NB
E210027
NB is the official two-letter Canada Post abbreviation for the province of New Brunswick.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| NB canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1886766 — 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: NB Context triple: [New Brunswick, postalAbbreviation, NB]
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A.
BN
BN is the vehicle registration code used on license plates for the German city of Bonn.
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B.
NA
NA is the commonly used abbreviation for the National Assembly of Pakistan, the lower house of the country's bicameral parliament.
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C.
NE
NE is the two-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code assigned to Niger.
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D.
NE
NE is the common abbreviation for the New England Revolution, a professional Major League Soccer club based in the Greater Boston area.
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E.
NE
NE is the official two-letter United States Postal Service abbreviation used to designate the state of Nebraska.
- 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: NB Target entity description: NB is the official two-letter Canada Post abbreviation for the province of New Brunswick.
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A.
BN
BN is the vehicle registration code used on license plates for the German city of Bonn.
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B.
NA
NA is the commonly used abbreviation for the National Assembly of Pakistan, the lower house of the country's bicameral parliament.
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C.
NE
NE is the official two-letter United States Postal Service abbreviation used to designate the state of Nebraska.
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D.
NE
NE is the Swiss vehicle registration code for the canton of Neuchâtel.
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E.
NE
NE is the two-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code assigned to Niger.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (23)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Canada Post abbreviation
ⓘ
postal abbreviation ⓘ two-letter code ⓘ |
| adminSubdivisionOf | Canada ⓘ |
| appliesTo | mail addressing in Canada ⓘ |
| codeFor | province of New Brunswick ⓘ |
| codeLength | 2 letters ⓘ |
| codeStandard | Canada Post provincial abbreviations ⓘ |
| country | Canada ⓘ |
| isOfficial | true ⓘ |
| languageContext |
English
ⓘ
French ⓘ |
| letterCase | uppercase ⓘ |
| notToBeConfusedWith |
ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code "NB" (not assigned)
ⓘ
Norway vehicle registration code "N" ⓘ |
| regionType | province ⓘ |
| relatedCodeSystem | ISO 3166-2:CA ⓘ |
| represents | New Brunswick ⓘ |
| script | Latin alphabet ⓘ |
| usedBy | Canada Post ⓘ |
| usedIn |
address databases
ⓘ
postal addresses ⓘ sorting of mail ⓘ |
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: NB Description of subject: NB is the official two-letter Canada Post abbreviation for the province of New Brunswick.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
New Brunswick, Canada