New Waterford
E614325
New Waterford is a small former coal-mining town located on Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia, Canada.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| New Waterford canonical | 2 |
| New Waterford Girl | 1 |
| Town of New Waterford | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6701212 — 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: New Waterford Context triple: [Cape Breton Island, hasTown, New Waterford]
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A.
Waterford
Waterford is a small town and village in eastern New York State, known as the eastern terminus of the Erie Canal and its historic canal locks.
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B.
Waterford
Waterford is a small incorporated city located in Stanislaus County in California’s Central Valley.
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C.
Waterford
Waterford is a historic port city in southeast Ireland, renowned as the country’s oldest city and for its traditional crystal glassmaking.
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D.
Waterford Tugboat Roundup
The Waterford Tugboat Roundup is an annual maritime festival in Waterford, New York, featuring historic and working tugboats, parades, demonstrations, and waterfront activities along the Erie Canal.
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E.
Fairwater
Fairwater is a residential neighbourhood within the town of Cwmbran in South Wales.
- 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: New Waterford Target entity description: New Waterford is a small former coal-mining town located on Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia, Canada.
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A.
Waterford
Waterford is a small town and village in eastern New York State, known as the eastern terminus of the Erie Canal and its historic canal locks.
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B.
Waterford
Waterford is a small incorporated city located in Stanislaus County in California’s Central Valley.
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C.
Waterford
Waterford is a historic port city in southeast Ireland, renowned as the country’s oldest city and for its traditional crystal glassmaking.
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D.
Waterford Tugboat Roundup
The Waterford Tugboat Roundup is an annual maritime festival in Waterford, New York, featuring historic and working tugboats, parades, demonstrations, and waterfront activities along the Erie Canal.
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E.
Fairwater
Fairwater is a residential neighbourhood within the town of Cwmbran in South Wales.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
community
ⓘ
town ⓘ |
| country | Canada ⓘ |
| countrySubdivision | Nova Scotia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| formerIndustry | coal mining ⓘ |
| formerMunicipalStatus | town ⓘ |
| governingBody | Cape Breton Regional Municipality Council NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAreaCode |
782
ⓘ
902 ⓘ |
| hasClimate | humid continental climate ⓘ |
| hasCoastlineOn | Atlantic Ocean ⓘ |
| hasCulturalRegion | Cape Breton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasEconomicHistory | coal industry ⓘ |
| hasEducationalInstitutionType | public schools ⓘ |
| hasLocalMediaType |
community newspaper
ⓘ
local radio coverage ⓘ |
| hasPostalCodePrefix | B1H ⓘ |
| hasPrimaryEconomicSector | service sector ⓘ |
| hasPrimaryLanguage | English ⓘ |
| hasProvinceCode | NS NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRecreationFacilityType |
community arena
ⓘ
community centre ⓘ |
| hasRegionalHospital | New Waterford Consolidated Hospital NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasReligiousHeritage |
Protestant
ⓘ
Roman Catholic ⓘ |
| hasSecondaryEconomicSector |
fishing
ⓘ
small-scale manufacturing ⓘ |
| hasSettlementType | urban community ⓘ |
| hasTransportationLink | Nova Scotia Highway 28 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalEconomicBase | coal mining ⓘ |
| isInCensusDivision | Cape Breton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isOnIsland | Cape Breton Island NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Cape Breton County
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Cape Breton Regional Municipality NERFINISHED ⓘ Nova Scotia ⓘ |
| locatedInCountry | Canada ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Atlantic Time Zone NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedNortheastOf | Sydney, Nova Scotia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOn |
Cape Breton Island
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
eastern coast of Cape Breton Island ⓘ |
| municipalAmalgamation | 1995 ⓘ |
| nearbyCity | Sydney, Nova Scotia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Cape Breton Regional Municipality NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| province | Nova Scotia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | Atlantic Canada 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: New Waterford Description of subject: New Waterford is a small former coal-mining town located on Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia, Canada.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
New Waterford Girl
subject surface form:
Cape Breton Regional Municipality
subject surface form:
Cape Breton Regional Municipality
this entity surface form:
Town of New Waterford