Lincoln Township
E238040
Lincoln Township is a rural civil township located within Poweshiek County in the U.S. state of Iowa.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lincoln Township canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2045064 — 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 Township Context triple: [Poweshiek County, Iowa, containsSettlement, Lincoln Township]
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A.
Lawrence Township
Lawrence Township is a suburban municipality in Mercer County, New Jersey, known for its residential communities, shopping centers, and proximity to Princeton.
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B.
Redford Township
Redford Township is a suburban community in southeastern Michigan that borders the city of Detroit and functions largely as a residential area within the Detroit metropolitan region.
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C.
Trowbridge Township
Trowbridge Township is a civil township located within Allegan County in the U.S. state of Michigan.
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D.
Hopkins Township
Hopkins Township is a rural civil township located in Allegan County in the U.S. state of Michigan.
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E.
Jackson Township
Jackson Township is a rural civil township located within Poweshiek County in the U.S. state of Iowa.
- 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 Township Target entity description: Lincoln Township is a rural civil township located within Poweshiek County in the U.S. state of Iowa.
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A.
Lawrence Township
Lawrence Township is a suburban municipality in Mercer County, New Jersey, known for its residential communities, shopping centers, and proximity to Princeton.
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B.
Redford Township
Redford Township is a suburban community in southeastern Michigan that borders the city of Detroit and functions largely as a residential area within the Detroit metropolitan region.
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C.
Trowbridge Township
Trowbridge Township is a civil township located within Allegan County in the U.S. state of Michigan.
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D.
Hopkins Township
Hopkins Township is a rural civil township located in Allegan County in the U.S. state of Michigan.
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E.
Jackson Township
Jackson Township is a rural civil township located within Poweshiek County in the U.S. state of Iowa.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
civil township
ⓘ
township in Iowa ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| countrySubdivision | Iowa ⓘ |
| hasClimateZone | humid continental climate ⓘ |
| hasGovernmentType | civil township government ⓘ |
| hasISO3166-2SubdivisionCode |
Iowa
ⓘ
surface form:
US-IA
|
| hasJurisdictionWithin | Poweshiek County, Iowa ⓘ |
| hasLocalGovernmentSubdivisionOf | Poweshiek County, Iowa ⓘ |
| hasName | Lincoln Township self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| hasPostalCountry |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| hasPrimaryLanguage | English ⓘ |
| hasRuralCharacter | true ⓘ |
| hasSettlementType | township ⓘ |
| isInUSState | Iowa ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Iowa
ⓘ
Poweshiek County, Iowa ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeTerritory | Poweshiek County, Iowa ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone |
Central Daylight Time
ⓘ
Central Time Zone ⓘ
surface form:
Central Standard Time
Central Time Zone ⓘ |
| locatedOnContinent | North America ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Abraham Lincoln ⓘ |
| partOf |
Midwestern United States
ⓘ
Poweshiek County, Iowa ⓘ state of Iowa ⓘ |
| usesUnitSystem | U.S. customary units ⓘ |
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 Township Description of subject: Lincoln Township is a rural civil township located within Poweshiek County in the U.S. state of Iowa.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Lincoln Township, Poweshiek County, Iowa