Point du Sable
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Point du Sable is the surname of Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, the Haitian-born trader widely regarded as the founder of Chicago.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Point du Sable canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10787473 — 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: Point du Sable Context triple: [Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, familyName, Point du Sable]
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A.
Pointe-Calumet
Pointe-Calumet is a small lakeside municipality in southwestern Quebec, Canada, known for its recreational waterfront and proximity to the Montreal metropolitan area.
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B.
Pointe du Lac
Pointe du Lac is a Paris Métro station in Créteil that serves as the eastern endpoint of Line 8 and connects the surrounding suburban area to central Paris.
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C.
Minnesota Point
Minnesota Point is a long, narrow sand spit in Duluth, Minnesota, that separates Lake Superior from Superior Bay and forms part of the city’s harbor.
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D.
Big Bay Point
Big Bay Point is a lakeside community on the shores of Lake Simcoe in Ontario, Canada, known for its marina, resort, and recreational waterfront activities.
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E.
Nashwaaksis
Nashwaaksis is a residential neighbourhood in the city of Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada.
- 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: Point du Sable Target entity description: Point du Sable is the surname of Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, the Haitian-born trader widely regarded as the founder of Chicago.
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A.
Pointe-Calumet
Pointe-Calumet is a small lakeside municipality in southwestern Quebec, Canada, known for its recreational waterfront and proximity to the Montreal metropolitan area.
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B.
Pointe du Lac
Pointe du Lac is a Paris Métro station in Créteil that serves as the eastern endpoint of Line 8 and connects the surrounding suburban area to central Paris.
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C.
Minnesota Point
Minnesota Point is a long, narrow sand spit in Duluth, Minnesota, that separates Lake Superior from Superior Bay and forms part of the city’s harbor.
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D.
Big Bay Point
Big Bay Point is a lakeside community on the shores of Lake Simcoe in Ontario, Canada, known for its marina, resort, and recreational waterfront activities.
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E.
Nashwaaksis
Nashwaaksis is a residential neighbourhood in the city of Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| activeIn |
Great Lakes region
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Illinois Country NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | St. Charles, Missouri NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| citizenship | France ⓘ |
| commemoratedIn | Chicago city seal (founder recognition) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | Saint-Domingue NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfDeath | United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1818 ⓘ |
| ethnicOrigin | Haitian ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
frontier trade
ⓘ
fur trade ⓘ |
| founded | permanent settlement at the mouth of the Chicago River ⓘ |
| givenName | Jean Baptiste NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasHeritage |
African descent
ⓘ
French descent ⓘ |
| hasMemorial |
DuSable Bridge in Chicago
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
DuSable Museum of African American History NERFINISHED ⓘ DuSable Park in Chicago NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownAs | founder of Chicago ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
English
ⓘ
French ⓘ Indigenous languages of the Great Lakes region ⓘ |
| name | Jean Baptiste Point du Sable NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationalityAtDeath | American ⓘ |
| notableFor | being regarded as the founder of Chicago ⓘ |
| occupation |
pioneer
ⓘ
settler ⓘ trader ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Saint-Domingue NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | St. Charles, Missouri NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion |
Roman Catholicism
ⓘ
surface form:
Catholicism
|
| residence |
Chicago
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Illinois Territory NERFINISHED ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| significantEvent | established trading post at Chicago River ⓘ |
| spouse | Kitihawa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouseEthnicOrigin | Potawatomi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subjectOf | historical studies on the founding of Chicago ⓘ |
| surname | Point du Sable NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timePeriod |
18th century
ⓘ
early 19th century ⓘ |
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: Point du Sable Description of subject: Point du Sable is the surname of Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, the Haitian-born trader widely regarded as the founder of Chicago.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.