Vincennes, Indiana
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Vincennes, Indiana is a historic city in southwestern Indiana known as the state’s oldest city and an early frontier settlement along the Wabash River.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Vincennes, Indiana canonical | 11 |
| Vincennes | 8 |
| Vincennes, Indiana Territory, United States | 2 |
| Vincennes micropolitan area | 1 |
| Vincennes, Indiana Territory | 1 |
| Vincennes, Indiana, United States | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2966299 — 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: Vincennes, Indiana Context triple: [USS Vincennes, namedAfter, Vincennes, Indiana]
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A.
Vincennes
Vincennes is a historic commune just east of Paris, France, known for its medieval Château de Vincennes and long-standing royal connections.
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B.
Mishawaka, Indiana
Mishawaka, Indiana is a city in northern Indiana near South Bend, known for its manufacturing history and as the longtime base of vehicle maker AM General.
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C.
Lafayette, Indiana
Lafayette, Indiana is a mid-sized city in northwestern Indiana known as a regional economic and educational hub near Purdue University.
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D.
Crown Point, Indiana
Crown Point, Indiana is a historic city in northwest Indiana known for its classic courthouse square and role as the county’s governmental and commercial hub.
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E.
Terre Haute, Indiana
Terre Haute, Indiana is a mid-sized city in western Indiana known historically as a regional industrial and transportation hub along major rail and river routes.
- 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: Vincennes, Indiana Target entity description: Vincennes, Indiana is a historic city in southwestern Indiana known as the state’s oldest city and an early frontier settlement along the Wabash River.
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A.
Vincennes
Vincennes is a historic commune just east of Paris, France, known for its medieval Château de Vincennes and long-standing royal connections.
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B.
Mishawaka, Indiana
Mishawaka, Indiana is a city in northern Indiana near South Bend, known for its manufacturing history and as the longtime base of vehicle maker AM General.
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C.
Lafayette, Indiana
Lafayette, Indiana is a mid-sized city in northwestern Indiana known as a regional economic and educational hub near Purdue University.
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D.
Crown Point, Indiana
Crown Point, Indiana is a historic city in northwest Indiana known for its classic courthouse square and role as the county’s governmental and commercial hub.
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E.
Terre Haute, Indiana
Terre Haute, Indiana is a mid-sized city in western Indiana known historically as a regional industrial and transportation hub along major rail and river routes.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: Vincennes, Indiana Description of subject: Vincennes, Indiana is a historic city in southwestern Indiana known as the state’s oldest city and an early frontier settlement along the Wabash River.
Referenced by (24)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
USS Vincennes
this entity surface form:
Vincennes, Indiana, United States
this entity surface form:
Vincennes, Indiana Territory, United States
this entity surface form:
Vincennes, Indiana Territory
this entity surface form:
Vincennes
this entity surface form:
Vincennes
this entity surface form:
Vincennes
this entity surface form:
Vincennes, Indiana Territory, United States
this entity surface form:
Vincennes
subject surface form:
USS Vincennes (CA-44)
this entity surface form:
Vincennes
this entity surface form:
Vincennes micropolitan area
this entity surface form:
Vincennes
subject surface form:
Gimbels
this entity surface form:
Vincennes
this entity surface form:
Vincennes