Tompkins County
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Tompkins County is a county in central New York State best known for encompassing the city of Ithaca and being home to Cornell University and Ithaca College.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Tompkins County, New York | 45 |
| Tompkins County canonical | 11 |
| Tompkins County government | 4 |
| Tompkins County region | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T55892 — 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: Tompkins County Context triple: [Ithaca, New York, United States, county, Tompkins County]
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Saratoga County
Saratoga County is a county in eastern New York State known for the city of Saratoga Springs, its historic horse racing track, and its role in the American Revolutionary War.
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Albany County
Albany County is a county in eastern New York State that includes the state capital, Albany, and serves as a political, economic, and cultural hub of the region.
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Rensselaer County
Rensselaer County is a county in eastern New York State, located along the Hudson River opposite Albany and known for its mix of urban centers, suburbs, and rural communities.
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Ulster County
Ulster County is a county in southeastern New York State known for its Catskill Mountains scenery, historic towns, and outdoor recreation.
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E.
Greene County, New York
Greene County, New York is a largely rural county in eastern New York State known for its scenic Catskill Mountains, outdoor recreation, and historic Hudson River communities.
- 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: Tompkins County Target entity description: Tompkins County is a county in central New York State best known for encompassing the city of Ithaca and being home to Cornell University and Ithaca College.
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A.
Saratoga County
Saratoga County is a county in eastern New York State known for the city of Saratoga Springs, its historic horse racing track, and its role in the American Revolutionary War.
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B.
Albany County
Albany County is a county in eastern New York State that includes the state capital, Albany, and serves as a political, economic, and cultural hub of the region.
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C.
Rensselaer County
Rensselaer County is a county in eastern New York State, located along the Hudson River opposite Albany and known for its mix of urban centers, suburbs, and rural communities.
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Ulster County
Ulster County is a county in southeastern New York State known for its Catskill Mountains scenery, historic towns, and outdoor recreation.
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E.
Greene County, New York
Greene County, New York is a largely rural county in eastern New York State known for its scenic Catskill Mountains, outdoor recreation, and historic Hudson River communities.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Tompkins County Description of subject: Tompkins County is a county in central New York State best known for encompassing the city of Ithaca and being home to Cornell University and Ithaca College.
Referenced by (63)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Tompkins County government
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Tompkins County, New York
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Fall Creek Gorge Natural Area
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Monkey Run Natural Area
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Tompkins County, New York
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Coy Glen Natural Area
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Tompkins County, New York
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Tompkins County, New York
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Tompkins County, New York
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Tompkins County, New York
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Tompkins County, New York
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Tompkins County, New York
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Tompkins County, New York
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Tompkins County, New York