Blanc-Sablon
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Blanc-Sablon is a small coastal community in eastern Quebec, Canada, known as a remote fishing and ferry port near the Labrador border.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Blanc-Sablon canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10713456 — 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: Blanc-Sablon Context triple: [Strait of Belle Isle, hasNearbySettlement, Blanc-Sablon]
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A.
Pessamit
Pessamit is a major Innu First Nation community in Quebec, Canada, known for its strong preservation of Innu culture and language.
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B.
Baie-D’Urfé
Baie-D’Urfé is a small, affluent suburban town on the western tip of the Island of Montreal in Quebec, Canada, known for its residential character and waterfront along Lake Saint-Louis.
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C.
Côte-de-Beaupré
Côte-de-Beaupré is a historic rural and touristic region along the north shore of the Saint Lawrence River near Quebec City, known for its scenic landscapes, religious heritage, and agricultural traditions.
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D.
Pointe-à-Raquette
Pointe-à-Raquette is the principal town and administrative center of Gonâve Island in Haiti.
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E.
Lac Mistassini
Lac Mistassini is the largest natural lake in Quebec, Canada, known for its remote boreal setting and importance to Indigenous Cree communities.
- 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: Blanc-Sablon Target entity description: Blanc-Sablon is a small coastal community in eastern Quebec, Canada, known as a remote fishing and ferry port near the Labrador border.
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A.
Pessamit
Pessamit is a major Innu First Nation community in Quebec, Canada, known for its strong preservation of Innu culture and language.
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B.
Baie-D’Urfé
Baie-D’Urfé is a small, affluent suburban town on the western tip of the Island of Montreal in Quebec, Canada, known for its residential character and waterfront along Lake Saint-Louis.
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C.
Côte-de-Beaupré
Côte-de-Beaupré is a historic rural and touristic region along the north shore of the Saint Lawrence River near Quebec City, known for its scenic landscapes, religious heritage, and agricultural traditions.
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D.
Pointe-à-Raquette
Pointe-à-Raquette is the principal town and administrative center of Gonâve Island in Haiti.
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E.
Lac Mistassini
Lac Mistassini is the largest natural lake in Quebec, Canada, known for its remote boreal setting and importance to Indigenous Cree communities.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
municipality
ⓘ
village ⓘ |
| airportIATACode | YBX NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| airportICAOCode | CYBX NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| areaCode |
418
ⓘ
581 ⓘ |
| borderWith | Newfoundland and Labrador NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| climate |
maritime-influenced climate
ⓘ
subarctic climate ⓘ |
| coastType | rocky coastline with sandy areas ⓘ |
| country | Canada ⓘ |
| daylightSavingTimeUTCOffset | −03:00 ⓘ |
| elevation | approximately 10 metres above sea level ⓘ |
| governingBody | Municipality of Blanc-Sablon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAirport | Blanc-Sablon Airport NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMinorityLanguage | English ⓘ |
| hasService | ferry link to Newfoundland and Labrador ⓘ |
| hasSettlement |
Blanc-Sablon village centre
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Brador NERFINISHED ⓘ Lourdes-de-Blanc-Sablon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTransportRole | terminus of coastal ferry services along Lower North Shore ⓘ |
| isCoastalCommunity | true ⓘ |
| isFerryPort | true ⓘ |
| isFishingPort | true ⓘ |
| isRemoteCommunity | true ⓘ |
| locatedEastOf | Havre-Saint-Pierre NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Lower North Shore of Quebec
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
eastern Quebec NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOn |
Blanc-Sablon Bay
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Gulf of Saint Lawrence NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedWestOf | L'Anse-au-Clair, Newfoundland and Labrador NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nameLanguageOfOrigin | French ⓘ |
| nameMeaning | white sand ⓘ |
| near | Labrador border ⓘ |
| officialLanguage | French ⓘ |
| populationCharacteristic | small population ⓘ |
| postalCodePrefix | G0G ⓘ |
| primaryEconomicActivity | fishing ⓘ |
| province | Quebec NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | Côte-Nord NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| regionalCountyMunicipality | Le Golfe-du-Saint-Laurent NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| roadAccess |
Route 138
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Trans-Labrador Highway (via nearby Labrador communities) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| secondaryEconomicActivity | tourism ⓘ |
| servedBy |
MV Bella Desgagnés
NERFINISHED
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Relais Nordik ferry service NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| standardTimeUTCOffset | −04:00 ⓘ |
| timezone | Atlantic Time Zone NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Blanc-Sablon Description of subject: Blanc-Sablon is a small coastal community in eastern Quebec, Canada, known as a remote fishing and ferry port near the Labrador border.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.