US
E391540
The US, or United States, is a federal republic in North America comprising 50 states and known as one of the world's largest economic and military powers.
All labels observed (9)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| US canonical | 335 |
| USA | 26 |
| United States (publication context) | 2 |
| T:US | 1 |
| United States (approximate) | 1 |
| United States (exact site not widely publicized) | 1 |
| United States (informal) | 1 |
| United States (research context) | 1 |
| United States (unspecified) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3506547 — 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: US Context triple: [US7443201022, countryCode, US]
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A.
US
US is the IATA airline designator code assigned to the former American airline US Airways.
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B.
Us
Us is a 2019 horror film written and directed by Jordan Peele that explores themes of identity and duality through a family's terrifying encounter with their doppelgängers.
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C.
Us
"Us" is a soulful pop ballad by British singer-songwriter James Bay that explores themes of hope, connection, and emotional vulnerability.
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D.
EUA
EUA (European University Association) is a major organization representing and supporting higher education institutions and national rectors’ conferences across Europe in areas such as policy, quality assurance, and institutional development.
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E.
Usan
Usan is a small coastal village in Angus, Scotland, known for its fishing heritage and scenic North Sea shoreline.
- 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: US Target entity description: The US, or United States, is a federal republic in North America comprising 50 states and known as one of the world's largest economic and military powers.
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A.
US
US is the IATA airline designator code assigned to the former American airline US Airways.
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B.
Us
Us is a 2019 horror film written and directed by Jordan Peele that explores themes of identity and duality through a family's terrifying encounter with their doppelgängers.
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C.
Us
"Us" is a soulful pop ballad by British singer-songwriter James Bay that explores themes of hope, connection, and emotional vulnerability.
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D.
EUA
EUA (European University Association) is a major organization representing and supporting higher education institutions and national rectors’ conferences across Europe in areas such as policy, quality assurance, and institutional development.
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E.
Usan
Usan is a small coastal village in Angus, Scotland, known for its fishing heritage and scenic North Sea shoreline.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
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: US Description of subject: The US, or United States, is a federal republic in North America comprising 50 states and known as one of the world's largest economic and military powers.
Referenced by (369)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Westland, Michigan
subject surface form:
Fillmore Township, Allegan County, Michigan
this entity surface form:
United States (publication context)
subject surface form:
Dodge City A's
this entity surface form:
USA
subject surface form:
Lipscomb, Alabama