Provo, Utah
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Provo, Utah is a mid-sized city in central Utah known for being home to Brigham Young University and a growing technology and startup scene.
All labels observed (8)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Provo, Utah canonical | 53 |
| Provo | 20 |
| City of Provo | 7 |
| Provo, Utah, United States | 6 |
| Provo city | 2 |
| Provo–Orem metropolitan area | 2 |
| Provo City Center | 1 |
| city of Provo, Utah | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T197454 — 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: Provo, Utah Context triple: [Google Fiber, serviceArea, Provo, Utah]
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A.
Salt Lake City
Salt Lake City is the capital and most populous city of Utah, known for its proximity to the Great Salt Lake, its role as the headquarters of the LDS Church, and its status as a major cultural and economic center of the Intermountain West.
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B.
Reno
Reno is a city in northwestern Nevada known for its casinos, tourism, and proximity to outdoor recreation areas in the Sierra Nevada, including Lake Tahoe.
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C.
Boise, Idaho, United States
Boise is the capital and most populous city of Idaho, known as a regional economic and cultural center in the northwestern United States.
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D.
Tahoe City
Tahoe City is a small resort community in California known as a popular gateway to outdoor recreation and tourism on the shores of Lake Tahoe.
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E.
University of Utah
The University of Utah is a major public research university in Salt Lake City known for its pioneering contributions to computer science, medicine, and engineering.
- 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: Provo, Utah Target entity description: Provo, Utah is a mid-sized city in central Utah known for being home to Brigham Young University and a growing technology and startup scene.
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A.
Salt Lake City
Salt Lake City is the capital and most populous city of Utah, known for its proximity to the Great Salt Lake, its role as the headquarters of the LDS Church, and its status as a major cultural and economic center of the Intermountain West.
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B.
Reno
Reno is a city in northwestern Nevada known for its casinos, tourism, and proximity to outdoor recreation areas in the Sierra Nevada, including Lake Tahoe.
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C.
Boise, Idaho, United States
Boise is the capital and most populous city of Idaho, known as a regional economic and cultural center in the northwestern United States.
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D.
Tahoe City
Tahoe City is a small resort community in California known as a popular gateway to outdoor recreation and tourism on the shores of Lake Tahoe.
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E.
University of Utah
The University of Utah is a major public research university in Salt Lake City known for its pioneering contributions to computer science, medicine, and engineering.
- 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: Provo, Utah Description of subject: Provo, Utah is a mid-sized city in central Utah known for being home to Brigham Young University and a growing technology and startup scene.
Referenced by (92)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Provo
this entity surface form:
Provo City Center
this entity surface form:
Provo
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Provo
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Provo city
this entity surface form:
Provo city
this entity surface form:
Provo
this entity surface form:
Provo
this entity surface form:
Provo
this entity surface form:
city of Provo, Utah
this entity surface form:
Provo, Utah, United States
this entity surface form:
Provo
this entity surface form:
Provo
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Fillmore, Utah
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Provo City Cemetery
subject surface form:
Provo City Cemetery
this entity surface form:
City of Provo
subject surface form:
Provo City Cemetery
this entity surface form:
City of Provo
subject surface form:
Provo City Cemetery
this entity surface form:
Provo
this entity surface form:
Provo, Utah, United States
this entity surface form:
Provo, Utah, United States