Minnesota
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Minnesota is a U.S. state known for its numerous lakes, cold winters, and vibrant cultural and economic centers like Minneapolis–Saint Paul.
All labels observed (20)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T20403 — 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: Minnesota Context triple: [Midwestern United States, contains, Minnesota]
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A.
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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B.
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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C.
North Dakota
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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D.
South Dakota
South Dakota is a largely rural U.S. state known for the Black Hills, Mount Rushmore, and its Native American heritage.
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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: Minnesota Target entity description: Minnesota is a U.S. state known for its numerous lakes, cold winters, and vibrant cultural and economic centers like Minneapolis–Saint Paul.
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A.
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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B.
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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C.
North Dakota
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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D.
South Dakota
South Dakota is a largely rural U.S. state known for the Black Hills, Mount Rushmore, and its Native American heritage.
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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 (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: Minnesota Description of subject: Minnesota is a U.S. state known for its numerous lakes, cold winters, and vibrant cultural and economic centers like Minneapolis–Saint Paul.
Referenced by (2,555)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
State of Minnesota
subject surface form:
La Crosse–Onalaska metropolitan area
subject surface form:
La Crosse–Onalaska metropolitan area
subject surface form:
La Crosse–Onalaska metropolitan area
subject surface form:
Roseau, Minnesota
this entity surface form:
Minnesota, United States
this entity surface form:
Minnesota, United States
subject surface form:
Institute of Technology (University of Minnesota)
subject surface form:
College of Science and Engineering