Lacolle, Quebec
E916049
Lacolle, Quebec is a small Canadian municipality in the Montérégie region of southern Quebec, located near the U.S. border opposite New York State.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lacolle, Quebec canonical | 2 |
| Lacolle | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11262837 — 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: Lacolle, Quebec Context triple: [Rouses Point–Lacolle 223 Border Crossing, connects, Lacolle, Quebec]
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A.
La Prairie, Quebec
La Prairie is a suburban city on the south shore of Montreal in Quebec, Canada, known for its historic district and location along the Saint Lawrence River system.
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B.
Beauharnois, Quebec
Beauharnois, Quebec is a small city in southwestern Quebec, Canada, situated along the Saint Lawrence River and known for its major hydroelectric power facilities and role in regional industry and transportation.
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C.
La Pocatière, Quebec
La Pocatière, Quebec is a small town in the Bas-Saint-Laurent region known as an educational and religious center along the south shore of the Saint Lawrence River.
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D.
Saint-Bernard, Quebec
Saint-Bernard, Quebec is a small rural municipality in the Chaudière-Appalaches region of southeastern Quebec, Canada, known for its agricultural character and close-knit community.
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E.
Saint-Hubert, Quebec
Saint-Hubert, Quebec is a borough of Longueuil near Montreal best known as the home of the Canadian Space Agency’s headquarters and a hub for aerospace activities.
- 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: Lacolle, Quebec Target entity description: Lacolle, Quebec is a small Canadian municipality in the Montérégie region of southern Quebec, located near the U.S. border opposite New York State.
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A.
La Prairie, Quebec
La Prairie is a suburban city on the south shore of Montreal in Quebec, Canada, known for its historic district and location along the Saint Lawrence River system.
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B.
Beauharnois, Quebec
Beauharnois, Quebec is a small city in southwestern Quebec, Canada, situated along the Saint Lawrence River and known for its major hydroelectric power facilities and role in regional industry and transportation.
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C.
La Pocatière, Quebec
La Pocatière, Quebec is a small town in the Bas-Saint-Laurent region known as an educational and religious center along the south shore of the Saint Lawrence River.
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D.
Saint-Bernard, Quebec
Saint-Bernard, Quebec is a small rural municipality in the Chaudière-Appalaches region of southeastern Quebec, Canada, known for its agricultural character and close-knit community.
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E.
Saint-Hubert, Quebec
Saint-Hubert, Quebec is a borough of Longueuil near Montreal best known as the home of the Canadian Space Agency’s headquarters and a hub for aerospace activities.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | municipality ⓘ |
| adjacentUSState | New York NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| areaCode |
450
ⓘ
579 ⓘ |
| borderCrossingConnectsTo | Champlain, New York NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| borderCrossingType | road border crossing ⓘ |
| country | Canada ⓘ |
| countryBordered | United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distanceToMontrealApproxKm | 60 ⓘ |
| economicActivity |
agriculture
ⓘ
cross-border trade ⓘ |
| governingBody | Municipality of Lacolle council NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasBorderCrossing | Lacolle border crossing ⓘ |
| hasBorderFacility | major commercial port of entry between Canada and the United States ⓘ |
| hasClimate | humid continental climate ⓘ |
| hasRiver | Lacolle River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasService | customs and immigration facilities at border ⓘ |
| historicalEventNearby |
Battle of Lacolle (1838)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Battle of Lacolle Mills (1814) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isPartOf | South Shore of Montreal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| latitudeApprox | 45.083 ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Saint-Lawrence Lowlands
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
southern Quebec ⓘ |
| locatedInCensusDivision | Le Haut-Richelieu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInFederalRiding | Saint-Jean NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInProvincialRiding | Huntingdon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Canada–United States border
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Richelieu River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOpposite | New York State NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedSouthOf | Montreal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| longitudeApprox | -73.366 ⓘ |
| majorHighway |
Quebec Autoroute 15
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Quebec Route 202 NERFINISHED ⓘ Quebec Route 221 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Lacolle River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| officialLanguage | French ⓘ |
| postalCodePrefix | J0J ⓘ |
| primaryLanguage | French ⓘ |
| province | Quebec NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| RCM | Le Haut-Richelieu Regional County Municipality NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | Montérégie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| roadConnectionTo | Montreal via Autoroute 15 ⓘ |
| timeZone | Eastern Time Zone ⓘ |
| timeZoneDST |
Eastern Time Zone
ⓘ
surface form:
Eastern Daylight Time
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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: Lacolle, Quebec Description of subject: Lacolle, Quebec is a small Canadian municipality in the Montérégie region of southern Quebec, located near the U.S. border opposite New York State.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Lacolle