Sault Ste. Marie Canal Stores Building
E170220
The Sault Ste. Marie Canal Stores Building is a historic structure in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, that once served as a key storage and support facility for operations along the Sault Ste. Marie Canal.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Sault Ste. Marie Canal Stores Building canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1477018 — 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: Sault Ste. Marie Canal Stores Building Context triple: [Sault Ste. Marie Canal, hasStructure, Sault Ste. Marie Canal Stores Building]
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A.
Sault Ste. Marie Canal Superintendent’s Residence
The Sault Ste. Marie Canal Superintendent’s Residence is a historic house in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, built for the canal’s chief administrator and recognized today as a heritage building associated with Canada’s canal-era infrastructure.
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B.
Marquette Building
The Marquette Building is a landmark early Chicago School skyscraper in downtown Chicago, celebrated for its steel-frame construction and richly ornamented terra-cotta and mosaic detailing.
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C.
The Great Northern Warehouse
The Great Northern Warehouse is a historic former railway goods warehouse in Manchester that has been converted into a mixed-use leisure, retail, and office complex.
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D.
Smiths Falls Locks
Smiths Falls Locks are a historic set of canal locks in Smiths Falls, Ontario, that form a key part of the Rideau Canal’s navigation and heritage infrastructure.
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E.
Port of Marquette
The Port of Marquette is a commercial harbor on Lake Superior that serves as a key shipping point for bulk commodities in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.
- 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: Sault Ste. Marie Canal Stores Building Target entity description: The Sault Ste. Marie Canal Stores Building is a historic structure in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, that once served as a key storage and support facility for operations along the Sault Ste. Marie Canal.
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A.
Sault Ste. Marie Canal Superintendent’s Residence
The Sault Ste. Marie Canal Superintendent’s Residence is a historic house in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, built for the canal’s chief administrator and recognized today as a heritage building associated with Canada’s canal-era infrastructure.
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B.
Marquette Building
The Marquette Building is a landmark early Chicago School skyscraper in downtown Chicago, celebrated for its steel-frame construction and richly ornamented terra-cotta and mosaic detailing.
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C.
The Great Northern Warehouse
The Great Northern Warehouse is a historic former railway goods warehouse in Manchester that has been converted into a mixed-use leisure, retail, and office complex.
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D.
Smiths Falls Locks
Smiths Falls Locks are a historic set of canal locks in Smiths Falls, Ontario, that form a key part of the Rideau Canal’s navigation and heritage infrastructure.
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E.
Port of Marquette
The Port of Marquette is a commercial harbor on Lake Superior that serves as a key shipping point for bulk commodities in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
canal support building
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historic building ⓘ |
| architecturalType | industrial warehouse ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Sault Ste. Marie Canal ⓘ |
| category |
canal infrastructure
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heritage building in Ontario ⓘ |
| country | Canada ⓘ |
| function |
storage facility
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support facility for canal operations ⓘ |
| hasSignificance |
industrial heritage
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transportation history of Sault Ste. Marie ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | historic structure ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Canada
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Ontario ⓘ Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario ⓘ
linked to:
Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada
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| locatedNear |
Sault Ste. Marie Canal locks
ⓘ
linked to:
Sault Ste. Marie Canal
St. Marys River ⓘ |
| partOf |
Sault Ste. Marie Canal complex
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linked to:
Sault Ste. Marie Canal
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| usedFor |
storage of materials for canal operations
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support of Sault Ste. Marie Canal maintenance ⓘ |
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: Sault Ste. Marie Canal Stores Building Description of subject: The Sault Ste. Marie Canal Stores Building is a historic structure in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, that once served as a key storage and support facility for operations along the Sault Ste. Marie Canal.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.