North Dakota
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North Dakota is a sparsely populated U.S. state known for its Great Plains landscapes, agricultural economy, and significant oil production from the Bakken formation.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| North Dakota canonical | 242 |
| State of North Dakota | 15 |
| North Dakota (as a state observance) | 1 |
| North Dakota (part) | 1 |
| Present-day North Dakota | 1 |
| U.S. state of North Dakota | 1 |
| state of North Dakota | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T20406 — 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: North Dakota Context triple: [Midwestern United States, contains, North Dakota]
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A.
Nebraska
Nebraska is a landlocked U.S. state on the Great Plains known for its agriculture, prairies, and role as a historic crossroads for westward expansion.
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B.
Iowa
Iowa is a Midwestern U.S. state known for its extensive agriculture, especially corn and soybean production, and its role in national politics through the Iowa caucuses.
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C.
Nevada
Nevada is a western U.S. state known for its vast deserts, legalized gambling, and the entertainment hub of Las Vegas.
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D.
Idaho
Idaho is a mountainous, landlocked state in the northwestern United States known for its vast wilderness areas, outdoor recreation, and significant agricultural production, especially potatoes.
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E.
Vermont
Vermont is a small, rural New England state in the northeastern United States, known for its Green Mountains, maple syrup production, and picturesque towns.
- 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: North Dakota Target entity description: North Dakota is a sparsely populated U.S. state known for its Great Plains landscapes, agricultural economy, and significant oil production from the Bakken formation.
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A.
Nebraska
Nebraska is a landlocked U.S. state on the Great Plains known for its agriculture, prairies, and role as a historic crossroads for westward expansion.
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B.
Iowa
Iowa is a Midwestern U.S. state known for its extensive agriculture, especially corn and soybean production, and its role in national politics through the Iowa caucuses.
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C.
Nevada
Nevada is a western U.S. state known for its vast deserts, legalized gambling, and the entertainment hub of Las Vegas.
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D.
Idaho
Idaho is a mountainous, landlocked state in the northwestern United States known for its vast wilderness areas, outdoor recreation, and significant agricultural production, especially potatoes.
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E.
Vermont
Vermont is a small, rural New England state in the northeastern United States, known for its Green Mountains, maple syrup production, and picturesque towns.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
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: North Dakota Description of subject: North Dakota is a sparsely populated U.S. state known for its Great Plains landscapes, agricultural economy, and significant oil production from the Bakken formation.
Referenced by (262)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
State of North Dakota
subject surface form:
West North Central Division
this entity surface form:
State of North Dakota
subject surface form:
School of Law (University of North Dakota)
subject surface form:
School of Law (University of North Dakota)
this entity surface form:
State of North Dakota
subject surface form:
Grand River (South Dakota)
this entity surface form:
State of North Dakota
subject surface form:
Dickinson, North Dakota