier, Quebec
Valcartier, Quebec is a Canadian military community near Quebec City best known for its large training base and historic role as a mobilization camp during World War I.
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E.
Verchères
Verchères is a riverside municipality in Quebec, Canada, located on the south shore of the Saint Lawrence River and known for its historic village and agricultural surroundings.
- 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: Beauharnois, Quebec Target entity description: Beauharnois, Quebec is a small city in southwestern Quebec, Canada, situated along the Saint Lawrence River and known for its major hydroelectric power facilities and role in regional industry and transportation.
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A.
Saint-Hubert, Quebec
Saint-Hubert, Quebec is a borough of Longueuil near Montreal best known as the home of the Canadian Space Agency’s headquarters and a hub for aerospace activities.
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B.
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.
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C.
Bécancour, Quebec
Bécancour, Quebec is a small industrial and agricultural city on the south shore of the Saint Lawrence River in central Quebec, known for its industrial park and proximity to Trois-Rivières.
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D.
Valcartier, Quebec
Valcartier, Quebec is a Canadian military community near Quebec City best known for its large training base and historic role as a mobilization camp during World War I.
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E.
Verchères
Verchères is a riverside municipality in Quebec, Canada, located on the south shore of the Saint Lawrence River and known for its historic village and agricultural surroundings.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
city
ⓘ
municipality ⓘ |
| areaCode |
450
ⓘ
579 ⓘ |
| climate | humid continental climate ⓘ |
| country | Canada ⓘ |
| countrySubdivision | Province of Quebec NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| electricUtilityOperator | Hydro-Québec NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| governingBody | Beauharnois City Council NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasEconomicSector |
energy
ⓘ
manufacturing ⓘ transport and logistics ⓘ |
| hasHydroelectricFacility | Beauharnois generating station NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasInfrastructureRole |
regional energy distribution
ⓘ
regional freight movement ⓘ |
| hasPortFunction | regional river transport ⓘ |
| hasPowerPlant | Beauharnois hydroelectric power station NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRegionalImportance | hydroelectric hub on the Saint Lawrence River ⓘ |
| hasStructure |
Beauharnois Canal
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Beauharnois Dam NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| headOfGovernment | Mayor of Beauharnois ⓘ |
| isMunicipalStatus | ville ⓘ |
| isPartOfCorridor | Quebec industrial and transportation corridor along the Saint Lawrence River ⓘ |
| knownFor |
hydroelectric power generation
ⓘ
industrial activity ⓘ transportation infrastructure ⓘ |
| languageMajority | French-speaking population ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Quebec NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeEntity |
Beauharnois-Salaberry Regional County Municipality
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Montérégie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInCountry | Canada ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | Southwestern Quebec NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Eastern Time Zone ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Montreal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOn |
Saint Lawrence River
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
south shore of the Saint Lawrence River ⓘ |
| locatedOnWaterway | Saint Lawrence River navigation system ⓘ |
| locatedWestOf | Montreal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| officialLanguage | French ⓘ |
| partOf | Beauharnois-Salaberry census division NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| postalCodePrefix | J6N ⓘ |
| roadAccess |
Autoroute 30
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Quebec Route 132 NERFINISHED ⓘ Quebec Route 236 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| traversedBy | Saint Lawrence Seaway NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usesDaylightSavingTime | yes ⓘ |
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: Beauharnois, Quebec Description of subject: Beauharnois, Quebec is a small city in southwestern Quebec, Canada, situated along the Saint Lawrence River and known for its major hydroelectric power facilities and role in regional industry and transportation.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Valleyfield, Quebec