Lubec Channel
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Lubec Channel is a tidal waterway separating parts of coastal Maine, USA, from New Brunswick, Canada, and forms part of the narrow passage connecting Passamaquoddy Bay to the Bay of Fundy.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lubec Channel canonical | 2 |
| Lubec Narrows | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8171774 — 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: Lubec Channel Context triple: [Mulholland Point Lighthouse, hasView, Lubec Channel]
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A.
Green Harbor River
Green Harbor River is a small coastal river in southeastern Massachusetts that flows through the town of Marshfield into the Atlantic Ocean.
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B.
East Channel
East Channel is a waterway or sub-basin within Detroit Harbor, likely serving as one of its primary navigational or geographic divisions.
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C.
North Shore Channel
The North Shore Channel is a man-made drainage and navigation canal in the Chicago metropolitan area that diverts water from the North Shore suburbs into the Chicago River system.
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D.
Buttermilk Channel, New York Harbor
Buttermilk Channel, New York Harbor, is a tidal strait in New York City separating Brooklyn from Governors Island and serving as a key navigational channel within the Upper New York Bay.
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E.
East Rockaway Channel
East Rockaway Channel is a tidal waterway in Nassau County, New York, that connects local bays and inlets near the village of East Rockaway and supports boating and marine activity.
- 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: Lubec Channel Target entity description: Lubec Channel is a tidal waterway separating parts of coastal Maine, USA, from New Brunswick, Canada, and forms part of the narrow passage connecting Passamaquoddy Bay to the Bay of Fundy.
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A.
Green Harbor River
Green Harbor River is a small coastal river in southeastern Massachusetts that flows through the town of Marshfield into the Atlantic Ocean.
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B.
East Channel
East Channel is a waterway or sub-basin within Detroit Harbor, likely serving as one of its primary navigational or geographic divisions.
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C.
North Shore Channel
The North Shore Channel is a man-made drainage and navigation canal in the Chicago metropolitan area that diverts water from the North Shore suburbs into the Chicago River system.
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D.
Buttermilk Channel, New York Harbor
Buttermilk Channel, New York Harbor, is a tidal strait in New York City separating Brooklyn from Governors Island and serving as a key navigational channel within the Upper New York Bay.
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E.
East Rockaway Channel
East Rockaway Channel is a tidal waterway in Nassau County, New York, that connects local bays and inlets near the village of East Rockaway and supports boating and marine activity.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
international strait
ⓘ
tidal channel ⓘ |
| adjacentToSettlement |
Campobello Island, New Brunswick
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Lubec, Maine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| borderedByIsland | Campobello Island NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| borderedByMainland | Maine mainland ⓘ |
| borderFormedBy | international maritime boundary between the United States and Canada ⓘ |
| connectsBodyOfWater |
Bay of Fundy
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Passamaquoddy Bay NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
Canada
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
narrow passage
ⓘ
strong tidal range ⓘ |
| hasCurrentType | tidal current ⓘ |
| hasHazard |
foggy conditions
ⓘ
strong currents ⓘ |
| hasJurisdiction |
Canadian Coast Guard
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
United States Coast Guard NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNavigationAid | Lubec Channel Light NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Gulf of Maine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeTerritory |
Charlotte County, New Brunswick
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Washington County, Maine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInOcean | Atlantic Ocean NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInProtectedAreaVicinity | Roosevelt Campobello International Park NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone |
Eastern Time Zone
ⓘ
UTC−05:00 ⓘ |
| near |
West Quoddy Head
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
easternmost point of the contiguous United States ⓘ |
| partOf |
Bay of Fundy system
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Passamaquoddy Bay NERFINISHED ⓘ Quoddy Narrows region NERFINISHED ⓘ border between the United States and Canada ⓘ |
| region |
Downeast Maine
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Maritime Provinces NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| separates |
Maine
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
New Brunswick NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedFor |
fishing
ⓘ
local navigation ⓘ recreational boating ⓘ |
| waterwayType | tidal waterway ⓘ |
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: Lubec Channel Description of subject: Lubec Channel is a tidal waterway separating parts of coastal Maine, USA, from New Brunswick, Canada, and forms part of the narrow passage connecting Passamaquoddy Bay to the Bay of Fundy.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Lubec Narrows