Pickering B
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Pickering B is a multi-unit CANDU nuclear reactor complex within Ontario's Pickering Nuclear Generating Station, used for commercial electricity production.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Pickering B canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9242223 — 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: Pickering B Context triple: [Pickering Nuclear Generating Station, hasPart, Pickering B]
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Pickering A
Pickering A is the older, western section of Ontario’s Pickering Nuclear Generating Station, consisting of its original CANDU reactor units.
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B.
Pickering
Pickering is an English-origin surname borne by numerous notable figures in science, politics, and the arts.
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C.
Pickering
Pickering is a suburban city in Southern Ontario, Canada, located just east of Toronto along Lake Ontario.
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D.
Pickering
Pickering is a historic market town in North Yorkshire, England, known as a gateway to the North York Moors and for its heritage steam railway.
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E.
Pickering
Pickering is a district within the city of Liverpool in Merseyside, England, known primarily as a residential area with local amenities and community facilities.
- 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: Pickering B Target entity description: Pickering B is a multi-unit CANDU nuclear reactor complex within Ontario's Pickering Nuclear Generating Station, used for commercial electricity production.
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A.
Pickering A
Pickering A is the older, western section of Ontario’s Pickering Nuclear Generating Station, consisting of its original CANDU reactor units.
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B.
Pickering
Pickering is a suburban city in Southern Ontario, Canada, located just east of Toronto along Lake Ontario.
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C.
Pickering
Pickering is an English-origin surname borne by numerous notable figures in science, politics, and the arts.
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D.
Pickering
Pickering is a historic market town in North Yorkshire, England, known as a gateway to the North York Moors and for its heritage steam railway.
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E.
Pickering
Pickering is a district within the city of Liverpool in Merseyside, England, known primarily as a residential area with local amenities and community facilities.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
CANDU reactor facility
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nuclear reactor complex ⓘ |
| adjacentTo | Pickering A NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coolant | heavy water ⓘ |
| coolingSource | Lake Ontario NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Canada ⓘ |
| gridConnection | Ontario electricity grid NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gridOperatorRegion | Independent Electricity System Operator (Ontario) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Pickering, Ontario, Canada NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOnShoreOf | Lake Ontario NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| moderator | heavy water ⓘ |
| numberOfReactorUnits | 4 ⓘ |
| operator | Ontario Power Generation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ownedBy | Ontario Power Generation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Pickering Nuclear Generating Station NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryFuel | natural uranium ⓘ |
| purpose | civilian nuclear power production ⓘ |
| reactorDesignFamily | CANDU 6 family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| reactorType |
CANDU
NERFINISHED
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pressurized heavy-water reactor ⓘ |
| reactorUnit |
Pickering B Unit 5
NERFINISHED
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Pickering B Unit 6 NERFINISHED ⓘ Pickering B Unit 7 NERFINISHED ⓘ Pickering B Unit 8 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| regulator | Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| safetySystem |
containment system
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multiple independent shutdown systems ⓘ |
| status | in operation ⓘ |
| technologyOrigin | Atomic Energy of Canada Limited NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| use |
base-load power generation
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commercial electricity generation ⓘ |
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: Pickering B Description of subject: Pickering B is a multi-unit CANDU nuclear reactor complex within Ontario's Pickering Nuclear Generating Station, used for commercial electricity production.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.