Indiana
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Indiana is a U.S. state known for its manufacturing base, rich agricultural land, and iconic events like the Indianapolis 500.
All labels observed (14)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Indiana canonical | 2,518 |
| State of Indiana | 196 |
| Indiana, United States | 15 |
| U.S. state of Indiana | 9 |
| state of Indiana | 6 |
| Hoosier State | 2 |
| Hoosier | 1 |
| Indiana (former) | 1 |
| Indiana (within the film's story) | 1 |
| Indiana Territory | 1 |
| Indiana – IN | 1 |
| Indiana, Our Indiana | 1 |
| Indiana, United States of America | 1 |
| The Hoosier State | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T20399 — 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: Indiana Context triple: [Midwestern United States, contains, Indiana]
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A.
Illinois
Illinois is a Midwestern U.S. state known for its major metropolis Chicago, diverse economy, and significant political and transportation influence.
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B.
Ohio
Ohio is a Midwestern U.S. state known for its diverse economy, major cities like Columbus, Cleveland, and Cincinnati, and its significant role in national politics as a historic swing state.
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C.
Wisconsin
Wisconsin is a U.S. state in the Upper Midwest known for its dairy industry, Great Lakes shorelines, and mix of rural landscapes and industrial cities.
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D.
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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E.
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.
- 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: Indiana Target entity description: Indiana is a U.S. state known for its manufacturing base, rich agricultural land, and iconic events like the Indianapolis 500.
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A.
Illinois
Illinois is a Midwestern U.S. state known for its major metropolis Chicago, diverse economy, and significant political and transportation influence.
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B.
Ohio
Ohio is a Midwestern U.S. state known for its diverse economy, major cities like Columbus, Cleveland, and Cincinnati, and its significant role in national politics as a historic swing state.
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C.
Wisconsin
Wisconsin is a U.S. state in the Upper Midwest known for its dairy industry, Great Lakes shorelines, and mix of rural landscapes and industrial cities.
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D.
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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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (54)
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: Indiana Description of subject: Indiana is a U.S. state known for its manufacturing base, rich agricultural land, and iconic events like the Indianapolis 500.
Referenced by (2,754)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
State of Indiana
subject surface form:
Close Encounters of the Third Kind