Albert Lea, Minnesota
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Albert Lea, Minnesota is a small southern Minnesota city known as a regional hub near the Iowa border, surrounded by lakes and intersected by major highways.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Albert Lea, Minnesota canonical | 7 |
| Albert Lea | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2989986 — 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: Albert Lea, Minnesota Context triple: [U.S. Route 69, terminusB, Albert Lea, Minnesota]
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A.
Lansing, Minnesota
Lansing, Minnesota is a small community located in Mower County in the southeastern part of the state.
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B.
Anoka, Minnesota
Anoka, Minnesota is a city in the Twin Cities metropolitan area known as the "Halloween Capital of the World" for its long-running Halloween celebrations.
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C.
Adams, Minnesota
Adams, Minnesota is a small rural city located in Mower County in the southeastern part of the state.
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D.
Ostrander, Minnesota
Ostrander, Minnesota is a small rural city located in southeastern Minnesota within Fillmore County.
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E.
Burnsville, Minnesota
Burnsville, Minnesota is a suburban city in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan area known for its residential communities, commercial centers, and proximity to major transportation routes.
- 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: Albert Lea, Minnesota Target entity description: Albert Lea, Minnesota is a small southern Minnesota city known as a regional hub near the Iowa border, surrounded by lakes and intersected by major highways.
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A.
Lansing, Minnesota
Lansing, Minnesota is a small community located in Mower County in the southeastern part of the state.
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B.
Anoka, Minnesota
Anoka, Minnesota is a city in the Twin Cities metropolitan area known as the "Halloween Capital of the World" for its long-running Halloween celebrations.
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C.
Adams, Minnesota
Adams, Minnesota is a small rural city located in Mower County in the southeastern part of the state.
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D.
Ostrander, Minnesota
Ostrander, Minnesota is a small rural city located in southeastern Minnesota within Fillmore County.
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E.
Burnsville, Minnesota
Burnsville, Minnesota is a suburban city in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan area known for its residential communities, commercial centers, and proximity to major transportation routes.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
city
ⓘ
county seat ⓘ |
| areaCode | 507 ⓘ |
| climate | humid continental climate ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| county | Freeborn County ⓘ |
| GNISFeatureClass | populated place ⓘ |
| governmentType | mayor–council ⓘ |
| hasBodyOfWater |
Albert Lea Lake
ⓘ
Fountain Lake NERFINISHED ⓘ Lake Chapeau NERFINISHED ⓘ Pickerel Lake NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
regional hub
ⓘ
small city ⓘ surrounded by lakes ⓘ |
| hasLakefront |
Albert Lea Lake
ⓘ
Fountain Lake NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPark | Myre–Big Island State Park ⓘ |
| hasRecreation |
boating on local lakes
ⓘ
fishing on local lakes ⓘ trails in Myre–Big Island State Park ⓘ |
| hasTransportation | interstate highway junction ⓘ |
| intersectedByHighway |
Interstate 35
ⓘ
Interstate 90 ⓘ Minnesota State Highway 13 ⓘ U.S. Route 65 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isCountySeatOf | Freeborn County, Minnesota ⓘ |
| isRegionalHubFor |
northern Iowa
ⓘ
southern Minnesota ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Freeborn County, Minnesota
ⓘ
Minnesota ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| locatedInRegion |
southern Minnesota
ⓘ
surface form:
Southern Minnesota
|
| locatedNear | Iowa border ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
Albert Lea, Minnesota
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Albert Lea
Albert Miller Lea ⓘ |
| partOf | Freeborn County ⓘ |
| postalCodePrefix | 56007 ⓘ |
| region | Midwestern United States ⓘ |
| role |
commercial center for Freeborn County
ⓘ
transportation hub ⓘ |
| state | Minnesota ⓘ |
| timeZone | Central Time Zone ⓘ |
| timeZoneDST |
Central Time Zone
ⓘ
surface form:
Central Daylight Time
|
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: Albert Lea, Minnesota Description of subject: Albert Lea, Minnesota is a small southern Minnesota city known as a regional hub near the Iowa border, surrounded by lakes and intersected by major highways.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Albert Lea
subject surface form:
Southern Minnesota