Lincoln
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Lincoln is a historic cathedral city in the East Midlands of England, renowned for its medieval architecture, including Lincoln Cathedral and Lincoln Castle.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Lincoln canonical | 157 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T629638 — 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: Lincoln Context triple: [East Midlands, hasMajorCity, Lincoln]
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A.
Lincoln
Lincoln is a suburban town in eastern Massachusetts known for its conservation land, historic sites, and commuter access to Boston.
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B.
Lincoln
Lincoln is a luxury automobile marque of the Ford Motor Company known for its premium sedans and SUVs.
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C.
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president of the United States, best known for leading the country through the Civil War and issuing the Emancipation Proclamation that began the process of ending slavery.
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D.
Ulysses S. Grant
Ulysses S. Grant was the 18th president of the United States and a former Union Civil War general whose administration marked the early years of the Gilded Age.
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E.
Johnson
Johnson is a common English surname borne by numerous notable individuals across politics, arts, sports, and other fields.
- 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: Lincoln Target entity description: Lincoln is a historic cathedral city in the East Midlands of England, renowned for its medieval architecture, including Lincoln Cathedral and Lincoln Castle.
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A.
Lincoln
Lincoln is a suburban town in eastern Massachusetts known for its conservation land, historic sites, and commuter access to Boston.
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B.
Lincoln
Lincoln is a luxury automobile marque of the Ford Motor Company known for its premium sedans and SUVs.
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C.
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president of the United States, best known for leading the country through the Civil War and issuing the Emancipation Proclamation that began the process of ending slavery.
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D.
Ulysses S. Grant
Ulysses S. Grant was the 18th president of the United States and a former Union Civil War general whose administration marked the early years of the Gilded Age.
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E.
Johnson
Johnson is a common English surname borne by numerous notable individuals across politics, arts, sports, and other fields.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Lincoln Description of subject: Lincoln is a historic cathedral city in the East Midlands of England, renowned for its medieval architecture, including Lincoln Cathedral and Lincoln Castle.
Referenced by (157)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Cathedral Quarter of Lincoln
subject surface form:
Lindum Colonia
subject surface form:
Ermine Street