Quebec City
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Quebec City is the historic capital of the Canadian province of Quebec, renowned for its well-preserved fortified old town and rich French colonial heritage.
All labels observed (17)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T14438 — 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: Quebec City Context triple: [Eastern Time Zone, includesMajorCity, Quebec City]
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Montreal
Montreal is the largest city in Quebec, Canada, known for its vibrant bilingual culture, historic architecture, and status as a major economic and cultural center.
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Ottawa
Ottawa is the capital city of Canada, located in eastern Ontario along the Ottawa River and known for its federal government institutions, cultural landmarks, and bilingual character.
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Toronto
Toronto is the largest city in Canada and a major cultural, financial, and media hub located in the province of Ontario.
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Orleans
Orleans is a coastal town on outer Cape Cod in Massachusetts known for its beaches, fishing, and role as a popular summer vacation destination.
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E.
Province of Quebec
The Province of Quebec was a British colonial territory in North America that encompassed much of present-day Quebec and parts of surrounding regions following the Seven Years' War.
- 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: Quebec City Target entity description: Quebec City is the historic capital of the Canadian province of Quebec, renowned for its well-preserved fortified old town and rich French colonial heritage.
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A.
Montreal
Montreal is the largest city in Quebec, Canada, known for its vibrant bilingual culture, historic architecture, and status as a major economic and cultural center.
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B.
Ottawa
Ottawa is the capital city of Canada, located in eastern Ontario along the Ottawa River and known for its federal government institutions, cultural landmarks, and bilingual character.
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C.
Toronto
Toronto is the largest city in Canada and a major cultural, financial, and media hub located in the province of Ontario.
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D.
Orleans
Orleans is a coastal town on outer Cape Cod in Massachusetts known for its beaches, fishing, and role as a popular summer vacation destination.
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E.
Province of Quebec
The Province of Quebec was a British colonial territory in North America that encompassed much of present-day Quebec and parts of surrounding regions following the Seven Years' War.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Quebec City Description of subject: Quebec City is the historic capital of the Canadian province of Quebec, renowned for its well-preserved fortified old town and rich French colonial heritage.
Referenced by (466)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
this entity surface form:
Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
this entity surface form:
Quebec City metropolitan area