Port of Sept-Îles
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The Port of Sept-Îles is a major deep-water seaport on the Gulf of St. Lawrence in Quebec, Canada, known as one of North America’s leading hubs for iron ore and bulk cargo exports.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Port of Sept-Îles canonical | 5 |
| Port of Sept-Îles Authority | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7581899 — 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: Port of Sept-Îles Context triple: [Great Lakes port system, hasPart, Port of Sept-Îles]
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A.
Port of Quebec
The Port of Quebec is a major Canadian seaport and historic maritime hub located in Quebec City along the Saint Lawrence River.
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B.
Port of Trois-Rivières
The Port of Trois-Rivières is a key commercial and industrial port facility on the St. Lawrence River in Quebec, Canada, serving as an important hub for regional and international maritime trade.
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C.
Port of Saint John
The Port of Saint John is a major Atlantic seaport in New Brunswick, Canada, serving as a key hub for cargo, cruise, and regional maritime trade.
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D.
Port of Montreal
The Port of Montreal is a major international shipping hub on the St. Lawrence River that serves as one of Canada’s busiest gateways for container and bulk cargo trade.
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E.
Port of St. John’s
The Port of St. John’s is a major Atlantic Canadian harbor and marine services hub located in St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador, supporting commercial shipping, offshore energy, and fishing activities.
- 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: Port of Sept-Îles Target entity description: The Port of Sept-Îles is a major deep-water seaport on the Gulf of St. Lawrence in Quebec, Canada, known as one of North America’s leading hubs for iron ore and bulk cargo exports.
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A.
Port of Quebec
The Port of Quebec is a major Canadian seaport and historic maritime hub located in Quebec City along the Saint Lawrence River.
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B.
Port of Trois-Rivières
The Port of Trois-Rivières is a key commercial and industrial port facility on the St. Lawrence River in Quebec, Canada, serving as an important hub for regional and international maritime trade.
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C.
Port of Saint John
The Port of Saint John is a major Atlantic seaport in New Brunswick, Canada, serving as a key hub for cargo, cruise, and regional maritime trade.
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D.
Port of Montreal
The Port of Montreal is a major international shipping hub on the St. Lawrence River that serves as one of Canada’s busiest gateways for container and bulk cargo trade.
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E.
Port of St. John’s
The Port of St. John’s is a major Atlantic Canadian harbor and marine services hub located in St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador, supporting commercial shipping, offshore energy, and fishing activities.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | seaport ⓘ |
| climateInfluence | Gulf of St. Lawrence maritime climate ⓘ |
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| country | Canada ⓘ |
| governingBody |
Port of Sept-Îles Authority
ⓘ
linked to:
Port of Sept-Îles
|
| governingBodyType | Canadian federal port authority ⓘ |
| hasFacility |
railway connections to mining sites
ⓘ
ship-loading conveyors ⓘ storage yards for bulk materials ⓘ tank farms for liquid bulk ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
ice-free harbour (most of the year)
ⓘ
year-round deep-water access ⓘ |
| hasHarbourNameOrigin | named after the town of Sept-Îles ⓘ |
| hasNavigationAid |
icebreaking services in winter
ⓘ
pilotage services ⓘ |
| hasTerminal |
bulk cargo terminal
ⓘ
iron ore terminal ⓘ multi-user deep-water dock ⓘ |
| jurisdiction |
Government of Canada
ⓘ
linked to:
Canadian federal government (Ottawa)
|
| knownFor |
bulk cargo exports
ⓘ
iron ore exports ⓘ |
| languageOfLocality | French ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Sept-Îles, Quebec
ⓘ
linked to:
Sept-Îles
|
| locatedInAdministrativeTerritory |
Province of Quebec
ⓘ
linked to:
province of Quebec
|
| locatedOn | Gulf of St. Lawrence ⓘ |
| majorFunction |
export hub for iron ore from Quebec and Labrador
ⓘ
transshipment hub for bulk cargo ⓘ |
| nearbyCity | Sept-Îles ⓘ |
| openedToCommercialTraffic | 20th century ⓘ |
| portType |
bulk cargo port
ⓘ
commercial port ⓘ industrial port ⓘ |
| primaryCargo |
alumina
ⓘ
bulk commodities ⓘ grain ⓘ iron ore ⓘ petroleum products ⓘ |
| regionServed |
Côte-Nord region of Quebec
ⓘ
Labrador mining region ⓘ
linked to:
Labrador West region
|
| servesIndustry |
aluminum industry
ⓘ
mining industry ⓘ steel industry ⓘ |
| strategicImportance |
major export gateway on the Gulf of St. Lawrence
ⓘ
one of North America’s leading iron ore ports ⓘ |
| timeZone | Eastern Time Zone ⓘ |
| UNLOCODE | CASIS ⓘ |
| waterway |
St. Lawrence Seaway system
ⓘ
linked to:
Great Lakes–St. Lawrence system
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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: Port of Sept-Îles Description of subject: The Port of Sept-Îles is a major deep-water seaport on the Gulf of St. Lawrence in Quebec, Canada, known as one of North America’s leading hubs for iron ore and bulk cargo exports.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Port of Sept-Îles