Pilotage Act
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The Pilotage Act is a Canadian federal law that governs compulsory marine pilotage services to ensure the safe navigation of ships in Canadian waters.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Pilotage Act canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8827830 — 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: Pilotage Act Context triple: [Canada Marine Act, relatedTo, Pilotage Act]
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A.
Navigation Act 1849
The Navigation Act 1849 was a British law that effectively ended the traditional Navigation Acts system by abolishing many protectionist restrictions on foreign shipping and opening British trade to greater international competition.
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B.
Navigation Act 1786
The Navigation Act 1786 was a late 18th-century British mercantile law regulating maritime trade and shipping, forming part of the broader Navigation Acts system that controlled colonial commerce in favor of Britain.
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C.
Navigation Acts (England)
The Navigation Acts were a series of 17th- and 18th-century English laws that regulated colonial trade to strengthen English shipping and ensure that commerce with its colonies benefited England.
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D.
Harbours Act (United Kingdom)
The Harbours Act (United Kingdom) is a key piece of UK legislation that regulates the establishment, governance, and operation of harbours and port authorities across the country.
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E.
Merchant Shipping Act
The Merchant Shipping Act is a key piece of United Kingdom legislation that regulates British merchant vessels, their registration, safety standards, and the rules under which they operate at sea.
- 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: Pilotage Act Target entity description: The Pilotage Act is a Canadian federal law that governs compulsory marine pilotage services to ensure the safe navigation of ships in Canadian waters.
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A.
Navigation Act 1849
The Navigation Act 1849 was a British law that effectively ended the traditional Navigation Acts system by abolishing many protectionist restrictions on foreign shipping and opening British trade to greater international competition.
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B.
Navigation Act 1786
The Navigation Act 1786 was a late 18th-century British mercantile law regulating maritime trade and shipping, forming part of the broader Navigation Acts system that controlled colonial commerce in favor of Britain.
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C.
Navigation Acts (England)
The Navigation Acts were a series of 17th- and 18th-century English laws that regulated colonial trade to strengthen English shipping and ensure that commerce with its colonies benefited England.
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D.
Harbours Act (United Kingdom)
The Harbours Act (United Kingdom) is a key piece of UK legislation that regulates the establishment, governance, and operation of harbours and port authorities across the country.
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E.
Merchant Shipping Act
The Merchant Shipping Act is a key piece of United Kingdom legislation that regulates British merchant vessels, their registration, safety standards, and the rules under which they operate at sea.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Act of Parliament of Canada
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Canadian federal statute ⓘ |
| appliesTo |
Canadian waters
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compulsory marine pilotage ⓘ marine navigation safety ⓘ |
| bindingOn |
licensed marine pilots in Canada
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pilotage authorities in Canada ⓘ ships subject to compulsory pilotage in Canada ⓘ |
| concerns |
prevention of marine accidents
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protection of the marine environment ⓘ safety of navigation in Canadian waters ⓘ |
| country | Canada ⓘ |
| defines |
duties of licensed pilots
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obligations of shipowners regarding pilotage ⓘ offences related to pilotage ⓘ penalties related to pilotage offences ⓘ powers of pilotage authorities ⓘ |
| enactedBy | Parliament of Canada ⓘ |
| enforcedBy |
Canadian federal authorities
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pilotage authorities established under the Act ⓘ |
| hasLanguageVersion |
English
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French ⓘ |
| isPartOf |
Canadian maritime regulatory framework
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Canadian transportation legislation ⓘ |
| jurisdiction | federal jurisdiction of Canada ⓘ |
| legalArea |
maritime law
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public law ⓘ transportation law ⓘ |
| purpose |
to ensure the safe navigation of ships in Canadian waters
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to regulate compulsory pilotage services ⓘ |
| regulates |
administration of pilotage services
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certification of marine pilots ⓘ compulsory pilotage areas ⓘ licensing of marine pilots ⓘ pilotage authorities in Canada ⓘ tariffs for pilotage services ⓘ |
| subjectMatter |
marine transportation
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maritime safety ⓘ shipping ⓘ |
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: Pilotage Act Description of subject: The Pilotage Act is a Canadian federal law that governs compulsory marine pilotage services to ensure the safe navigation of ships in Canadian waters.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.