Auburn, New York
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Auburn, New York is a small city in central New York State historically known as a 19th-century publishing center and the site of Auburn Prison.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Auburn, New York canonical | 49 |
| Auburn, New York, United States | 8 |
| City of Auburn, New York | 7 |
| downtown Auburn, New York | 2 |
| Auburn, New York area | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T216027 — 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: Auburn, New York Context triple: [My Bondage and My Freedom, placeOfPublication, Auburn, New York]
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Pendleton, New York
Pendleton, New York is a small suburban-rural town in Niagara County in Western New York, situated northeast of Buffalo.
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Elmira, New York
Elmira, New York is a small city in upstate New York known historically as a transportation hub, Civil War prison camp site, and the longtime home and burial place of author Mark Twain.
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C.
Smithtown, New York
Smithtown, New York is a suburban town on the North Shore of Long Island in Suffolk County, known for its residential communities, schools, and local parks.
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D.
Getzville, New York
Getzville, New York is a hamlet in the town of Amherst in Erie County, known as a suburban community within the Buffalo–Niagara Falls metropolitan area.
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E.
Clarence, New York
Clarence, New York is a suburban town in Erie County known as the oldest town in the county and part of the Buffalo–Niagara Falls metropolitan area.
- 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: Auburn, New York Target entity description: Auburn, New York is a small city in central New York State historically known as a 19th-century publishing center and the site of Auburn Prison.
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A.
Pendleton, New York
Pendleton, New York is a small suburban-rural town in Niagara County in Western New York, situated northeast of Buffalo.
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B.
Elmira, New York
Elmira, New York is a small city in upstate New York known historically as a transportation hub, Civil War prison camp site, and the longtime home and burial place of author Mark Twain.
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C.
Smithtown, New York
Smithtown, New York is a suburban town on the North Shore of Long Island in Suffolk County, known for its residential communities, schools, and local parks.
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D.
Getzville, New York
Getzville, New York is a hamlet in the town of Amherst in Erie County, known as a suburban community within the Buffalo–Niagara Falls metropolitan area.
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E.
Clarence, New York
Clarence, New York is a suburban town in Erie County known as the oldest town in the county and part of the Buffalo–Niagara Falls metropolitan area.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
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: Auburn, New York Description of subject: Auburn, New York is a small city in central New York State historically known as a 19th-century publishing center and the site of Auburn Prison.
Referenced by (67)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
City of Auburn, New York
this entity surface form:
City of Auburn, New York
this entity surface form:
City of Auburn, New York
this entity surface form:
downtown Auburn, New York
this entity surface form:
City of Auburn, New York
this entity surface form:
Auburn, New York, United States