Ymir, British Columbia, Canada
E782512
Ymir, British Columbia, Canada is a small historic mining community in the Selkirk Mountains of southeastern British Columbia.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ymir, British Columbia | 1 |
| Ymir, British Columbia, Canada canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9165154 — 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: Ymir, British Columbia, Canada Context triple: [Pablo Schreiber, placeOfBirth, Ymir, British Columbia, Canada]
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A.
Field, British Columbia
Field, British Columbia is a small community in the Canadian Rockies that serves as a gateway and service hub for visitors to Yoho National Park.
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B.
Osoyoos, British Columbia
Osoyoos, British Columbia is a small resort town in Canada’s southern Okanagan Valley, known for its warm climate, desert landscapes, and surrounding lakes and vineyards.
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C.
Chemainus, British Columbia
Chemainus, British Columbia is a small coastal town on Vancouver Island renowned for its outdoor mural gallery and rich Indigenous and logging history.
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D.
Lytton, British Columbia
Lytton, British Columbia is a small village in the interior of the province known for its location at the confluence of the Fraser and Thompson Rivers and for often recording some of the highest temperatures in Canada.
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E.
Robson, British Columbia
Robson, British Columbia is a small unincorporated community in the West Kootenay region of southeastern British Columbia, situated near the city of Castlegar along the Columbia 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: Ymir, British Columbia, Canada Target entity description: Ymir, British Columbia, Canada is a small historic mining community in the Selkirk Mountains of southeastern British Columbia.
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A.
Field, British Columbia
Field, British Columbia is a small community in the Canadian Rockies that serves as a gateway and service hub for visitors to Yoho National Park.
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B.
Osoyoos, British Columbia
Osoyoos, British Columbia is a small resort town in Canada’s southern Okanagan Valley, known for its warm climate, desert landscapes, and surrounding lakes and vineyards.
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C.
Chemainus, British Columbia
Chemainus, British Columbia is a small coastal town on Vancouver Island renowned for its outdoor mural gallery and rich Indigenous and logging history.
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D.
Lytton, British Columbia
Lytton, British Columbia is a small village in the interior of the province known for its location at the confluence of the Fraser and Thompson Rivers and for often recording some of the highest temperatures in Canada.
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E.
Robson, British Columbia
Robson, British Columbia is a small unincorporated community in the West Kootenay region of southeastern British Columbia, situated near the city of Castlegar along the Columbia River.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
historic mining community
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unincorporated community ⓘ |
| country | Canada ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
historic character
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rural community ⓘ small population ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
heritage mining sites
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historic buildings ⓘ small local businesses ⓘ |
| hasNearbyCity | Nelson, British Columbia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNearbySkiArea | Whitewater Ski Resort NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPostalCountry | Canada NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTransportation | highway access only ⓘ |
| historicalIndustry |
gold mining
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lead mining ⓘ silver mining ⓘ zinc mining ⓘ |
| locatedAlong | Highway 6 (British Columbia) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Regional District of Central Kootenay
NERFINISHED
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Selkirk Mountains NERFINISHED ⓘ West Kootenay region NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInMountainRange | Selkirk Mountains NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedNorthOf | Salmo, British Columbia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Salmo River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedSouthOf | Nelson, British Columbia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Ymir (mythological giant from Norse mythology) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryEconomicActivity |
residential community for nearby towns
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tourism ⓘ |
| province | British Columbia ⓘ |
| region | southeastern British Columbia ⓘ |
| timeZone | Pacific Time Zone ⓘ |
| timeZoneDST |
Pacific Time Zone
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surface form:
Pacific Daylight Time
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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: Ymir, British Columbia, Canada Description of subject: Ymir, British Columbia, Canada is a small historic mining community in the Selkirk Mountains of southeastern British Columbia.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Regional District of Central Kootenay
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hasUnincorporatedCommunity
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Ymir, British Columbia, Canada
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this entity surface form:
Ymir, British Columbia