Shag Harbour, Nova Scotia, Canada
E1034673
UFO sighting
coastal settlement
community
fishing village
museum
unidentified flying object incident
Shag Harbour, Nova Scotia, Canada is a small coastal fishing community best known as the site of a famous 1967 UFO incident that remains a notable case in ufology.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Shag Harbour, Nova Scotia, Canada canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13349933 — 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: Shag Harbour, Nova Scotia, Canada Context triple: [1967 Shag Harbour incident, location, Shag Harbour, Nova Scotia, Canada]
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A.
Cole Harbour, Nova Scotia, Canada
Cole Harbour, Nova Scotia, Canada is a suburban community near Halifax best known as the hometown of NHL superstar Sidney Crosby.
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B.
Port Hawkesbury, Nova Scotia
Port Hawkesbury is a small town on Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia, Canada, known as a regional service and transportation hub with a strong industrial and marine economy.
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C.
Baddeck, Nova Scotia
Baddeck, Nova Scotia is a small village on Cape Breton Island known as a scenic Bras d'Or Lake resort community and historic center of Alexander Graham Bell’s life and work.
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D.
Harbour Grace, Newfoundland
Harbour Grace, Newfoundland is a historic coastal town on Conception Bay known as one of the oldest settlements in North America and an important early fishing and maritime center.
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E.
Parrsboro, Nova Scotia
Parrsboro, Nova Scotia is a small coastal town known for its dramatic tides, fossil-rich cliffs, and scenic views along the shores of the Bay of Fundy.
- 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: Shag Harbour, Nova Scotia, Canada Target entity description: Shag Harbour, Nova Scotia, Canada is a small coastal fishing community best known as the site of a famous 1967 UFO incident that remains a notable case in ufology.
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A.
Cole Harbour, Nova Scotia, Canada
Cole Harbour, Nova Scotia, Canada is a suburban community near Halifax best known as the hometown of NHL superstar Sidney Crosby.
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B.
Port Hawkesbury, Nova Scotia
Port Hawkesbury is a small town on Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia, Canada, known as a regional service and transportation hub with a strong industrial and marine economy.
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C.
Baddeck, Nova Scotia
Baddeck, Nova Scotia is a small village on Cape Breton Island known as a scenic Bras d'Or Lake resort community and historic center of Alexander Graham Bell’s life and work.
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D.
Harbour Grace, Newfoundland
Harbour Grace, Newfoundland is a historic coastal town on Conception Bay known as one of the oldest settlements in North America and an important early fishing and maritime center.
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E.
Parrsboro, Nova Scotia
Parrsboro, Nova Scotia is a small coastal town known for its dramatic tides, fossil-rich cliffs, and scenic views along the shores of the Bay of Fundy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
UFO sighting
ⓘ
coastal settlement ⓘ community ⓘ fishing village ⓘ museum ⓘ unidentified flying object incident ⓘ |
| classifiedAs | unsolved case ⓘ |
| coastType | rocky coast ⓘ |
| country |
Canada
ⓘ
Canada ⓘ |
| date | 1967-10-04 ⓘ |
| dedicatedTo | Shag Harbour UFO incident NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| followedBy | official search and rescue operation ⓘ |
| hasAreaCode |
782
ⓘ
902 ⓘ |
| hasCoastalFeature | natural harbour ⓘ |
| hasEconomicActivity | inshore fishing ⓘ |
| hasEvent | Shag Harbour UFO incident NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNameOrigin | named after cormorants known as shags ⓘ |
| hasPrimaryIndustry |
fishing
ⓘ
lobster fishery ⓘ |
| hasTourismAttraction | Shag Harbour UFO Centre NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTransportation | Nova Scotia Trunk 3 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| investigatedBy |
Canadian Coast Guard
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Royal Canadian Mounted Police NERFINISHED ⓘ Royal Canadian Navy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
1967 UFO incident
ⓘ
coastal fishing industry ⓘ lobster fishing ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Municipality of the District of Barrington
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Shag Harbour, Nova Scotia, Canada NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOn |
Atlantic Ocean
ⓘ
Nova Scotia South Shore NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nearbyCommunity |
Barrington Passage
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Woods Harbour NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableIn | ufology ⓘ |
| occurredIn | Shag Harbour, Nova Scotia, Canada NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Atlantic Canada NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| phenomenonType | unidentified flying object over water ⓘ |
| province | Nova Scotia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | Shelburne County NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timeZone | Atlantic Time Zone NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timeZoneDST | Atlantic Daylight Time NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| witnessedBy |
airline pilots
ⓘ
multiple local residents ⓘ |
| year | 1967 ⓘ |
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: Shag Harbour, Nova Scotia, Canada Description of subject: Shag Harbour, Nova Scotia, Canada is a small coastal fishing community best known as the site of a famous 1967 UFO incident that remains a notable case in ufology.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.