St. Lawrence River ports
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St. Lawrence River ports are a network of Canadian maritime facilities along the St. Lawrence River that serve as major hubs for inland shipping, international trade, and access to the Atlantic Ocean.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Greater Montreal waterway network | 1 |
| Saint Lawrence maritime corridor | 1 |
| St. Lawrence River ports canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11471129 — 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: St. Lawrence River ports Context triple: [Quebec North Shore and Labrador Railway, connectsTo, St. Lawrence River ports]
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A.
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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B.
Port of Baie-Comeau
The Port of Baie-Comeau is a commercial deep-water port on the north shore of the St. Lawrence River in Quebec, Canada, serving regional industries and maritime transport.
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C.
South Shore of the Saint Lawrence River
The South Shore of the Saint Lawrence River is the stretch of communities and landscapes lying along the river’s southern bank in Quebec, opposite the more industrialized and urbanized North Shore.
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D.
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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E.
Port of Thunder Bay
The Port of Thunder Bay is a major Canadian inland port on Lake Superior that serves as a key hub for grain and bulk cargo shipments between the Prairies and international markets.
- 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: St. Lawrence River ports Target entity description: St. Lawrence River ports are a network of Canadian maritime facilities along the St. Lawrence River that serve as major hubs for inland shipping, international trade, and access to the Atlantic Ocean.
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A.
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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B.
Port of Baie-Comeau
The Port of Baie-Comeau is a commercial deep-water port on the north shore of the St. Lawrence River in Quebec, Canada, serving regional industries and maritime transport.
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C.
South Shore of the Saint Lawrence River
The South Shore of the Saint Lawrence River is the stretch of communities and landscapes lying along the river’s southern bank in Quebec, opposite the more industrialized and urbanized North Shore.
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D.
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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E.
Port of Thunder Bay
The Port of Thunder Bay is a major Canadian inland port on Lake Superior that serves as a key hub for grain and bulk cargo shipments between the Prairies and international markets.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
maritime facility system
ⓘ
port network ⓘ transport infrastructure ⓘ |
| connectedTo |
Great Lakes ports
ⓘ
linked to:
Great Lakes port system
highway networks ⓘ rail networks ⓘ |
| connectsTo | Atlantic Ocean ⓘ |
| country | Canada ⓘ |
| economicRole |
support Canadian exports
ⓘ
support Canadian imports ⓘ support agricultural exports ⓘ support manufacturing supply chains ⓘ support mining and resource exports ⓘ |
| governedBy |
Canadian federal government
ⓘ
linked to:
Government of Canada
|
| hasPart |
Port of Baie-Comeau
ⓘ
Port of Bécancour ⓘ Port of Chandler ⓘ Port of Cornwall ⓘ Port of Gaspé ⓘ Port of Gros-Cacouna ⓘ Port of Hamilton-Oshawa ⓘ
linked to:
Port of Hamilton
Port of Johnstown ⓘ Port of Lévis ⓘ Port of Matane ⓘ Port of Montreal ⓘ Port of Quebec ⓘ Port of Saguenay ⓘ Port of Sept-Îles ⓘ Port of Sorel-Tracy ⓘ Port of Trois-Rivières ⓘ Port of Valleyfield ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Canada
ⓘ
St. Lawrence River ⓘ
linked to:
Saint Lawrence River
|
| navigationalConstraint | seasonal ice conditions ⓘ |
| operatedUnder | Canada Marine Act ⓘ |
| partOf |
St. Lawrence Seaway
ⓘ
linked to:
Great Lakes waterway
|
| regulatedBy | Transport Canada ⓘ |
| supportsVesselType |
bulk carriers
ⓘ
container ships ⓘ cruise ships ⓘ lakers ⓘ ocean-going ships ⓘ |
| usedFor |
bulk cargo handling
ⓘ
container shipping ⓘ cruise traffic ⓘ ferry services ⓘ general cargo handling ⓘ inland shipping ⓘ international trade ⓘ |
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: St. Lawrence River ports Description of subject: St. Lawrence River ports are a network of Canadian maritime facilities along the St. Lawrence River that serve as major hubs for inland shipping, international trade, and access to the Atlantic Ocean.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Rivière des Mille Îles (northern boundary)
linked to: St. Lawrence River ports
linked to: St. Lawrence River ports