Portland Canal
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Portland Canal is a long, narrow fjord forming part of the border between southeastern Alaska in the United States and British Columbia in Canada, extending inland from the Pacific coast.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Portland Canal canonical | 2 |
| Portland Canal region | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T20604660 — 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: Portland Canal Context triple: [Portland Inlet, connectsTo, Portland Canal]
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A.
Pembroke Canal
Pembroke Canal is a waterway in Pembroke Parish, Bermuda, historically used to improve local transportation and drainage within the parish.
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B.
Hamilton Canal
Hamilton Canal is a historic Dutch-era waterway in Sri Lanka that links the coastal town of Negombo with other parts of the western canal network, once used for transporting goods and people.
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C.
Ellesmere Canal
The Ellesmere Canal is a historic English waterway that formed part of an ambitious late-18th-century canal network linking the industrial Midlands to the River Mersey and the Welsh border regions.
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D.
Pocklington Canal
Pocklington Canal is a restored 19th-century navigation and wildlife-rich waterway in Yorkshire, England, valued for both boating and nature conservation.
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E.
St Helens Canal
St Helens Canal is a historic industrial waterway in northwest England that once served as an important transport route for coal and other goods during the Industrial Revolution.
- 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: Portland Canal Target entity description: Portland Canal is a long, narrow fjord forming part of the border between southeastern Alaska in the United States and British Columbia in Canada, extending inland from the Pacific coast.
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A.
Pembroke Canal
Pembroke Canal is a waterway in Pembroke Parish, Bermuda, historically used to improve local transportation and drainage within the parish.
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B.
Hamilton Canal
Hamilton Canal is a historic Dutch-era waterway in Sri Lanka that links the coastal town of Negombo with other parts of the western canal network, once used for transporting goods and people.
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C.
Ellesmere Canal
The Ellesmere Canal is a historic English waterway that formed part of an ambitious late-18th-century canal network linking the industrial Midlands to the River Mersey and the Welsh border regions.
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D.
Pocklington Canal
Pocklington Canal is a restored 19th-century navigation and wildlife-rich waterway in Yorkshire, England, valued for both boating and nature conservation.
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E.
St Helens Canal
St Helens Canal is a historic industrial waterway in northwest England that once served as an important transport route for coal and other goods during the Industrial Revolution.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Portland Canal