Linton, Indiana
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Linton, Indiana is a small city in southwestern Indiana known historically for its coal mining heritage and annual Freedom Festival.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Linton, Indiana canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11521214 — 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: Linton, Indiana Context triple: [Greene County, Indiana, largestCity, Linton, Indiana]
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A.
Lilly Dale, Indiana
Lilly Dale, Indiana is a small unincorporated community located in Perry County in the southern part of the state.
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B.
St. John, Indiana
St. John, Indiana is a suburban town in Lake County known for its residential communities, good schools, and proximity to the Chicago metropolitan area.
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C.
Ligonier, Indiana
Ligonier, Indiana is a small city in northeastern Indiana known for its historic downtown and cultural heritage within Noble County.
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D.
Lizton, Indiana
Lizton, Indiana is a small rural town in central Indiana known for its close-knit community and location within the Indianapolis metropolitan area.
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E.
Winfield, Indiana
Winfield, Indiana is a small suburban town in northwest Indiana known for its residential communities and proximity to the Chicago metropolitan area.
- 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: Linton, Indiana Target entity description: Linton, Indiana is a small city in southwestern Indiana known historically for its coal mining heritage and annual Freedom Festival.
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A.
Lilly Dale, Indiana
Lilly Dale, Indiana is a small unincorporated community located in Perry County in the southern part of the state.
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B.
St. John, Indiana
St. John, Indiana is a suburban town in Lake County known for its residential communities, good schools, and proximity to the Chicago metropolitan area.
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C.
Ligonier, Indiana
Ligonier, Indiana is a small city in northeastern Indiana known for its historic downtown and cultural heritage within Noble County.
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D.
Lizton, Indiana
Lizton, Indiana is a small rural town in central Indiana known for its close-knit community and location within the Indianapolis metropolitan area.
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E.
Winfield, Indiana
Winfield, Indiana is a small suburban town in northwest Indiana known for its residential communities and proximity to the Chicago metropolitan area.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
city
ⓘ
municipality ⓘ |
| areaCode |
812
ⓘ
930 ⓘ |
| climate | humid continental climate ⓘ |
| coordinates | 39.0345°N 87.1650°W ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| countrySubdivision | State of Indiana NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| county | Greene County, Indiana NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| demographicsCharacteristic | small city population ⓘ |
| elevation |
approximately 156 meters
ⓘ
approximately 512 feet ⓘ |
| foundingDate | 1837 ⓘ |
| governmentType | mayor–council government ⓘ |
| hasFestival | Linton Freedom Festival NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFIPSCode | 18-44040 ⓘ |
| hasGNISFeatureID | 0432310 ⓘ |
| hasHighSchool | Linton-Stockton High School NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLake | Linton City Lake NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNewspaper | Greene County Daily World NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPark | Humphreys Park NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPublicLibrary | Linton Public Library NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSchoolDistrict | Linton-Stockton School Corporation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSettlementType | city ⓘ |
| historicalIndustry |
coal mining
ⓘ
railroad-related commerce ⓘ |
| incorporationDate | 1903 ⓘ |
| isCountySeatOf | Greene County, Indiana NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Fourth of July celebrations
ⓘ
annual Freedom Festival ⓘ coal mining heritage ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Midwestern United States
ⓘ
southwestern Indiana ⓘ |
| namedAfter | John W. Linton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nearestMajorCity |
Bloomington, Indiana
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Terre Haute, Indiana NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nearProtectedArea | Goose Pond Fish and Wildlife Area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf |
Bloomfield, Indiana micropolitan area
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Greene County, Indiana NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| postalCode | 47441 ⓘ |
| region | Wabash Valley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| state | Indiana ⓘ |
| timeZone | Eastern Time Zone ⓘ |
| timeZoneDST |
Eastern Time Zone
ⓘ
surface form:
Eastern Daylight Time
|
| transportation |
served by State Road 54
ⓘ
served by State Road 59 ⓘ |
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: Linton, Indiana Description of subject: Linton, Indiana is a small city in southwestern Indiana known historically for its coal mining heritage and annual Freedom Festival.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.