Peshtigo, Wisconsin
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Peshtigo, Wisconsin is a small city in northeastern Wisconsin best known as the site of the devastating 1871 Peshtigo Fire, the deadliest wildfire in U.S. history.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Peshtigo, Wisconsin canonical | 10 |
| City of Peshtigo | 2 |
| City of Peshtigo, Wisconsin | 1 |
| Town of Peshtigo, Wisconsin | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1357384 — 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: Peshtigo, Wisconsin Context triple: [Peshtigo Fire, location, Peshtigo, Wisconsin]
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A.
Bayfield
Bayfield is a residential suburb of the historic town of Chepstow in Monmouthshire, Wales.
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B.
Bayfield, Wisconsin
Bayfield, Wisconsin is a small lakeside city on the shores of Lake Superior known as the gateway to the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore.
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C.
Alcona
Alcona is a residential community within the town of Innisfil, Ontario, known for its proximity to Lake Simcoe and its role as one of the area's primary population centres.
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D.
Escanaba, Michigan
Escanaba, Michigan is a small port city on Little Bay de Noc in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, known for its shipping, paper industry, and outdoor recreation.
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E.
Mackinaw City, Michigan
Mackinaw City, Michigan is a popular northern Michigan tourist village that serves as a gateway to Mackinac Island and the Upper Peninsula, known for its historic forts, lighthouses, and views of the Mackinac Bridge.
- 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: Peshtigo, Wisconsin Target entity description: Peshtigo, Wisconsin is a small city in northeastern Wisconsin best known as the site of the devastating 1871 Peshtigo Fire, the deadliest wildfire in U.S. history.
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A.
Bayfield
Bayfield is a residential suburb of the historic town of Chepstow in Monmouthshire, Wales.
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B.
Bayfield, Wisconsin
Bayfield, Wisconsin is a small lakeside city on the shores of Lake Superior known as the gateway to the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore.
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C.
Alcona
Alcona is a residential community within the town of Innisfil, Ontario, known for its proximity to Lake Simcoe and its role as one of the area's primary population centres.
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D.
Escanaba, Michigan
Escanaba, Michigan is a small port city on Little Bay de Noc in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, known for its shipping, paper industry, and outdoor recreation.
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E.
Mackinaw City, Michigan
Mackinaw City, Michigan is a popular northern Michigan tourist village that serves as a gateway to Mackinac Island and the Upper Peninsula, known for its historic forts, lighthouses, and views of the Mackinac Bridge.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
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: Peshtigo, Wisconsin Description of subject: Peshtigo, Wisconsin is a small city in northeastern Wisconsin best known as the site of the devastating 1871 Peshtigo Fire, the deadliest wildfire in U.S. history.
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Peshtigo Fire
subject surface form:
Peshtigo Fire Museum
subject surface form:
Peshtigo Fire Cemetery
this entity surface form:
City of Peshtigo
this entity surface form:
City of Peshtigo
this entity surface form:
City of Peshtigo, Wisconsin
this entity surface form:
Town of Peshtigo, Wisconsin