Saint-Alban
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Saint-Alban is a small municipality in the Capitale-Nationale region of Quebec, Canada, known for its rural character and proximity to Quebec City.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Saint-Alban canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10960771 — 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: Saint-Alban Context triple: [urban agglomeration of Quebec City, containsMunicipality, Saint-Alban]
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A.
Saint-Apollinaire
Saint-Apollinaire is a commune in the Côte-d'Or department of eastern France, located near Dijon and known for its commercial and industrial zones.
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B.
Saint Ferréol
Saint Ferréol is a Christian saint after whom various places and landmarks, such as Lac de Saint-Ferréol in France, are named.
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C.
Saint-Vaast
Saint-Vaast is a district or locality within the Belgian city of La Louvière, situated in the province of Hainaut in Wallonia.
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D.
Saint-Ambroise
Saint-Ambroise is a small municipality in the Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean region of Quebec, Canada, known for its agricultural character and rural setting.
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E.
Saint Léonard
Saint Léonard is a Christian saint venerated particularly in France, traditionally regarded as the patron of prisoners and captives.
- 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: Saint-Alban Target entity description: Saint-Alban is a small municipality in the Capitale-Nationale region of Quebec, Canada, known for its rural character and proximity to Quebec City.
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A.
Saint-Apollinaire
Saint-Apollinaire is a commune in the Côte-d'Or department of eastern France, located near Dijon and known for its commercial and industrial zones.
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B.
Saint Ferréol
Saint Ferréol is a Christian saint after whom various places and landmarks, such as Lac de Saint-Ferréol in France, are named.
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C.
Saint-Vaast
Saint-Vaast is a district or locality within the Belgian city of La Louvière, situated in the province of Hainaut in Wallonia.
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D.
Saint-Ambroise
Saint-Ambroise is a small municipality in the Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean region of Quebec, Canada, known for its agricultural character and rural setting.
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E.
Saint Léonard
Saint Léonard is a Christian saint venerated particularly in France, traditionally regarded as the patron of prisoners and captives.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
municipality
ⓘ
parish municipality ⓘ |
| areaCode |
418
ⓘ
581 ⓘ |
| country | Canada ⓘ |
| countrySubdivision | Canada NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| governmentType | municipal council ⓘ |
| hasOfficialStatus | municipality ⓘ |
| hasRuralCharacter | true ⓘ |
| isNear | Quebec City NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isPartOf |
Canada
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Capitale-Nationale administrative region NERFINISHED ⓘ Portneuf Regional County Municipality NERFINISHED ⓘ Province of Quebec NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Quebec NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeRegion | Capitale-Nationale NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInCensusDivision | Portneuf NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInMetropolitanArea | Quebec City metropolitan area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInRCM | Portneuf Regional County Municipality NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone |
Eastern Daylight Time
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Eastern Standard Time NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOnContinent | North America ⓘ |
| officialLanguage | French ⓘ |
| postalCodePrefix | G0A ⓘ |
| province | Quebec NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| RCM | Portneuf NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | Capitale-Nationale NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settlementType | parish municipality ⓘ |
| timeZoneUTCOffset | −05:00 ⓘ |
| timeZoneUTCOffsetDST | −04:00 ⓘ |
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: Saint-Alban Description of subject: Saint-Alban is a small municipality in the Capitale-Nationale region of Quebec, Canada, known for its rural character and proximity to Quebec City.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.