island of Newfoundland
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The island of Newfoundland is a large North Atlantic island off Canada’s east coast that forms the island portion of the province of Newfoundland and Labrador and is known for its rugged coastline, maritime culture, and historic fishing communities.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Newfoundland | 49 |
| Island of Newfoundland | 9 |
| island of Newfoundland canonical | 9 |
| Newfoundland island | 2 |
| Newfoundland, Canada | 2 |
| Newfoundland Island | 1 |
| connected to main part of Newfoundland by Isthmus of Avalon | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T953765 — 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: island of Newfoundland Context triple: [St. John’s East, locatedOn, island of Newfoundland]
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Elizabeth Islands
The Elizabeth Islands are a small chain of largely privately owned islands off the southern coast of Massachusetts, known for their scenic, sparsely developed landscapes and maritime character.
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Labrador Peninsula
The Labrador Peninsula is a large, sparsely populated region in eastern Canada known for its subarctic climate, boreal forests, and rugged, rocky coastline along the Atlantic Ocean.
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Baffin Island
Baffin Island is the largest island in Canada and the fifth-largest in the world, located in the Arctic Archipelago of Nunavut and known for its rugged, glaciated landscape and Inuit communities.
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Prince Edward Island
Prince Edward Island is Canada's smallest province, known for its red sand beaches, rolling farmland, and as the setting of "Anne of Green Gables."
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Amherst Island
Amherst Island is a rural island community in eastern Lake Ontario, known for its pastoral landscapes, birdlife, and small historic settlements.
- 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: island of Newfoundland Target entity description: The island of Newfoundland is a large North Atlantic island off Canada’s east coast that forms the island portion of the province of Newfoundland and Labrador and is known for its rugged coastline, maritime culture, and historic fishing communities.
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Elizabeth Islands
The Elizabeth Islands are a small chain of largely privately owned islands off the southern coast of Massachusetts, known for their scenic, sparsely developed landscapes and maritime character.
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B.
Labrador Peninsula
The Labrador Peninsula is a large, sparsely populated region in eastern Canada known for its subarctic climate, boreal forests, and rugged, rocky coastline along the Atlantic Ocean.
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Baffin Island
Baffin Island is the largest island in Canada and the fifth-largest in the world, located in the Arctic Archipelago of Nunavut and known for its rugged, glaciated landscape and Inuit communities.
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Prince Edward Island
Prince Edward Island is Canada's smallest province, known for its red sand beaches, rolling farmland, and as the setting of "Anne of Green Gables."
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E.
Amherst Island
Amherst Island is a rural island community in eastern Lake Ontario, known for its pastoral landscapes, birdlife, and small historic settlements.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
geographic region
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island ⓘ |
| area | approximately 108,860 square kilometres ⓘ |
| capitalCityOnIsland | St. John’s ⓘ |
| climate | cool maritime climate ⓘ |
| coastlineCharacteristic | rugged coastline ⓘ |
| containsCity |
Corner Brook
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St. John’s ⓘ |
| containsRegion | Avalon Peninsula ⓘ |
| containsTown |
Carbonear
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Clarenville ⓘ Gander ⓘ Grand Falls-Windsor ⓘ Harbour Grace ⓘ Placentia ⓘ |
| country | Canada ⓘ |
| culturalFeature |
distinct Newfoundland English dialect
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traditional folk music and sea shanties ⓘ |
| economicActivity |
fishing
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offshore oil-related services ⓘ tourism ⓘ |
| ethnicGroups |
Indigenous peoples including Mi’kmaq
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Newfoundlanders of English descent ⓘ Newfoundlanders of Irish descent ⓘ
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Irish Canadian
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| formsPartOf | Newfoundland and Labrador ⓘ |
| highestPoint | Lewis Hills area ⓘ |
| historicalEconomy | cod fishing ⓘ |
| historicalStatus | part of the Dominion of Newfoundland before 1949 ⓘ |
| joinedCanada | 1949 ⓘ |
| knownFor |
historic fishing communities
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maritime culture ⓘ |
| largestCityOnIsland | St. John’s ⓘ |
| locatedEastOf | Gulf of St. Lawrence ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
North Atlantic Ocean
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linked to:
Atlantic Ocean
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| locatedNortheastOf | New Brunswick ⓘ |
| locatedNorthOf | Nova Scotia ⓘ |
| locatedOffCoastOf | eastern Canada ⓘ |
| locatedOn |
island of Newfoundland
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island of Newfoundland ⓘ |
| locatedSoutheastOf | Labrador Peninsula ⓘ |
| officialLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOf |
province of Newfoundland and Labrador
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linked to:
Newfoundland and Labrador
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| rankByAreaInCanadaIslands | Canada’s fourth-largest island ⓘ |
| rankByAreaInWorldIslands | one of the world’s largest islands ⓘ |
| separatedFrom |
Cape Breton Island by the Cabot Strait
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Labrador by the Strait of Belle Isle ⓘ Nova Scotia by the Cabot Strait ⓘ mainland North America by the Gulf of St. Lawrence ⓘ |
| surroundedBy | Atlantic Ocean ⓘ |
| timeOffsetDaylightSaving | UTC−02:30 ⓘ |
| timeOffsetStandard | UTC−03:30 ⓘ |
| timeZone |
Newfoundland Time
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linked to:
Newfoundland Time Zone
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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: island of Newfoundland Description of subject: The island of Newfoundland is a large North Atlantic island off Canada’s east coast that forms the island portion of the province of Newfoundland and Labrador and is known for its rugged coastline, maritime culture, and historic fishing communities.
Referenced by (73)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Harbour Grace, Newfoundland
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Hebron
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