Wells Township, Minnesota
E297984
Wells Township, Minnesota is a rural civil township located within Rice County in the U.S. state of Minnesota.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Wells Township, Minnesota canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2764870 — 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: Wells Township, Minnesota Context triple: [Rice County, Minnesota, containsSettlement, Wells Township, Minnesota]
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A.
Waverly, Minnesota
Waverly, Minnesota is a small city in Wright County known historically as the rural hometown and death place of former U.S. Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey.
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B.
Waltham, Minnesota
Waltham, Minnesota is a small rural city located in Mower County in the southeastern part of the state.
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C.
Brownsville Township, Minnesota
Brownsville Township, Minnesota is a rural civil township located in southeastern Minnesota within Fillmore County.
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D.
Adams Township, Minnesota
Adams Township, Minnesota is a rural civil township located in Mower County in the southern part of the state.
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E.
Chatfield, Minnesota
Chatfield, Minnesota is a small city in southeastern Minnesota known for its historic downtown and annual Western Days celebration.
- 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: Wells Township, Minnesota Target entity description: Wells Township, Minnesota is a rural civil township located within Rice County in the U.S. state of Minnesota.
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A.
Waverly, Minnesota
Waverly, Minnesota is a small city in Wright County known historically as the rural hometown and death place of former U.S. Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey.
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B.
Waltham, Minnesota
Waltham, Minnesota is a small rural city located in Mower County in the southeastern part of the state.
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C.
Brownsville Township, Minnesota
Brownsville Township, Minnesota is a rural civil township located in southeastern Minnesota within Fillmore County.
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D.
Adams Township, Minnesota
Adams Township, Minnesota is a rural civil township located in Mower County in the southern part of the state.
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E.
Chatfield, Minnesota
Chatfield, Minnesota is a small city in southeastern Minnesota known for its historic downtown and annual Western Days celebration.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
civil township
ⓘ
township in Minnesota ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| countryCode | US ⓘ |
| countrySubdivision | Rice County, Minnesota ⓘ |
| county | Rice County, Minnesota ⓘ |
| GNISFeatureClass | civil ⓘ |
| governmentType | civil township ⓘ |
| hasJurisdiction | local government of Wells Township, Minnesota ⓘ |
| hasLandUse |
agricultural
ⓘ
residential ⓘ |
| hasSettlementType | township ⓘ |
| isInCountySubdivision | Rice County, Minnesota ⓘ |
| isInMidwesternUnitedStates | true ⓘ |
| isPartOfRegion |
southern Minnesota
ⓘ
surface form:
Southern Minnesota
|
| isPopulatedPlace | true ⓘ |
| isRural | true ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Minnesota
ⓘ
Rice County, Minnesota ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| namedAfter | Wells, Minnesota ⓘ |
| state | Minnesota ⓘ |
| stateCode | MN ⓘ |
| timeZone | Central Time Zone ⓘ |
| timeZoneDST |
Central Time Zone
ⓘ
surface form:
Central Daylight Time
|
| timeZoneStandard |
Central Time Zone
ⓘ
surface form:
Central Standard Time
|
| UTCOffsetDST | −5 ⓘ |
| UTCOffsetStandard | −6 ⓘ |
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: Wells Township, Minnesota Description of subject: Wells Township, Minnesota is a rural civil township located within Rice County in the U.S. state of Minnesota.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.