First Narrows of Burrard Inlet
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The First Narrows of Burrard Inlet is the narrow western entrance to Vancouver’s inner harbor, spanned by the Lions Gate Bridge and forming a key maritime gateway between the Strait of Georgia and the city’s port.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| First Narrows of Burrard Inlet canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8678236 — 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 of Burrard Inlet Context triple: [Prospect Point, overlooks, First Narrows of Burrard Inlet]
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A.
Burrard Inlet
Burrard Inlet is a coastal fjord in British Columbia that forms Vancouver’s primary harbor and separates the city from the North Shore.
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B.
Sechelt Inlet
Sechelt Inlet is a coastal fjord on British Columbia’s Sunshine Coast, known for its sheltered waters, scenic forested shores, and significance to the shíshálh (Sechelt) First Nation.
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C.
Saanich Inlet
Saanich Inlet is a long, narrow coastal fjord on the southeastern coast of Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada, known for its deep waters, unique marine ecology, and cultural significance to local First Nations.
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D.
Esquimalt Harbour
Esquimalt Harbour is a natural harbour on the southern tip of Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada, that serves as a major base and operational hub for the Royal Canadian Navy.
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E.
Burrard Inlet (northern boundary)
Burrard Inlet (northern boundary) is a coastal fjord in southwestern British Columbia that forms part of the inner harbour of Vancouver and separates the city from the North Shore.
- 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 of Burrard Inlet Target entity description: The First Narrows of Burrard Inlet is the narrow western entrance to Vancouver’s inner harbor, spanned by the Lions Gate Bridge and forming a key maritime gateway between the Strait of Georgia and the city’s port.
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A.
Burrard Inlet
Burrard Inlet is a coastal fjord in British Columbia that forms Vancouver’s primary harbor and separates the city from the North Shore.
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B.
Sechelt Inlet
Sechelt Inlet is a coastal fjord on British Columbia’s Sunshine Coast, known for its sheltered waters, scenic forested shores, and significance to the shíshálh (Sechelt) First Nation.
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C.
Saanich Inlet
Saanich Inlet is a long, narrow coastal fjord on the southeastern coast of Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada, known for its deep waters, unique marine ecology, and cultural significance to local First Nations.
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D.
Esquimalt Harbour
Esquimalt Harbour is a natural harbour on the southern tip of Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada, that serves as a major base and operational hub for the Royal Canadian Navy.
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E.
Burrard Inlet (northern boundary)
Burrard Inlet (northern boundary) is a coastal fjord in southwestern British Columbia that forms part of the inner harbour of Vancouver and separates the city from the North Shore.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
strait
ⓘ
waterway ⓘ |
| adjacentTo |
North Shore
ⓘ
Stanley Park ⓘ
linked to:
Stanley Park, Vancouver
|
| alsoKnownAs | First Narrows ⓘ |
| connects |
Strait of Georgia
ⓘ
linked to:
Georgia Strait
Vancouver inner harbour ⓘ
linked to:
Burrard Inlet
|
| country | Canada ⓘ |
| forms | western entrance to Vancouver’s inner harbour ⓘ |
| hasBridgeClearance | limited air draft for large vessels ⓘ |
| hasNavigationConstraint |
narrow channel width
ⓘ
strong tidal currents ⓘ |
| hasRole | maritime gateway to Port of Vancouver ⓘ |
| hasSignificance | key access route for Port of Vancouver ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
British Columbia
ⓘ
Burrard Inlet ⓘ Canada ⓘ Metro Vancouver ⓘ
linked to:
Metro Vancouver, Canada
|
| near |
City of North Vancouver
ⓘ
linked to:
North Vancouver, British Columbia
City of Vancouver ⓘ
linked to:
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
District of West Vancouver ⓘ |
| overlainBy |
Lions Gate Bridge roadway
ⓘ
linked to:
Lions Gate Bridge
|
| partOf |
Salish Sea watershed
ⓘ
linked to:
Salish Sea
Vancouver Harbour ⓘ
linked to:
Burrard Inlet
approach to Vancouver container terminals ⓘ approach to Vancouver cruise ship terminals ⓘ |
| spannedBy | Lions Gate Bridge ⓘ |
| usedFor |
commercial shipping
ⓘ
recreational boating ⓘ |
| waterBodyType | tidal 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 of Burrard Inlet Description of subject: The First Narrows of Burrard Inlet is the narrow western entrance to Vancouver’s inner harbor, spanned by the Lions Gate Bridge and forming a key maritime gateway between the Strait of Georgia and the city’s port.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.