Windom, Minnesota
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Windom, Minnesota is a small city in southwestern Minnesota that serves as the county seat of Cottonwood County and a regional agricultural and transportation hub.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Windom, Minnesota canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12987431 — 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: Windom, Minnesota Context triple: [Minnesota State Highway 60, passesThrough, Windom, Minnesota]
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A.
Keewatin, Minnesota
Keewatin, Minnesota is a small city on the Iron Range in northern Minnesota known historically for its taconite mining industry.
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B.
Wadena, Minnesota
Wadena, Minnesota is a small city in central Minnesota known as a regional hub for agriculture, commerce, and transportation.
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C.
Emmons, Minnesota
Emmons, Minnesota is a small rural city in southern Minnesota near the Iowa border, known for its agricultural surroundings and close-knit community.
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D.
Lindstrom, Minnesota
Lindstrom, Minnesota is a small city in eastern Minnesota known for its strong Swedish heritage and lakeside community character.
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E.
Mahtomedi, Minnesota
Mahtomedi, Minnesota is a small suburban city northeast of St. Paul known for its lakeside setting on White Bear Lake and strong public schools.
- 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: Windom, Minnesota Target entity description: Windom, Minnesota is a small city in southwestern Minnesota that serves as the county seat of Cottonwood County and a regional agricultural and transportation hub.
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A.
Keewatin, Minnesota
Keewatin, Minnesota is a small city on the Iron Range in northern Minnesota known historically for its taconite mining industry.
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B.
Wadena, Minnesota
Wadena, Minnesota is a small city in central Minnesota known as a regional hub for agriculture, commerce, and transportation.
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C.
Emmons, Minnesota
Emmons, Minnesota is a small rural city in southern Minnesota near the Iowa border, known for its agricultural surroundings and close-knit community.
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D.
Lindstrom, Minnesota
Lindstrom, Minnesota is a small city in eastern Minnesota known for its strong Swedish heritage and lakeside community character.
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E.
Mahtomedi, Minnesota
Mahtomedi, Minnesota is a small suburban city northeast of St. Paul known for its lakeside setting on White Bear Lake and strong public schools.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
city
ⓘ
county seat ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| county | Cottonwood County, Minnesota NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| elevationAboveSeaLevel | approximately 1,360 feet ⓘ |
| GNISFeatureClass | populated place ⓘ |
| hasAreaCode | 507 ⓘ |
| hasClimate | humid continental climate ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
agricultural economy
ⓘ
regional transportation connections ⓘ |
| hasGNISID | 0654140 ⓘ |
| hasGovernmentType | mayor–council government ⓘ |
| hasJurisdiction | City of Windom government ⓘ |
| hasLandUse | predominantly agricultural surroundings ⓘ |
| hasLocalEconomyComponent |
agricultural processing
ⓘ
grain production ⓘ livestock production ⓘ |
| hasPostalCode | 56101 ⓘ |
| hasPrimaryEconomicSector |
agri-business services
ⓘ
agriculture ⓘ |
| hasRegionCode | FIPS code 27-70418 ⓘ |
| hasSettlementType | city ⓘ |
| isCountySeatOf | Cottonwood County, Minnesota NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isPartOf |
Cottonwood County, Minnesota
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
State of Minnesota NERFINISHED ⓘ United States of America NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isSeatOf | Cottonwood County Courthouse NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isServedBy | regional freight transportation networks ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Cottonwood County, Minnesota
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Midwestern United States ⓘ Minnesota ⓘ North America ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | southwestern Minnesota NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Central Time Zone ⓘ |
| locatedOnRiver | Des Moines River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | United States Corn Belt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| role |
county seat of Cottonwood County, Minnesota
ⓘ
regional agricultural hub ⓘ regional transportation hub ⓘ |
| servedByHighway |
Minnesota State Highway 60
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Minnesota State Highway 62 NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 71 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| state | Minnesota ⓘ |
| timeZoneDST |
Central Time Zone
ⓘ
surface form:
Central Daylight Time
|
| transportationRole | regional highway junction ⓘ |
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: Windom, Minnesota Description of subject: Windom, Minnesota is a small city in southwestern Minnesota that serves as the county seat of Cottonwood County and a regional agricultural and transportation hub.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.