La Crosse-Onalaska metropolitan area
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The La Crosse–Onalaska metropolitan area is a bi-state urban region centered on the cities of La Crosse, Wisconsin, and Onalaska, encompassing surrounding communities along the upper Mississippi River.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| La Crosse metropolitan area | 6 |
| La Crosse MSA | 1 |
| La Crosse urban area | 1 |
| La Crosse-Onalaska metropolitan area canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3626167 — 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: La Crosse-Onalaska metropolitan area Context triple: [La Crosse, locatedInMetropolitanArea, La Crosse-Onalaska metropolitan area]
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A.
La Crosse
La Crosse is a mid-sized city in western Wisconsin known for its location along the Mississippi River, historic downtown, and regional educational and healthcare institutions.
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B.
Cedar Rapids metropolitan area
The Cedar Rapids metropolitan area is a regional urban and economic hub in eastern Iowa centered on the city of Cedar Rapids and its surrounding counties.
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C.
Iowa City metropolitan area
The Iowa City metropolitan area is a regional urban and economic hub in eastern Iowa centered on the city of Iowa City and its surrounding communities.
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D.
Sioux City metropolitan area
The Sioux City metropolitan area is a multi-state urban region centered on Sioux City, Iowa, encompassing surrounding communities in Iowa, Nebraska, and South Dakota.
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E.
Eau Claire, Wisconsin
Eau Claire, Wisconsin is a small city in western Wisconsin known for its vibrant indie music scene and as the hometown of the band Bon Iver.
- 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: La Crosse-Onalaska metropolitan area Target entity description: The La Crosse–Onalaska metropolitan area is a bi-state urban region centered on the cities of La Crosse, Wisconsin, and Onalaska, encompassing surrounding communities along the upper Mississippi River.
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A.
La Crosse
La Crosse is a mid-sized city in western Wisconsin known for its location along the Mississippi River, historic downtown, and regional educational and healthcare institutions.
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B.
Cedar Rapids metropolitan area
The Cedar Rapids metropolitan area is a regional urban and economic hub in eastern Iowa centered on the city of Cedar Rapids and its surrounding counties.
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C.
Iowa City metropolitan area
The Iowa City metropolitan area is a regional urban and economic hub in eastern Iowa centered on the city of Iowa City and its surrounding communities.
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Sioux City metropolitan area
The Sioux City metropolitan area is a multi-state urban region centered on Sioux City, Iowa, encompassing surrounding communities in Iowa, Nebraska, and South Dakota.
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E.
Eau Claire, Wisconsin
Eau Claire, Wisconsin is a small city in western Wisconsin known for its vibrant indie music scene and as the hometown of the band Bon Iver.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
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: La Crosse-Onalaska metropolitan area Description of subject: The La Crosse–Onalaska metropolitan area is a bi-state urban region centered on the cities of La Crosse, Wisconsin, and Onalaska, encompassing surrounding communities along the upper Mississippi River.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Western Wisconsin
this entity surface form:
La Crosse metropolitan area
this entity surface form:
La Crosse metropolitan area
this entity surface form:
La Crosse urban area
this entity surface form:
La Crosse metropolitan area
La Crosse-Onalaska metropolitan area
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abbreviation
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La Crosse-Onalaska metropolitan area
self-linksurface differs
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subject surface form:
La Crosse–Onalaska metropolitan area
this entity surface form:
La Crosse MSA
this entity surface form:
La Crosse metropolitan area
this entity surface form:
La Crosse metropolitan area
this entity surface form:
La Crosse metropolitan area