St. Peters Canal
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St. Peters Canal is a historic man-made waterway in Nova Scotia, Canada, that allows vessels to pass between the Atlantic Ocean and the inland Bras d'Or Lake.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| St. Peters Canal canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10629710 — 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: St. Peters Canal Context triple: [Bras d'Or Lake, connectedBy, St. Peters Canal]
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A.
Menua Canal
The Menua Canal is an ancient irrigation and water-supply channel built in the 9th century BCE under the Urartian king Menua near modern-day Van in eastern Turkey.
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B.
Canso Canal
The Canso Canal is a navigation channel in Nova Scotia that allows ships to pass between the Atlantic Ocean and the Northumberland Strait through the Canso Causeway.
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C.
Tamiami Canal
Tamiami Canal is a major man-made waterway in South Florida that runs parallel to the Tamiami Trail, helping drain the Everglades and manage water flow around the Miami metropolitan area.
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D.
La Khê Canal
La Khê Canal is a waterway in Hanoi that forms part of the city’s broader hydrological and drainage network.
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E.
C-44 Canal
The C-44 Canal is a major man-made waterway in South Florida that connects Lake Okeechobee to the St. Lucie Estuary as part of the region’s flood control and water management system.
- 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: St. Peters Canal Target entity description: St. Peters Canal is a historic man-made waterway in Nova Scotia, Canada, that allows vessels to pass between the Atlantic Ocean and the inland Bras d'Or Lake.
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A.
Menua Canal
The Menua Canal is an ancient irrigation and water-supply channel built in the 9th century BCE under the Urartian king Menua near modern-day Van in eastern Turkey.
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B.
Canso Canal
The Canso Canal is a navigation channel in Nova Scotia that allows ships to pass between the Atlantic Ocean and the Northumberland Strait through the Canso Causeway.
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C.
Tamiami Canal
Tamiami Canal is a major man-made waterway in South Florida that runs parallel to the Tamiami Trail, helping drain the Everglades and manage water flow around the Miami metropolitan area.
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D.
La Khê Canal
La Khê Canal is a waterway in Hanoi that forms part of the city’s broader hydrological and drainage network.
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E.
C-44 Canal
The C-44 Canal is a major man-made waterway in South Florida that connects Lake Okeechobee to the St. Lucie Estuary as part of the region’s flood control and water management system.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
canal
ⓘ
historic site ⓘ |
| allowsVesselPassageBetween |
Atlantic Ocean
ⓘ
Bras d'Or Lake ⓘ |
| connectsBodyOfWater |
Atlantic Ocean
ⓘ
Bras d'Or Lake ⓘ |
| constructionStarted | mid-1800s ⓘ |
| country | Canada ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
lock system
ⓘ
swing bridge ⓘ |
| hasHeritageValue |
engineering history
ⓘ
navigation history on Cape Breton Island ⓘ |
| hasLock | yes ⓘ |
| heritageDesignation | National Historic Site of Canada ⓘ |
| isPartOf | Bras d'Or Lake watershed access system ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Nova Scotia ⓘ |
| locatedNear | St. Peter's, Nova Scotia ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Cape Breton Island ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | Parks Canada ⓘ |
| numberOfLocks | 1 ⓘ |
| openedForNavigation | mid-19th century ⓘ |
| operatedBy | Parks Canada ⓘ |
| primaryFunction |
marine transportation
ⓘ
navigation ⓘ |
| region | Richmond County, Nova Scotia ⓘ |
| tourismAttraction | yes ⓘ |
| usedFor |
recreational boating
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small commercial vessels ⓘ |
| waterwayType | man-made 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: St. Peters Canal Description of subject: St. Peters Canal is a historic man-made waterway in Nova Scotia, Canada, that allows vessels to pass between the Atlantic Ocean and the inland Bras d'Or Lake.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.