Shearwater, Nova Scotia
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Shearwater, Nova Scotia is a small community near Dartmouth in the Halifax Regional Municipality, best known for its long-standing military aviation presence and association with Canadian Forces Base Shearwater.
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| Shearwater, Nova Scotia canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T18664775 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
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Target entity: Shearwater, Nova Scotia Context triple: [CFB Shearwater, namedAfter, Shearwater, Nova Scotia]
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Caribou, Nova Scotia
Caribou, Nova Scotia is a small coastal community in Pictou County best known as the mainland terminal for the ferry service to Prince Edward Island.
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Eastern Shore, Nova Scotia
Eastern Shore, Nova Scotia is a scenic coastal region in eastern Halifax Regional Municipality known for its rugged Atlantic shoreline, fishing communities, and popular beaches and wilderness areas.
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C.
Portapique, Nova Scotia
Portapique, Nova Scotia is a small rural community on the north shore of the Bay of Fundy that gained international attention as the starting point of the 2020 Nova Scotia mass shooting.
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D.
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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Digby, Nova Scotia
Digby, Nova Scotia is a small coastal town in western Nova Scotia known for its scallop fishing industry and scenic location on the Bay of Fundy.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Shearwater, Nova Scotia Target entity description: Shearwater, Nova Scotia is a small community near Dartmouth in the Halifax Regional Municipality, best known for its long-standing military aviation presence and association with Canadian Forces Base Shearwater.
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A.
Caribou, Nova Scotia
Caribou, Nova Scotia is a small coastal community in Pictou County best known as the mainland terminal for the ferry service to Prince Edward Island.
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B.
Eastern Shore, Nova Scotia
Eastern Shore, Nova Scotia is a scenic coastal region in eastern Halifax Regional Municipality known for its rugged Atlantic shoreline, fishing communities, and popular beaches and wilderness areas.
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C.
Portapique, Nova Scotia
Portapique, Nova Scotia is a small rural community on the north shore of the Bay of Fundy that gained international attention as the starting point of the 2020 Nova Scotia mass shooting.
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D.
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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E.
Digby, Nova Scotia
Digby, Nova Scotia is a small coastal town in western Nova Scotia known for its scallop fishing industry and scenic location on the Bay of Fundy.
- F. None of above. chosen
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.