Digby, Nova Scotia
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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.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Digby, Nova Scotia canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5688447 — 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: Digby, Nova Scotia Context triple: [Bay of Fundy, hasTownOnShore, Digby, Nova Scotia]
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A.
Clare, Nova Scotia
Clare, Nova Scotia is a coastal municipality in southwestern Nova Scotia known as a historic center of Acadian culture and French-language heritage.
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B.
Wallace, Nova Scotia
Wallace, Nova Scotia is a small rural community on the Northumberland Strait in Cumberland County, known historically for its sandstone quarries and coastal scenery.
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C.
Greenwood, Nova Scotia
Greenwood, Nova Scotia is a small community in Kings County known for its Royal Canadian Air Force base and rural village setting in the Annapolis Valley.
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D.
Yarmouth, Nova Scotia
Yarmouth, Nova Scotia is a coastal town in southwestern Nova Scotia known historically for its fishing, shipbuilding, and ferry connections to New England.
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E.
Sydney, Nova Scotia
Sydney, Nova Scotia is a major port city on Cape Breton Island in eastern Canada, serving as an important commercial and transportation hub on the Atlantic coast.
- 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: Digby, Nova Scotia Target entity description: 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.
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A.
Clare, Nova Scotia
Clare, Nova Scotia is a coastal municipality in southwestern Nova Scotia known as a historic center of Acadian culture and French-language heritage.
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B.
Wallace, Nova Scotia
Wallace, Nova Scotia is a small rural community on the Northumberland Strait in Cumberland County, known historically for its sandstone quarries and coastal scenery.
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C.
Greenwood, Nova Scotia
Greenwood, Nova Scotia is a small community in Kings County known for its Royal Canadian Air Force base and rural village setting in the Annapolis Valley.
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D.
Yarmouth, Nova Scotia
Yarmouth, Nova Scotia is a coastal town in southwestern Nova Scotia known historically for its fishing, shipbuilding, and ferry connections to New England.
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E.
Sydney, Nova Scotia
Sydney, Nova Scotia is a major port city on Cape Breton Island in eastern Canada, serving as an important commercial and transportation hub on the Atlantic coast.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | town ⓘ |
| administrativeStatus | incorporated town ⓘ |
| areaCode |
782
ⓘ
902 ⓘ |
| coastalTown | true ⓘ |
| country | Canada ⓘ |
| elevation | sea level ⓘ |
| ferryConnectsTo | Saint John, New Brunswick NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| foundedAs | Loyalist settlement ⓘ |
| governingBody | Town of Digby Council NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasBodyOfWater | Annapolis Basin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasClimate | humid continental climate ⓘ |
| hasEconomicSector |
retail trade
ⓘ
service sector ⓘ |
| hasEvent | Digby Scallop Days NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasHarbourFeature | tidal harbour ⓘ |
| hasHighwayAccess | Highway 101 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasIndustry |
fishing
ⓘ
tourism ⓘ |
| hasMarina | Digby Marina NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNearbyAirport | Digby/Annapolis Regional Airport NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNearbyBodyOfWater | Digby Gut NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPort | Digby Harbour NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTransportation | Digby–Saint John ferry NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isCountySeatOf | Digby County, Nova Scotia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Bay of Fundy tides
ⓘ
scallop fishing industry ⓘ scenic coastal views ⓘ seafood ⓘ |
| languageMajority | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Digby County, Nova Scotia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | western Nova Scotia ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Bay of Fundy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedWestOf | Halifax, Nova Scotia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Admiral Robert Digby NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| postalCodePrefix | B0V ⓘ |
| primaryEconomicActivity | commercial scallop fishing ⓘ |
| province | Nova Scotia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | Fundy Shore NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timeZone | Atlantic Time Zone NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timeZoneDST | Atlantic Daylight Time NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| tourismAttraction |
seafood restaurants
ⓘ
waterfront boardwalk ⓘ whale watching ⓘ |
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: Digby, Nova Scotia Description of subject: 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.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.