Wisconsin
E16627
Wisconsin is a U.S. state in the Upper Midwest known for its dairy industry, Great Lakes shorelines, and mix of rural landscapes and industrial cities.
All labels observed (17)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Wisconsin canonical | 1,963 |
| State of Wisconsin | 117 |
| state of Wisconsin | 8 |
| Wisconsin, United States | 6 |
| U.S. state of Wisconsin | 5 |
| WI | 3 |
| US-WI | 2 |
| Wisconsin Territory | 2 |
| America's Dairyland | 1 |
| Badger State | 1 |
| Government of Wisconsin | 1 |
| WISCONSIN | 1 |
| Wisconsin (across Mississippi River) | 1 |
| Wisconsin (primary Ho-Chunk homeland) | 1 |
| Wisconsin mainland | 1 |
| Wisconsin, United States of America | 1 |
| the word "WISCONSIN" | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6532 — 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: Wisconsin Context triple: [Dutch Americans, historicalSettlementRegion, Wisconsin]
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A.
Iowa
Iowa is a Midwestern U.S. state known for its extensive agriculture, especially corn and soybean production, and its role in national politics through the Iowa caucuses.
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B.
Illinois
Illinois is a Midwestern U.S. state known for its major metropolis Chicago, diverse economy, and significant political and transportation influence.
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C.
Michigan (most of state)
Michigan (most of state) is the larger portion of the Midwestern U.S. state of Michigan, encompassing its Lower Peninsula and parts of the Upper Peninsula, including major cities like Detroit, Grand Rapids, and Lansing.
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D.
Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Madison, Wisconsin, United States is the capital city of Wisconsin, known for its major research university, vibrant cultural scene, and numerous lakes.
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E.
Maryland
Maryland is a Mid-Atlantic U.S. state known for its Chesapeake Bay shoreline, colonial history, and proximity to the nation’s capital.
- 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: Wisconsin Target entity description: Wisconsin is a U.S. state in the Upper Midwest known for its dairy industry, Great Lakes shorelines, and mix of rural landscapes and industrial cities.
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A.
Iowa
Iowa is a Midwestern U.S. state known for its extensive agriculture, especially corn and soybean production, and its role in national politics through the Iowa caucuses.
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B.
Illinois
Illinois is a Midwestern U.S. state known for its major metropolis Chicago, diverse economy, and significant political and transportation influence.
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C.
Michigan (most of state)
Michigan (most of state) is the larger portion of the Midwestern U.S. state of Michigan, encompassing its Lower Peninsula and parts of the Upper Peninsula, including major cities like Detroit, Grand Rapids, and Lansing.
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D.
Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Madison, Wisconsin, United States is the capital city of Wisconsin, known for its major research university, vibrant cultural scene, and numerous lakes.
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E.
Maryland
Maryland is a Mid-Atlantic U.S. state known for its Chesapeake Bay shoreline, colonial history, and proximity to the nation’s capital.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
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: Wisconsin Description of subject: Wisconsin is a U.S. state in the Upper Midwest known for its dairy industry, Great Lakes shorelines, and mix of rural landscapes and industrial cities.
Referenced by (2,115)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.