Montreal public works department
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The Montreal public works department is a municipal agency responsible for maintaining and managing the city’s infrastructure, including roads, public spaces, and related services.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Montreal public works department canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5076939 — 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: Montreal public works department Context triple: [Anjou, hasPublicService, Montreal public works department]
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A.
Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, Montreal
Notre-Dame-de-Grâce is a primarily residential, historically anglophone neighborhood in western Montreal known for its diverse population, tree-lined streets, and mix of urban and suburban character.
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B.
Old Port of Montréal Corporation Inc.
Old Port of Montréal Corporation Inc. is a federal Crown corporation responsible for managing and developing Montréal’s historic Old Port waterfront as a recreational, cultural, and tourism destination.
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C.
Montreal-Nord
Montreal-Nord is a residential borough in the northeastern part of Montreal, Quebec, known for its cultural diversity and dense urban character.
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D.
Montréal-Est
Montréal-Est is a small industrial and residential municipality located on the eastern tip of the Island of Montreal in Quebec, Canada.
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E.
City of Montreal Council
The City of Montreal Council is the primary municipal legislative body responsible for making citywide policies, bylaws, and budget decisions for Montreal.
- 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: Montreal public works department Target entity description: The Montreal public works department is a municipal agency responsible for maintaining and managing the city’s infrastructure, including roads, public spaces, and related services.
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A.
Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, Montreal
Notre-Dame-de-Grâce is a primarily residential, historically anglophone neighborhood in western Montreal known for its diverse population, tree-lined streets, and mix of urban and suburban character.
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B.
Old Port of Montréal Corporation Inc.
Old Port of Montréal Corporation Inc. is a federal Crown corporation responsible for managing and developing Montréal’s historic Old Port waterfront as a recreational, cultural, and tourism destination.
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C.
Montreal-Nord
Montreal-Nord is a residential borough in the northeastern part of Montreal, Quebec, known for its cultural diversity and dense urban character.
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D.
Montréal-Est
Montréal-Est is a small industrial and residential municipality located on the eastern tip of the Island of Montreal in Quebec, Canada.
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E.
City of Montreal Council
The City of Montreal Council is the primary municipal legislative body responsible for making citywide policies, bylaws, and budget decisions for Montreal.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
government agency
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municipal public works department ⓘ public sector organization ⓘ |
| accountableTo |
City of Montreal administration
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linked to:
City of Montreal Council
|
| country | Canada ⓘ |
| employerType | civil service ⓘ |
| fundingSource | municipal budget ⓘ |
| governedBy |
City of Montreal municipal council
ⓘ
linked to:
City of Montreal Council
|
| hasObjective |
ensure safe and functional public infrastructure
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maintain quality of public spaces ⓘ |
| jurisdiction | Montreal ⓘ |
| languageOfWork |
English
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French ⓘ |
| levelOfGovernment | municipal government ⓘ |
| partOf |
City of Montreal
ⓘ
linked to:
Montreal
|
| responsibleFor |
city infrastructure maintenance
ⓘ
municipal signage installation and maintenance ⓘ public spaces maintenance ⓘ road maintenance ⓘ sidewalk maintenance ⓘ snow removal ⓘ stormwater drainage infrastructure ⓘ street cleaning ⓘ street lighting maintenance ⓘ urban infrastructure repairs ⓘ |
| sector | public works ⓘ |
| serviceArea |
public realm management
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urban infrastructure ⓘ |
| typeOfService |
infrastructure maintenance service
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municipal operations service ⓘ |
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: Montreal public works department Description of subject: The Montreal public works department is a municipal agency responsible for maintaining and managing the city’s infrastructure, including roads, public spaces, and related services.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.