McLeod County, Minnesota
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McLeod County, Minnesota is a predominantly rural county in south-central Minnesota known for its agricultural economy, small towns, and proximity to the Twin Cities metropolitan area.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| McLeod County, Minnesota canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7533454 — 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: McLeod County, Minnesota Context triple: [Carver County, Minnesota, borderedBy, McLeod County, Minnesota]
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A.
Goodhue County, Minnesota
Goodhue County, Minnesota is a county in southeastern Minnesota along the Mississippi River, known for its historic river towns, agricultural landscape, and the city of Red Wing as its county seat.
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B.
Winona County, Minnesota
Winona County, Minnesota is a county in southeastern Minnesota along the Mississippi River, known for its blufflands, river valleys, and the city of Winona as its county seat.
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C.
Martin County, Minnesota
Martin County, Minnesota is a predominantly rural county in southern Minnesota known for its agricultural economy and small towns such as Fairmont, its county seat.
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D.
Fillmore County, Minnesota
Fillmore County, Minnesota is a predominantly rural county in southeastern Minnesota known for its rolling farmland, karst topography, and small historic towns such as Preston and Lanesboro.
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E.
Chisago County, Minnesota
Chisago County, Minnesota is a county in eastern Minnesota known for its lakes, rural communities, and location along the St. Croix River northeast of the Twin Cities 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: McLeod County, Minnesota Target entity description: McLeod County, Minnesota is a predominantly rural county in south-central Minnesota known for its agricultural economy, small towns, and proximity to the Twin Cities metropolitan area.
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A.
Goodhue County, Minnesota
Goodhue County, Minnesota is a county in southeastern Minnesota along the Mississippi River, known for its historic river towns, agricultural landscape, and the city of Red Wing as its county seat.
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B.
Winona County, Minnesota
Winona County, Minnesota is a county in southeastern Minnesota along the Mississippi River, known for its blufflands, river valleys, and the city of Winona as its county seat.
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C.
Martin County, Minnesota
Martin County, Minnesota is a predominantly rural county in southern Minnesota known for its agricultural economy and small towns such as Fairmont, its county seat.
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D.
Fillmore County, Minnesota
Fillmore County, Minnesota is a predominantly rural county in southeastern Minnesota known for its rolling farmland, karst topography, and small historic towns such as Preston and Lanesboro.
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E.
Chisago County, Minnesota
Chisago County, Minnesota is a county in eastern Minnesota known for its lakes, rural communities, and location along the St. Croix River northeast of the Twin Cities metropolitan area.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
county
ⓘ
county in Minnesota ⓘ |
| borderedBy |
Carver County, Minnesota
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Kandiyohi County, Minnesota NERFINISHED ⓘ Meeker County, Minnesota NERFINISHED ⓘ Renville County, Minnesota NERFINISHED ⓘ Sibley County, Minnesota NERFINISHED ⓘ Wright County, Minnesota NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characteristic | predominantly rural ⓘ |
| climate | humid continental climate ⓘ |
| contains |
Brownton, Minnesota
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Glencoe, Minnesota NERFINISHED ⓘ Hutchinson, Minnesota NERFINISHED ⓘ Lester Prairie, Minnesota NERFINISHED ⓘ Plato, Minnesota NERFINISHED ⓘ Silver Lake, Minnesota NERFINISHED ⓘ Stewart, Minnesota NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| countySeat | Glencoe, Minnesota NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| economy |
agriculture
ⓘ
manufacturing ⓘ services ⓘ |
| FIPSCode | 27085 ⓘ |
| GNISID | 00659440 ⓘ |
| governmentType | county government ⓘ |
| hasLandUse |
livestock farming
ⓘ
row-crop agriculture ⓘ |
| hasLargestCity | Hutchinson, Minnesota NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRegion | Great Plains–prairie transition zone NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| legislativeBody | McLeod County Board of Commissioners NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn | south-central Minnesota NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| majorHighway |
Minnesota State Highway 15
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Minnesota State Highway 22 NERFINISHED ⓘ Minnesota State Highway 7 NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 212 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| majorRiver | South Fork Crow River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Martin McLeod NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf |
Twin Cities metropolitan area region
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Midwestern United States ⓘ
surface form:
United States Midwest
|
| regionType | rural county ⓘ |
| seat | Glencoe, Minnesota NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| state | Minnesota ⓘ |
| subdivisionOf | Minnesota NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timeZone |
Central Time Zone
ⓘ
surface form:
Central Daylight Time
Central Time Zone ⓘ
surface form:
Central Standard Time
Central Time Zone ⓘ |
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: McLeod County, Minnesota Description of subject: McLeod County, Minnesota is a predominantly rural county in south-central Minnesota known for its agricultural economy, small towns, and proximity to the Twin Cities metropolitan area.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.