Richelieu River
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The Richelieu River is a significant waterway in Quebec, Canada, connecting Lake Champlain to the Saint Lawrence River and serving as an important historical and commercial route.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Richelieu River canonical | 17 |
| Richelieu River (regional vicinity) | 1 |
| Richelieu River mouth | 1 |
| Richelieu River valley | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1281620 — 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: Richelieu River Context triple: [Saint Lawrence River, hasMajorTributary, Richelieu River]
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A.
Saint-Charles River
The Saint-Charles River is an urban waterway in Quebec City known for its historic role in the city’s development and its riverside parks and trails.
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B.
Cher River
The Cher River is a major tributary of the Loire in central France, known for flowing past historic châteaux such as Chenonceau and through the Touraine region.
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C.
Saint Lawrence River
The Saint Lawrence River is a major North American waterway that connects the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean and serves as a vital commercial and cultural corridor for Canada and the United States.
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D.
Gatineau River
The Gatineau River is a major waterway in western Quebec that flows south through the Gatineau Valley before joining the Ottawa River near Canada’s National Capital Region.
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E.
La Haute-Saint-Charles
La Haute-Saint-Charles is a residential and suburban borough located in the northern part of Quebec City, known for its green spaces and family-oriented neighborhoods.
- 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: Richelieu River Target entity description: The Richelieu River is a significant waterway in Quebec, Canada, connecting Lake Champlain to the Saint Lawrence River and serving as an important historical and commercial route.
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A.
Saint-Charles River
The Saint-Charles River is an urban waterway in Quebec City known for its historic role in the city’s development and its riverside parks and trails.
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B.
Cher River
The Cher River is a major tributary of the Loire in central France, known for flowing past historic châteaux such as Chenonceau and through the Touraine region.
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C.
Saint Lawrence River
The Saint Lawrence River is a major North American waterway that connects the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean and serves as a vital commercial and cultural corridor for Canada and the United States.
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D.
Gatineau River
The Gatineau River is a major waterway in western Quebec that flows south through the Gatineau Valley before joining the Ottawa River near Canada’s National Capital Region.
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E.
La Haute-Saint-Charles
La Haute-Saint-Charles is a residential and suburban borough located in the northern part of Quebec City, known for its green spaces and family-oriented neighborhoods.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Richelieu River Description of subject: The Richelieu River is a significant waterway in Quebec, Canada, connecting Lake Champlain to the Saint Lawrence River and serving as an important historical and commercial route.
Referenced by (20)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Richelieu River
subject linked to:
Sorel-Tracy, Quebec, Canada
subject linked to:
Sorel-Tracy, Quebec, Canada
linked to: Richelieu River
subject linked to:
Le Haut-Richelieu Regional County Municipality, Quebec
subject linked to:
Le Haut-Richelieu Regional County Municipality, Quebec
subject linked to:
Le Haut-Richelieu Regional County Municipality, Quebec
Champlain–St. Bernard de Lacolle Border Crossing
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Richelieu River (regional vicinity)
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linked to: Richelieu River