New Minas, Nova Scotia
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New Minas, Nova Scotia is a commercial hub village in the Annapolis Valley known for its retail centers and proximity to the town of Wolfville.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| New Minas, Nova Scotia canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8299176 — 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 Minas, Nova Scotia Context triple: [Wolfville, Nova Scotia, nearbyCommunity, New Minas, Nova Scotia]
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A.
Tatamagouche, Nova Scotia
Tatamagouche, Nova Scotia is a small coastal village on the Northumberland Strait known for its historic railway heritage, tourism, and scenic rural setting.
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B.
Wallace, Nova Scotia
Wallace, Nova Scotia is a small rural community on the Northumberland Strait in Cumberland County, known historically for its sandstone quarries and coastal scenery.
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C.
Clare, Nova Scotia
Clare, Nova Scotia is a coastal municipality in southwestern Nova Scotia known as a historic center of Acadian culture and French-language heritage.
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D.
Pictou, Nova Scotia
Pictou, Nova Scotia is a historic town on the Northumberland Strait known as the "Birthplace of New Scotland" for its early Scottish settlement and maritime heritage.
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E.
Digby, Nova Scotia
Digby, Nova Scotia is a small coastal town in western Nova Scotia known for its scallop fishing industry and scenic location on the Bay of Fundy.
- 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 Minas, Nova Scotia Target entity description: New Minas, Nova Scotia is a commercial hub village in the Annapolis Valley known for its retail centers and proximity to the town of Wolfville.
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A.
Tatamagouche, Nova Scotia
Tatamagouche, Nova Scotia is a small coastal village on the Northumberland Strait known for its historic railway heritage, tourism, and scenic rural setting.
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B.
Wallace, Nova Scotia
Wallace, Nova Scotia is a small rural community on the Northumberland Strait in Cumberland County, known historically for its sandstone quarries and coastal scenery.
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C.
Clare, Nova Scotia
Clare, Nova Scotia is a coastal municipality in southwestern Nova Scotia known as a historic center of Acadian culture and French-language heritage.
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D.
Pictou, Nova Scotia
Pictou, Nova Scotia is a historic town on the Northumberland Strait known as the "Birthplace of New Scotland" for its early Scottish settlement and maritime heritage.
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E.
Digby, Nova Scotia
Digby, Nova Scotia is a small coastal town in western Nova Scotia known for its scallop fishing industry and scenic location on the Bay of Fundy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
community
ⓘ
village ⓘ |
| areaCode |
782
ⓘ
902 ⓘ |
| country | Canada ⓘ |
| county | Kings County, Nova Scotia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| economicRole | commercial hub for the eastern Annapolis Valley ⓘ |
| governingBody | Village Commission of New Minas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAmenity |
gas stations
ⓘ
grocery stores ⓘ hotels ⓘ restaurants ⓘ |
| hasNeighbouringCommunity |
Coldbrook, Nova Scotia
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Greenwich, Nova Scotia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRecreationFacility | Louis Millett Community Complex NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasShoppingCentre | County Fair Mall NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSportsFacility |
baseball fields
ⓘ
soccer fields ⓘ |
| knownFor |
big-box stores
ⓘ
retail centres ⓘ shopping malls ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Annapolis Valley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInCountrySubdivision | Annapolis Valley, Nova Scotia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInPhysiographicRegion | Annapolis Valley lowlands NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Kentville, Nova Scotia
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Wolfville, Nova Scotia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOn |
Cornwallis River
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Evangeline Trail NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| majorHighway | Nova Scotia Highway 101 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| municipalUnit | Municipality of the County of Kings NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nearBodyOfWater | Minas Basin (Bay of Fundy) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| postalCodePrefix | B4N ⓘ |
| primaryLandUse | commercial ⓘ |
| province | Nova Scotia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | Kings County, Nova Scotia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| secondaryLandUse | residential ⓘ |
| servedBy | Kings Transit Authority NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timeZone | Atlantic Time Zone NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| UTCOffsetDST | −3 ⓘ |
| UTCOffsetStandard | −4 ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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 Minas, Nova Scotia Description of subject: New Minas, Nova Scotia is a commercial hub village in the Annapolis Valley known for its retail centers and proximity to the town of Wolfville.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.