New Westminster
E195349
New Westminster is a historic city in the Metro Vancouver region of British Columbia, Canada, situated along the Fraser River.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| New Westminster canonical | 23 |
| City of New Westminster | 6 |
| New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada | 6 |
| New Westminster, British Columbia | 3 |
| Downtown New Westminster | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1735677 — 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: New Westminster Context triple: [Burnaby, borders, New Westminster]
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A.
Richmond, British Columbia
Richmond, British Columbia is a coastal city in Metro Vancouver known for its diverse population, extensive Asian cultural influence, and role as home to Vancouver International Airport.
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B.
West Vancouver
West Vancouver is an affluent coastal district municipality in British Columbia, Canada, located on the North Shore of Burrard Inlet across from downtown Vancouver.
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C.
Squamish
Squamish is a town in southwestern British Columbia, Canada, known for its dramatic coastal mountain scenery and outdoor recreation opportunities.
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D.
Victoria, British Columbia
Victoria, British Columbia is the capital city of the Canadian province of British Columbia, known for its historic architecture, coastal scenery, and mild climate on the southern tip of Vancouver Island.
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E.
Kelowna
Kelowna is a mid-sized city in the Okanagan Valley of south-central British Columbia, Canada, known for its wineries, orchards, and lakeside recreation on Okanagan Lake.
- 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: New Westminster Target entity description: New Westminster is a historic city in the Metro Vancouver region of British Columbia, Canada, situated along the Fraser River.
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A.
Richmond, British Columbia
Richmond, British Columbia is a coastal city in Metro Vancouver known for its diverse population, extensive Asian cultural influence, and role as home to Vancouver International Airport.
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B.
West Vancouver
West Vancouver is an affluent coastal district municipality in British Columbia, Canada, located on the North Shore of Burrard Inlet across from downtown Vancouver.
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C.
Squamish
Squamish is a town in southwestern British Columbia, Canada, known for its dramatic coastal mountain scenery and outdoor recreation opportunities.
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D.
Victoria, British Columbia
Victoria, British Columbia is the capital city of the Canadian province of British Columbia, known for its historic architecture, coastal scenery, and mild climate on the southern tip of Vancouver Island.
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E.
Kelowna
Kelowna is a mid-sized city in the Okanagan Valley of south-central British Columbia, Canada, known for its wineries, orchards, and lakeside recreation on Okanagan Lake.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
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: New Westminster Description of subject: New Westminster is a historic city in the Metro Vancouver region of British Columbia, Canada, situated along the Fraser River.
Referenced by (39)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
subject linked to:
Metro Vancouver, Canada
linked to: New Westminster
linked to: New Westminster
linked to: New Westminster
subject linked to:
Richmond
linked to: New Westminster
linked to: New Westminster
linked to: New Westminster
linked to: New Westminster
linked to: New Westminster
linked to: New Westminster
linked to: New Westminster
linked to: New Westminster
linked to: New Westminster
linked to: New Westminster
subject linked to:
Fraser Cemetery, New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
linked to: New Westminster
subject linked to:
Fraser Cemetery, New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
subject linked to:
Fraser Cemetery, New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
linked to: New Westminster
subject linked to:
Fraser Cemetery, New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
linked to: New Westminster
subject linked to:
Fraser Cemetery, New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
subject linked to:
Kingsway