Port-Cartier
E672105
Port-Cartier is a coastal industrial town and seaport in Quebec, Canada, known for its iron ore shipping facilities and location along the Gulf of St. Lawrence.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Port-Cartier canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7540850 — 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: Port-Cartier Context triple: [Côte-Nord, hasCity, Port-Cartier]
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A.
Baie-Saint-Paul
Baie-Saint-Paul is a small arts-focused town in Quebec, Canada, known for its vibrant cultural scene and as the birthplace of the world-renowned Cirque du Soleil.
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B.
Annapolis Royal
Annapolis Royal is a historic town in Nova Scotia, Canada, that served as an early European colonial capital in North America and a key site in the struggle between French and British powers.
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C.
Gaspé, Quebec
Gaspé, Quebec is a small coastal city at the tip of the Gaspé Peninsula in eastern Quebec, known for its maritime heritage and scenic Gulf of St. Lawrence surroundings.
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D.
Sault-au-Récollet
Sault-au-Récollet is a historic residential neighborhood in northern Montreal, Quebec, known for its riverside setting along the Rivière des Prairies and its heritage architecture.
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E.
L’Anse-au-Clair
L’Anse-au-Clair is a small coastal town in southeastern Labrador, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, known as a gateway community near the Quebec border on the Strait of Belle Isle.
- 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: Port-Cartier Target entity description: Port-Cartier is a coastal industrial town and seaport in Quebec, Canada, known for its iron ore shipping facilities and location along the Gulf of St. Lawrence.
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A.
Baie-Saint-Paul
Baie-Saint-Paul is a small arts-focused town in Quebec, Canada, known for its vibrant cultural scene and as the birthplace of the world-renowned Cirque du Soleil.
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B.
Annapolis Royal
Annapolis Royal is a historic town in Nova Scotia, Canada, that served as an early European colonial capital in North America and a key site in the struggle between French and British powers.
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C.
Gaspé, Quebec
Gaspé, Quebec is a small coastal city at the tip of the Gaspé Peninsula in eastern Quebec, known for its maritime heritage and scenic Gulf of St. Lawrence surroundings.
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D.
Sault-au-Récollet
Sault-au-Récollet is a historic residential neighborhood in northern Montreal, Quebec, known for its riverside setting along the Rivière des Prairies and its heritage architecture.
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E.
L’Anse-au-Clair
L’Anse-au-Clair is a small coastal town in southeastern Labrador, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, known as a gateway community near the Quebec border on the Strait of Belle Isle.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
city
ⓘ
municipality ⓘ seaport ⓘ |
| climate | cold humid continental climate ⓘ |
| country | Canada ⓘ |
| governingLevel | local municipality ⓘ |
| hasAreaCode |
418
ⓘ
581 ⓘ |
| hasEconomicActivity |
port operations
ⓘ
rail-linked ore transport ⓘ |
| hasEconomicSector |
marine transportation
ⓘ
resource extraction ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
export port for iron ore
ⓘ
industrial town ⓘ shipping hub ⓘ |
| hasHarbourType | deep-water harbour ⓘ |
| hasPortFacility | Port-Cartier deep-water port ⓘ |
| hasPostalCodePrefix | G5B ⓘ |
| hasPrimaryIndustry |
forestry
ⓘ
iron ore shipping ⓘ mining-related industry ⓘ pulp and paper ⓘ |
| hasRegionType | coastal industrial town ⓘ |
| hasSettlementType | town ⓘ |
| hasTransportInfrastructure |
railway connection to mining areas
ⓘ
seaport ⓘ |
| isCoastalCity | true ⓘ |
| isInCountry | Canada NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isLocatedInCountrySubdivision | Province of Quebec NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isLocatedOnCoastOf |
Gulf of St. Lawrence
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Quebec NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isNorthOf | Gulf of St. Lawrence NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isOnWaterbody | Gulf of St. Lawrence NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isPartOf | Côte-Nord region NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isServedByCompany |
ArcelorMittal
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
ArcelorMittal Mines and Infrastructure Canada NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Quebec NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeRegion | Côte-Nord NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOn |
Gulf of St. Lawrence
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Saint Lawrence River estuary NERFINISHED ⓘ north shore of the Gulf of St. Lawrence ⓘ |
| majorLanguage | French ⓘ |
| officialLanguage | French ⓘ |
| province | Quebec NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timeZone | Eastern Time Zone ⓘ |
| timeZoneDST |
Eastern Time Zone
ⓘ
surface form:
Eastern Daylight Time
|
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: Port-Cartier Description of subject: Port-Cartier is a coastal industrial town and seaport in Quebec, Canada, known for its iron ore shipping facilities and location along the Gulf of St. Lawrence.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Côte-Nord