contiguous United States
E2446
The contiguous United States refers to the 48 adjoining U.S. states and the District of Columbia on the North American mainland, excluding Alaska and Hawaii.
All labels observed (14)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T45360 — 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: contiguous United States Context triple: [Alaska, separatedFrom, contiguous United States]
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A.
United States of America
The United States of America is a large federal republic in North America known for its global political, economic, military, and cultural influence.
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B.
western United States
The western United States is a broad region of the country known for its diverse landscapes, including major mountain ranges, deserts, and Pacific coastline, as well as large urban centers and significant cultural and economic influence.
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C.
Midwestern United States
The Midwestern United States is a region of the country known for its agricultural heartland, major industrial cities, and central role in American culture and history.
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D.
California, United States
California, United States is a large and populous U.S. state on the West Coast known for its diverse geography, major technology and entertainment industries, and cultural and economic influence.
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E.
West Coast of the United States
The West Coast of the United States is the Pacific Ocean–facing region of the country, commonly referring to the coastal states of California, Oregon, and Washington known for major port cities, diverse climates, and significant cultural and economic influence.
- 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: contiguous United States Target entity description: The contiguous United States refers to the 48 adjoining U.S. states and the District of Columbia on the North American mainland, excluding Alaska and Hawaii.
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A.
United States of America
The United States of America is a large federal republic in North America known for its global political, economic, military, and cultural influence.
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B.
western United States
The western United States is a broad region of the country known for its diverse landscapes, including major mountain ranges, deserts, and Pacific coastline, as well as large urban centers and significant cultural and economic influence.
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C.
Midwestern United States
The Midwestern United States is a region of the country known for its agricultural heartland, major industrial cities, and central role in American culture and history.
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D.
California, United States
California, United States is a large and populous U.S. state on the West Coast known for its diverse geography, major technology and entertainment industries, and cultural and economic influence.
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E.
West Coast of the United States
The West Coast of the United States is the Pacific Ocean–facing region of the country, commonly referring to the coastal states of California, Oregon, and Washington known for major port cities, diverse climates, and significant cultural and economic influence.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (75)
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: contiguous United States Description of subject: The contiguous United States refers to the 48 adjoining U.S. states and the District of Columbia on the North American mainland, excluding Alaska and Hawaii.
Referenced by (97)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Hawaiian Airlines
this entity surface form:
mainland United States
subject surface form:
Hawaiian Airlines
this entity surface form:
Mainland United States
subject surface form:
Ground-based Midcourse Defense
this entity surface form:
continental United States
this entity surface form:
continental United States
this entity surface form:
continental United States
this entity surface form:
Continental United States
this entity surface form:
Continental United States
this entity surface form:
continental United States
subject surface form:
General Headquarters Air Force
this entity surface form:
continental United States
this entity surface form:
United States (excluding southern Florida and southernmost Texas)
this entity surface form:
continental United States
this entity surface form:
continental United States
this entity surface form:
United States homeland
this entity surface form:
conterminous United States
this entity surface form:
continental United States
this entity surface form:
United States mainland
subject surface form:
Marine Corps Forces North
this entity surface form:
continental United States
this entity surface form:
continental United States
this entity surface form:
continental United States
this entity surface form:
continental United States
this entity surface form:
continental United States
this entity surface form:
continental United States
this entity surface form:
United States mainland
this entity surface form:
United States mainland
this entity surface form:
continental United States
this entity surface form:
continental United States
this entity surface form:
continental United States
this entity surface form:
continental United States
this entity surface form:
continental United States
this entity surface form:
continental United States
this entity surface form:
continental United States
this entity surface form:
continental United States
this entity surface form:
continental United States
subject surface form:
King County, Texas
this entity surface form:
continental United States
this entity surface form:
continental United States
this entity surface form:
United States mainland
this entity surface form:
continental United States
this entity surface form:
continental United States
this entity surface form:
continental United States
subject surface form:
Weather Prediction Center
this entity surface form:
Lower 48 states