contemporary United States
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The contemporary United States is a modern, culturally diverse, and technologically advanced nation characterized by its global political influence, complex social dynamics, and rapidly evolving media and youth culture.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| contemporary United States canonical | 13 |
| present-day United States | 6 |
| American society | 1 |
| United States in the 2010s | 1 |
| post-9/11 United States | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2995635 — 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: contemporary United States Context triple: [Horse Girl, setting, contemporary United States]
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contiguous United States
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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US
US is the IATA airline designator code assigned to the former American airline US Airways.
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America
America is the landmass in the Western Hemisphere comprising the continents of North and South America, widely recognized for its vast geographic, cultural, and political diversity.
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D.
America
"America" is a lively, satirical musical number from *West Side Story* that contrasts the promises and prejudices of life in the United States as debated by Puerto Rican immigrants.
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E.
America
"America" is a seminal and politically charged Judge Dredd storyline that explores themes of democracy, authoritarianism, and personal freedom within the dystopian world of Mega-City One.
- 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: contemporary United States Target entity description: The contemporary United States is a modern, culturally diverse, and technologically advanced nation characterized by its global political influence, complex social dynamics, and rapidly evolving media and youth culture.
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A.
contiguous United States
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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B.
US
US is the IATA airline designator code assigned to the former American airline US Airways.
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C.
America
America is the landmass in the Western Hemisphere comprising the continents of North and South America, widely recognized for its vast geographic, cultural, and political diversity.
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D.
America
"America" is a lively, satirical musical number from *West Side Story* that contrasts the promises and prejudices of life in the United States as debated by Puerto Rican immigrants.
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E.
America
"America" is a seminal and politically charged Judge Dredd storyline that explores themes of democracy, authoritarianism, and personal freedom within the dystopian world of Mega-City One.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (56)
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: contemporary United States Description of subject: The contemporary United States is a modern, culturally diverse, and technologically advanced nation characterized by its global political influence, complex social dynamics, and rapidly evolving media and youth culture.
Referenced by (22)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
American society
this entity surface form:
present-day United States
subject surface form:
Sweetness (God Help the Child)
this entity surface form:
present-day United States
this entity surface form:
post-9/11 United States
subject surface form:
Adjustment Team
this entity surface form:
United States in the 2010s
this entity surface form:
present-day United States
When Life Gives You Pears: The Healing Power of Family, Faith, and Funny People
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setting
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contemporary United States
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this entity surface form:
present-day United States
subject surface form:
Neusiok
this entity surface form:
present-day United States
this entity surface form:
present-day United States