Boisbriand
E411972
Boisbriand is a suburban city in southwestern Quebec, Canada, located northwest of Montreal along the Rivière des Mille Îles.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Boisbriand canonical | 11 |
| Boisbriand, Quebec | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4074128 — 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: Boisbriand Context triple: [North Shore municipalities, hasMunicipality, Boisbriand]
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A.
Trois-Rivières
Trois-Rivières is a historic industrial and cultural city in the Canadian province of Quebec, located roughly midway between Montreal and Quebec City.
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B.
Lévis
Lévis is a city located on the south shore of the St. Lawrence River in Quebec, Canada, directly across from Quebec City.
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C.
Bécancour, Quebec
Bécancour, Quebec is a small industrial and agricultural city on the south shore of the Saint Lawrence River in central Quebec, known for its industrial park and proximity to Trois-Rivières.
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D.
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.
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E.
Mirabel, Quebec
Mirabel, Quebec is a city in southwestern Quebec, Canada, known for its large rural territory and as the former site of Montréal–Mirabel International Airport.
- 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: Boisbriand Target entity description: Boisbriand is a suburban city in southwestern Quebec, Canada, located northwest of Montreal along the Rivière des Mille Îles.
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A.
Trois-Rivières
Trois-Rivières is a historic industrial and cultural city in the Canadian province of Quebec, located roughly midway between Montreal and Quebec City.
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B.
Lévis
Lévis is a city located on the south shore of the St. Lawrence River in Quebec, Canada, directly across from Quebec City.
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C.
Bécancour, Quebec
Bécancour, Quebec is a small industrial and agricultural city on the south shore of the Saint Lawrence River in central Quebec, known for its industrial park and proximity to Trois-Rivières.
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D.
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.
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E.
Mirabel, Quebec
Mirabel, Quebec is a city in southwestern Quebec, Canada, known for its large rural territory and as the former site of Montréal–Mirabel International Airport.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
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: Boisbriand Description of subject: Boisbriand is a suburban city in southwestern Quebec, Canada, located northwest of Montreal along the Rivière des Mille Îles.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Boisbriand
linked to: Boisbriand
subject linked to:
Rivière des Mille Îles (northern boundary)