Watertown, Minnesota
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Watertown, Minnesota is a small city in Carver County known for its rural charm, proximity to the Twin Cities metro area, and access to the Crow River and regional parks.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Watertown, Minnesota canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7533433 — 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: Watertown, Minnesota Context triple: [Carver County, Minnesota, hasCity, Watertown, Minnesota]
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A.
St. Francis, Minnesota
St. Francis, Minnesota is a small city in Anoka County known for its suburban-rural character and location along the Rum River in the northern Twin Cities metropolitan area.
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B.
Owatonna, Minnesota
Owatonna, Minnesota is a small city in southern Minnesota best known as the hometown of electronic music project Owl City.
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C.
Willmar, Minnesota
Willmar, Minnesota is a regional city in west-central Minnesota known as a commercial and transportation hub amid the state’s lake country.
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D.
Ostrander, Minnesota
Ostrander, Minnesota is a small rural city located in southeastern Minnesota within Fillmore County.
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E.
Farmington, Minnesota
Farmington, Minnesota is a suburban city in the Twin Cities metropolitan area known for its residential communities, schools, and small-town character.
- 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: Watertown, Minnesota Target entity description: Watertown, Minnesota is a small city in Carver County known for its rural charm, proximity to the Twin Cities metro area, and access to the Crow River and regional parks.
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A.
St. Francis, Minnesota
St. Francis, Minnesota is a small city in Anoka County known for its suburban-rural character and location along the Rum River in the northern Twin Cities metropolitan area.
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B.
Owatonna, Minnesota
Owatonna, Minnesota is a small city in southern Minnesota best known as the hometown of electronic music project Owl City.
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C.
Willmar, Minnesota
Willmar, Minnesota is a regional city in west-central Minnesota known as a commercial and transportation hub amid the state’s lake country.
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D.
Ostrander, Minnesota
Ostrander, Minnesota is a small rural city located in southeastern Minnesota within Fillmore County.
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E.
Farmington, Minnesota
Farmington, Minnesota is a suburban city in the Twin Cities metropolitan area known for its residential communities, schools, and small-town character.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
city
ⓘ
municipality ⓘ |
| areaCode | 952 ⓘ |
| climate | humid continental climate ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| countrySubdivision |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| county | Carver County, Minnesota NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| economyType | local services and small businesses ⓘ |
| elevationAboveSeaLevel | approximately 948 feet ⓘ |
| feature |
access to outdoor recreation on the Crow River
ⓘ
community parks and trails ⓘ downtown commercial district ⓘ |
| governmentType | mayor–council government ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
access to regional parks
ⓘ
proximity to Twin Cities metropolitan area ⓘ rural charm ⓘ small city ⓘ |
| hasName | Watertown NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPark | regional parks along the Crow River ⓘ |
| hasRegionalContext | exurban community of the Twin Cities ⓘ |
| hasRiver | Crow River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isPartOf |
Carver County, Minnesota
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
State of Minnesota NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| landUse |
agricultural surroundings
ⓘ
residential ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Carver County, Minnesota
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Midwestern United States ⓘ Minnesota ⓘ United States Upper Midwest NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Central Time Zone ⓘ |
| locatedOnWaterway | South Fork Crow River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedWestOf | Minneapolis, Minnesota NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| near | Twin Cities metropolitan area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| officialName | City of Watertown NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| postalCode | 55388 ⓘ |
| primaryLanguage | English ⓘ |
| region | Central Minnesota NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settlementType | city ⓘ |
| state | Minnesota ⓘ |
| subdivisionType | city in Carver County, Minnesota ⓘ |
| timeZone |
Central Time Zone
ⓘ
surface form:
Central Daylight Time
Central Time Zone ⓘ
surface form:
Central Standard Time
|
| transportationAccess |
Carver County Road 10
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Minnesota State Highway 25 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Watertown, Minnesota Description of subject: Watertown, Minnesota is a small city in Carver County known for its rural charm, proximity to the Twin Cities metro area, and access to the Crow River and regional parks.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.