Ridgefield, Washington
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Ridgefield, Washington is a small city in southwestern Washington State known for its proximity to rich wetlands and wildlife habitats, including a major national wildlife refuge.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ridgefield, Washington canonical | 4 |
| Ridgefield, Washington, United States | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3082041 — 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: Ridgefield, Washington Context triple: [Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge, locatedNear, Ridgefield, Washington]
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Freeland, Washington
Freeland, Washington is an unincorporated community and census-designated place located on Whidbey Island in Island County, known for its waterfront setting and small-town character.
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B.
Stanwood, Washington
Stanwood, Washington is a small city in Snohomish County known as a gateway to nearby Camano Island and the surrounding coastal and agricultural areas of northwest Washington state.
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C.
West Richland, Washington
West Richland, Washington is a suburban city in Benton County that forms part of the Tri-Cities region in southeastern Washington State.
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D.
Shelton, Washington
Shelton, Washington is a small city in the Pacific Northwest known as the primary urban center of Mason County and a gateway to the Olympic Peninsula.
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E.
Montesano, Washington
Montesano, Washington is a small city in western Washington known for its historic downtown and role as an administrative and commercial hub for the surrounding rural and timber-producing region.
- 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: Ridgefield, Washington Target entity description: Ridgefield, Washington is a small city in southwestern Washington State known for its proximity to rich wetlands and wildlife habitats, including a major national wildlife refuge.
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A.
Freeland, Washington
Freeland, Washington is an unincorporated community and census-designated place located on Whidbey Island in Island County, known for its waterfront setting and small-town character.
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B.
Stanwood, Washington
Stanwood, Washington is a small city in Snohomish County known as a gateway to nearby Camano Island and the surrounding coastal and agricultural areas of northwest Washington state.
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C.
West Richland, Washington
West Richland, Washington is a suburban city in Benton County that forms part of the Tri-Cities region in southeastern Washington State.
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D.
Shelton, Washington
Shelton, Washington is a small city in the Pacific Northwest known as the primary urban center of Mason County and a gateway to the Olympic Peninsula.
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E.
Montesano, Washington
Montesano, Washington is a small city in western Washington known for its historic downtown and role as an administrative and commercial hub for the surrounding rural and timber-producing region.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
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: Ridgefield, Washington Description of subject: Ridgefield, Washington is a small city in southwestern Washington State known for its proximity to rich wetlands and wildlife habitats, including a major national wildlife refuge.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Ridgefield, Washington, United States
subject surface form:
Clark County, Washington