Waupun, Wisconsin
E437532
city
local history museum
maximum-security prison
minimum-security prison
outdoor sculpture
public park
Waupun, Wisconsin is a small city in Dodge and Fond du Lac counties known for its historic correctional institutions and prominent public sculptures, including the famous "End of the Trail" statue.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Waupun, Wisconsin canonical | 3 |
| Waupun (town), Wisconsin | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4417241 — 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: Waupun, Wisconsin Context triple: [End of the Trail (Waupun), location, Waupun, Wisconsin]
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A.
Wausau, Wisconsin
Wausau, Wisconsin is a small city in north-central Wisconsin known for its significant Hmong American community, outdoor recreation, and regional economic and cultural role.
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B.
De Pere, Wisconsin
De Pere, Wisconsin is a small city in Brown County along the Fox River, just south of Green Bay, known for its historic downtown and St. Norbert College.
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C.
Kaukauna, Wisconsin
Kaukauna, Wisconsin is a small industrial city on the Fox River known historically for its paper mills and hydroelectric power.
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D.
Shawano, Wisconsin
Shawano, Wisconsin is a small city in northeastern Wisconsin known as a regional hub for outdoor recreation and access to nearby lakes and forests.
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E.
Osceola, Wisconsin
Osceola, Wisconsin is a small village in western Wisconsin known as the birthplace of influential American furniture designer and Arts and Crafts movement leader Gustav Stickley.
- 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: Waupun, Wisconsin Target entity description: Waupun, Wisconsin is a small city in Dodge and Fond du Lac counties known for its historic correctional institutions and prominent public sculptures, including the famous "End of the Trail" statue.
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A.
Wausau, Wisconsin
Wausau, Wisconsin is a small city in north-central Wisconsin known for its significant Hmong American community, outdoor recreation, and regional economic and cultural role.
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B.
De Pere, Wisconsin
De Pere, Wisconsin is a small city in Brown County along the Fox River, just south of Green Bay, known for its historic downtown and St. Norbert College.
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C.
Kaukauna, Wisconsin
Kaukauna, Wisconsin is a small industrial city on the Fox River known historically for its paper mills and hydroelectric power.
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D.
Shawano, Wisconsin
Shawano, Wisconsin is a small city in northeastern Wisconsin known as a regional hub for outdoor recreation and access to nearby lakes and forests.
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E.
Osceola, Wisconsin
Osceola, Wisconsin is a small village in western Wisconsin known as the birthplace of influential American furniture designer and Arts and Crafts movement leader Gustav Stickley.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
city
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local history museum ⓘ maximum-security prison ⓘ maximum-security prison ⓘ minimum-security prison ⓘ outdoor sculpture ⓘ public park ⓘ |
| areaCode | 920 ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| county |
Dodge County, Wisconsin
NERFINISHED
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Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Clarence Addison Shaler NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| governmentType | mayor–council government ⓘ |
| hasCorrectionalInstitution |
Dodge Correctional Institution
NERFINISHED
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John C. Burke Correctional Center NERFINISHED ⓘ Waupun Correctional Institution NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMotto | "City of Sculptures" NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMuseum | Waupun Heritage Museum NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNickname | City of Sculptures NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPark | Shaler Park NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSculpture |
Dawn of Day
NERFINISHED
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End of the Trail (Waupun statue) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Citadel NERFINISHED ⓘ The Pioneers NERFINISHED ⓘ The Recording Angel NERFINISHED ⓘ Who Sows Believes in God NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
historic correctional institutions
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public sculptures ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Dodge County, Wisconsin
NERFINISHED
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Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin NERFINISHED ⓘ Waupun, Wisconsin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Central Time Zone ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Horicon Marsh NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| materialUsed | bronze ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Waupun, a Potawatomi word meaning "dawn of day" or "early light" ⓘ |
| operator | Wisconsin Department of Corrections NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| postalCode | 53963 ⓘ |
| sculptor | James Earle Fraser NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| state | Wisconsin ⓘ |
| timeZoneDST |
Central Time Zone
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surface form:
Central Daylight Time
|
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: Waupun, Wisconsin Description of subject: Waupun, Wisconsin is a small city in Dodge and Fond du Lac counties known for its historic correctional institutions and prominent public sculptures, including the famous "End of the Trail" statue.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
End of the Trail (Waupun)
End of the Trail sculpture depicting a weary Native American warrior
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location
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Waupun, Wisconsin
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subject surface form:
End of the Trail
this entity surface form:
Waupun (town), Wisconsin