Normal
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Normal is a central Illinois town best known as the home of Illinois State University and part of the twin-city community with Bloomington.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Normal canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3624624 — 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: Normal Context triple: [Bloomington–Normal metropolitan area, contains, Normal]
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Approaching Normal
Approaching Normal is a studio album by American alternative rock band Blue October, known for its emotionally charged lyrics and polished, radio-friendly sound.
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Regulares
Regulares are elite light infantry units of the Spanish Army historically composed of indigenous Moroccan soldiers led by Spanish officers, renowned for their role in colonial campaigns and the Spanish Civil War.
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Normal College
Normal College was the 19th-century teacher-training institution that evolved into what is now Duke University.
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Nice
Nice is a prominent Mediterranean coastal city on the French Riviera, known for its mild climate, beaches, and vibrant cultural life.
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Nice
Nice is a cabin class offered by Breeze Airways that provides a standard, budget-friendly economy experience for passengers.
- 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: Normal Target entity description: Normal is a central Illinois town best known as the home of Illinois State University and part of the twin-city community with Bloomington.
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A.
Approaching Normal
Approaching Normal is a studio album by American alternative rock band Blue October, known for its emotionally charged lyrics and polished, radio-friendly sound.
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B.
Regulares
Regulares are elite light infantry units of the Spanish Army historically composed of indigenous Moroccan soldiers led by Spanish officers, renowned for their role in colonial campaigns and the Spanish Civil War.
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C.
Normal College
Normal College was the 19th-century teacher-training institution that evolved into what is now Duke University.
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D.
Nice
Nice is a prominent Mediterranean coastal city on the French Riviera, known for its mild climate, beaches, and vibrant cultural life.
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E.
Nice
Nice is a cabin class offered by Breeze Airways that provides a standard, budget-friendly economy experience for passengers.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
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: Normal Description of subject: Normal is a central Illinois town best known as the home of Illinois State University and part of the twin-city community with Bloomington.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.