First Narrows
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First Narrows is the narrow western entrance to Vancouver’s Burrard Inlet, spanned by the Lions Gate Bridge and serving as a key shipping and transportation corridor.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| First Narrows canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8394133 — 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: First Narrows Context triple: [Burrard Inlet, hasFeature, First Narrows]
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A.
Knapps Narrows
Knapps Narrows is a tidal channel separating Tilghman Island from mainland Maryland and serving as a key waterway for local boating and fishing.
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B.
Sakonnet Neck
Sakonnet Neck is a coastal peninsula in Rhode Island that forms part of the historical homeland of the Indigenous Sakonnet people.
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C.
Tongass Narrows
Tongass Narrows is a coastal waterway in southeastern Alaska known for its busy marine traffic, seaplane operations, and role as the main channel adjacent to the city of Ketchikan.
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D.
Nichols Passage
Nichols Passage is a marine waterway in southeastern Alaska that forms part of the intricate coastal channel system used by ships navigating the Alexander Archipelago.
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E.
Lubec Channel
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.
- 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: First Narrows Target entity description: First Narrows is the narrow western entrance to Vancouver’s Burrard Inlet, spanned by the Lions Gate Bridge and serving as a key shipping and transportation corridor.
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A.
Knapps Narrows
Knapps Narrows is a tidal channel separating Tilghman Island from mainland Maryland and serving as a key waterway for local boating and fishing.
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B.
Sakonnet Neck
Sakonnet Neck is a coastal peninsula in Rhode Island that forms part of the historical homeland of the Indigenous Sakonnet people.
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C.
Tongass Narrows
Tongass Narrows is a coastal waterway in southeastern Alaska known for its busy marine traffic, seaplane operations, and role as the main channel adjacent to the city of Ketchikan.
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D.
Nichols Passage
Nichols Passage is a marine waterway in southeastern Alaska that forms part of the intricate coastal channel system used by ships navigating the Alexander Archipelago.
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E.
Lubec Channel
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
strait
ⓘ
waterway ⓘ |
| adjacentTo |
North Shore
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Stanley Park NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| city | Vancouver NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| connects |
inner Burrard Inlet
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
outer Burrard Inlet NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Canada ⓘ |
| crossedBy | Lions Gate Bridge NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLandmark | Lions Gate Bridge NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNavigationConstraint |
bridge clearance under Lions Gate Bridge
ⓘ
narrow width ⓘ strong tidal currents ⓘ |
| hasRole |
shipping corridor
ⓘ
transportation corridor ⓘ |
| importance | key access point to Port of Vancouver ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
British Columbia
ⓘ
Burrard Inlet NERFINISHED ⓘ Canada ⓘ Metro Vancouver, Canada ⓘ
surface form:
Metro Vancouver
Vancouver ⓘ |
| mouthOf | inner Burrard Inlet NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| navigatedBy |
cargo ships
ⓘ
container ships ⓘ cruise ships ⓘ ferries ⓘ tugboats ⓘ |
| near |
Brockton Point
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
English Bay NERFINISHED ⓘ Prospect Point NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| oceanBasin | Pacific Ocean NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf |
Burrard Inlet
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
shipping route to Port of Vancouver ⓘ |
| province | British Columbia ⓘ |
| region | Pacific Northwest ⓘ |
| relativeLocation | western entrance to Burrard Inlet ⓘ |
| spannedBy | Lions Gate Bridge NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedFor |
commercial shipping
ⓘ
marine transportation ⓘ recreational boating ⓘ |
| waterBodyType | narrow channel ⓘ |
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: First Narrows Description of subject: First Narrows is the narrow western entrance to Vancouver’s Burrard Inlet, spanned by the Lions Gate Bridge and serving as a key shipping and transportation corridor.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.