Saint-François River
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The Saint-François River is a major waterway in southern Quebec, Canada, that flows through several communities before emptying into the St. Lawrence River.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Saint-François River canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7133063 — 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: Saint-François River Context triple: [Odanak First Nation, locatedOn, Saint-François River]
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A.
Saint-Charles River
The Saint-Charles River is an urban waterway in Quebec City known for its historic role in the city’s development and its riverside parks and trails.
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B.
Chaudière River
The Chaudière River is a significant river in Quebec, Canada, known for flowing northward through the Beauce region before emptying into the Saint Lawrence River near Quebec City.
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C.
Rivière-Rouge
Rivière-Rouge is a small city in the Laurentides region of Quebec, Canada, known for its surrounding forests, lakes, and outdoor recreational activities.
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D.
Rivière des Rochers
Rivière des Rochers is a river in western Canada that drains Lake Athabasca and forms part of the Peace–Athabasca Delta system before joining the Slave River.
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E.
Montmorency River
The Montmorency River is a river in Quebec, Canada, known for forming the spectacular Montmorency Falls near Quebec City before flowing into the Saint Lawrence River.
- 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: Saint-François River Target entity description: The Saint-François River is a major waterway in southern Quebec, Canada, that flows through several communities before emptying into the St. Lawrence River.
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A.
Saint-Charles River
The Saint-Charles River is an urban waterway in Quebec City known for its historic role in the city’s development and its riverside parks and trails.
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B.
Chaudière River
The Chaudière River is a significant river in Quebec, Canada, known for flowing northward through the Beauce region before emptying into the Saint Lawrence River near Quebec City.
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C.
Rivière-Rouge
Rivière-Rouge is a small city in the Laurentides region of Quebec, Canada, known for its surrounding forests, lakes, and outdoor recreational activities.
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D.
Rivière des Rochers
Rivière des Rochers is a river in western Canada that drains Lake Athabasca and forms part of the Peace–Athabasca Delta system before joining the Slave River.
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E.
Montmorency River
The Montmorency River is a river in Quebec, Canada, known for forming the spectacular Montmorency Falls near Quebec City before flowing into the Saint Lawrence River.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | river ⓘ |
| basinCountry | Canada ⓘ |
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| country | Canada ⓘ |
| drainageBasin | St. Lawrence River basin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| flowsDirection | generally northward ⓘ |
| flowsThrough |
Drummondville
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Lennoxville NERFINISHED ⓘ Richmond, Quebec NERFINISHED ⓘ Sherbrooke NERFINISHED ⓘ Windsor, Quebec NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasEcosystemType | freshwater river ⓘ |
| hasLanguageOfToponym | French ⓘ |
| hasNavigation | locally navigable in some stretches ⓘ |
| hasUse |
hydroelectric power
ⓘ
recreation ⓘ water supply ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Quebec
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
eastern Canada ⓘ southern Quebec NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mouth | St. Lawrence River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mouthLocation | Quebec NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Saint Francis of Assisi (likely origin of name) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | St. Lawrence River watershed ⓘ |
| passesNear | Lake Saint-Pierre NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| province | Quebec NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region |
Centre-du-Québec
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Estrie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| tributaryOf | St. Lawrence River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Saint-François River Description of subject: The Saint-François River is a major waterway in southern Quebec, Canada, that flows through several communities before emptying into the St. Lawrence River.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.