Madoc, Ontario
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Madoc, Ontario is a small rural community in eastern Ontario, Canada, known historically for mining and as a service centre for the surrounding agricultural region.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Madoc, Ontario canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9089466 — 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: Madoc, Ontario Context triple: [Hastings County, hasSettlement, Madoc, Ontario]
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A.
Greater Madawaska, Ontario
Greater Madawaska, Ontario is a rural township in eastern Ontario known for its forests, lakes, and outdoor recreation opportunities in the Ottawa Valley region.
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B.
Waupoos, Ontario
Waupoos, Ontario is a small rural community in Prince Edward County known for its orchards, wineries, and scenic waterfront along the Bay of Quinte.
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C.
Bancroft, Ontario
Bancroft, Ontario is a small town in eastern Ontario known as a regional service and tourism hub for the surrounding cottage country and mineral-rich Canadian Shield.
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D.
Gananoque, Ontario
Gananoque, Ontario is a small Canadian town on the St. Lawrence River known as a gateway to the Thousand Islands region and a popular destination for boating and tourism.
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E.
Petawawa, Ontario
Petawawa, Ontario is a town in eastern Ontario best known for hosting Canadian Forces Base Petawawa, one of Canada’s largest military installations.
- 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: Madoc, Ontario Target entity description: Madoc, Ontario is a small rural community in eastern Ontario, Canada, known historically for mining and as a service centre for the surrounding agricultural region.
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A.
Greater Madawaska, Ontario
Greater Madawaska, Ontario is a rural township in eastern Ontario known for its forests, lakes, and outdoor recreation opportunities in the Ottawa Valley region.
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B.
Waupoos, Ontario
Waupoos, Ontario is a small rural community in Prince Edward County known for its orchards, wineries, and scenic waterfront along the Bay of Quinte.
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C.
Bancroft, Ontario
Bancroft, Ontario is a small town in eastern Ontario known as a regional service and tourism hub for the surrounding cottage country and mineral-rich Canadian Shield.
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D.
Gananoque, Ontario
Gananoque, Ontario is a small Canadian town on the St. Lawrence River known as a gateway to the Thousand Islands region and a popular destination for boating and tourism.
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E.
Petawawa, Ontario
Petawawa, Ontario is a town in eastern Ontario best known for hosting Canadian Forces Base Petawawa, one of Canada’s largest military installations.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
rural community
ⓘ
unincorporated community ⓘ |
| climate | humid continental climate ⓘ |
| country | Canada ⓘ |
| economicActivity |
retail services
ⓘ
tourism services ⓘ |
| governingBody | Municipality of Centre Hastings ⓘ |
| hasAreaCode |
343
ⓘ
613 ⓘ |
| hasPublicService |
community centre
ⓘ
elementary school ⓘ public library ⓘ secondary school ⓘ |
| historicalEconomicActivity |
agriculture
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mining ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeEntity | Hastings County NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInCountrySubdivision |
eastern Ontario, Canada
ⓘ
linked to:
Eastern Ontario
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| locatedInRegion |
eastern Ontario
ⓘ
linked to:
Eastern Ontario
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| locatedInTimeZone | Eastern Time Zone ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Moira River ⓘ |
| locatedNorthOf | Belleville, Ontario ⓘ |
| locatedSouthOf | Bancroft, Ontario ⓘ |
| partOf | Municipality of Centre Hastings ⓘ |
| postalCodePrefix | K0K ⓘ |
| province | Ontario ⓘ |
| roadAccess |
Ontario Highway 62
ⓘ
Ontario Highway 7 ⓘ |
| role | service centre for surrounding agricultural region ⓘ |
| timeZoneDST |
Eastern Daylight Time
ⓘ
linked to:
Eastern Time Zone
|
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: Madoc, Ontario Description of subject: Madoc, Ontario is a small rural community in eastern Ontario, Canada, known historically for mining and as a service centre for the surrounding agricultural region.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.