New Ulm, Minnesota
E354898
New Ulm, Minnesota is a small city in south-central Minnesota known for its strong German heritage, historic architecture, and longstanding brewing traditions.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| New Ulm, Minnesota canonical | 4 |
| New Ulm micropolitan area | 1 |
| New Ulm, Minnesota, United States | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3393676 — 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: New Ulm, Minnesota Context triple: [Minnesota River, passesThrough, New Ulm, Minnesota]
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A.
Bloomington, Minnesota
Bloomington, Minnesota is a suburban city in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan area known for hosting major sports teams historically and for being home to the Mall of America.
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B.
Owatonna, Minnesota
Owatonna, Minnesota is a small city in southern Minnesota best known as the hometown of electronic music project Owl City.
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C.
Mankato, Minnesota
Mankato, Minnesota is a city in south-central Minnesota known historically as the site of the largest mass execution in U.S. history following the Dakota War of 1862.
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D.
Faribault, Minnesota
Faribault, Minnesota is a historic city in southern Minnesota known for its manufacturing heritage, diverse community, and proximity to the Cannon and Straight Rivers.
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E.
Moorhead, Minnesota
Moorhead, Minnesota is a city in northwestern Minnesota located along the Red River of the North, forming part of the Fargo–Moorhead metropolitan area.
- 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: New Ulm, Minnesota Target entity description: New Ulm, Minnesota is a small city in south-central Minnesota known for its strong German heritage, historic architecture, and longstanding brewing traditions.
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A.
Bloomington, Minnesota
Bloomington, Minnesota is a suburban city in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan area known for hosting major sports teams historically and for being home to the Mall of America.
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B.
Owatonna, Minnesota
Owatonna, Minnesota is a small city in southern Minnesota best known as the hometown of electronic music project Owl City.
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C.
Mankato, Minnesota
Mankato, Minnesota is a city in south-central Minnesota known historically as the site of the largest mass execution in U.S. history following the Dakota War of 1862.
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D.
Faribault, Minnesota
Faribault, Minnesota is a historic city in southern Minnesota known for its manufacturing heritage, diverse community, and proximity to the Cannon and Straight Rivers.
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E.
Moorhead, Minnesota
Moorhead, Minnesota is a city in northwestern Minnesota located along the Red River of the North, forming part of the Fargo–Moorhead metropolitan area.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: New Ulm, Minnesota Description of subject: New Ulm, Minnesota is a small city in south-central Minnesota known for its strong German heritage, historic architecture, and longstanding brewing traditions.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Southern Minnesota
this entity surface form:
New Ulm micropolitan area
this entity surface form:
New Ulm, Minnesota, United States