Merriman, Nebraska, United States of America
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Merriman, Nebraska, United States of America is a small rural village in Cherry County best known as the birthplace of Nobel Prize–winning physicist Val Fitch.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Merriman, Nebraska, United States of America canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7378352 — 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: Merriman, Nebraska, United States of America Context triple: [Val Fitch, placeOfBirth, Merriman, Nebraska, United States of America]
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A.
McCook, Nebraska, United States
McCook, Nebraska, United States is a small city in southwestern Nebraska known as a regional hub for agriculture and rail transport.
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B.
Murray, Nebraska
Murray, Nebraska is a small rural village located in Cass County in the eastern part of the state.
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C.
Herman, Nebraska
Herman, Nebraska is a small rural village located in Washington County in the eastern part of the state.
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D.
Murdock, Nebraska
Murdock, Nebraska is a small rural village located in Cass County in the southeastern part of the state.
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E.
Benkelman, Nebraska, United States
Benkelman, Nebraska, United States is a small rural town in southwestern Nebraska known as the birthplace of actor Ward Bond.
- 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: Merriman, Nebraska, United States of America Target entity description: Merriman, Nebraska, United States of America is a small rural village in Cherry County best known as the birthplace of Nobel Prize–winning physicist Val Fitch.
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A.
McCook, Nebraska, United States
McCook, Nebraska, United States is a small city in southwestern Nebraska known as a regional hub for agriculture and rail transport.
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B.
Murray, Nebraska
Murray, Nebraska is a small rural village located in Cass County in the eastern part of the state.
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C.
Herman, Nebraska
Herman, Nebraska is a small rural village located in Washington County in the eastern part of the state.
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D.
Murdock, Nebraska
Murdock, Nebraska is a small rural village located in Cass County in the southeastern part of the state.
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E.
Benkelman, Nebraska, United States
Benkelman, Nebraska, United States is a small rural town in southwestern Nebraska known as the birthplace of actor Ward Bond.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human settlement
ⓘ
village ⓘ |
| coordinateLocation | 42.9225° N, 101.7011° W ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| elevationAboveSeaLevel | 1009 meters ⓘ |
| FIPSCode | 31-31880 ⓘ |
| GNISFeatureID | 0831300 ⓘ |
| hasAreaCode | 308 ⓘ |
| hasClimate | semi-arid climate ⓘ |
| hasCountySeat | Valentine, Nebraska NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasDemographicsCharacteristic |
low population density
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predominantly White population ⓘ |
| hasEducationalInstitution | Cody-Kilgore Public Schools NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasGovernmentType | village board ⓘ |
| hasLandArea | 0.36 square miles ⓘ |
| hasNotablePerson | Val Logsdon Fitch NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPopulation | 128 ⓘ |
| hasPostalCode | 69218 ⓘ |
| hasPrimaryEconomicActivity |
agriculture
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ranching ⓘ |
| hasSettlementType | rural village ⓘ |
| hasTimeZoneDST | Central Daylight Time NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasWaterArea | 0.00 square miles ⓘ |
| inception | 1885 ⓘ |
| isAccessedBy | local county roads ⓘ |
| isInSubdivision | Cherry County, Nebraska NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isPartOf | Cherry County, Nebraska NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isServedBy | Merriman Volunteer Fire Department NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Cherry County, Nebraska NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeTerritorialEntity | Nebraska NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInContinent | North America ⓘ |
| locatedInFederalEntity | Cherry County, Nebraska NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | Sandhills of Nebraska NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Central Time Zone ⓘ |
| locatedNear | South Dakota border ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Nebraska Highway 61 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Samuel Merriman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nearestLargerSettlement | Valentine, Nebraska NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Great Plains NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Merriman, Nebraska NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| populationCensusYear | 2020 ⓘ |
| usesUnitSystem | U.S. customary units ⓘ |
| UTCOffset | −6 ⓘ |
| UTCOffsetDST | −5 ⓘ |
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: Merriman, Nebraska, United States of America Description of subject: Merriman, Nebraska, United States of America is a small rural village in Cherry County best known as the birthplace of Nobel Prize–winning physicist Val Fitch.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.