Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin
E714828
Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin is a historic Mississippi River city in southwestern Wisconsin known as one of the state’s oldest European settlements and a longtime regional trading center.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin canonical | 4 |
| Prairie du Chien | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7842820 — 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: Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin Context triple: [Wisconsin River, flowsThrough, Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin]
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A.
Prairie du Sac, Wisconsin
Prairie du Sac, Wisconsin is a small village in Sauk County known for its scenic location along the Wisconsin River and its historic downtown and nearby hydroelectric dam.
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B.
Marinette, Wisconsin
Marinette, Wisconsin is a small industrial city in northeastern Wisconsin on the shore of Green Bay, known historically for shipbuilding and its location opposite Menominee, Michigan.
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C.
Fond du Lac, Wisconsin
Fond du Lac, Wisconsin is a small city in east-central Wisconsin known as a regional commercial center at the southern tip of Lake Winnebago.
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D.
Elkhorn, Wisconsin
Elkhorn, Wisconsin is a small city in southeastern Wisconsin known as the administrative and commercial hub of Walworth County.
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E.
La Pointe, Wisconsin
La Pointe, Wisconsin is a small town located on Madeline Island in Lake Superior, known for its scenic beauty, tourism, and Ojibwe cultural heritage.
- 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: Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin Target entity description: Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin is a historic Mississippi River city in southwestern Wisconsin known as one of the state’s oldest European settlements and a longtime regional trading center.
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A.
Prairie du Sac, Wisconsin
Prairie du Sac, Wisconsin is a small village in Sauk County known for its scenic location along the Wisconsin River and its historic downtown and nearby hydroelectric dam.
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B.
Marinette, Wisconsin
Marinette, Wisconsin is a small industrial city in northeastern Wisconsin on the shore of Green Bay, known historically for shipbuilding and its location opposite Menominee, Michigan.
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C.
Fond du Lac, Wisconsin
Fond du Lac, Wisconsin is a small city in east-central Wisconsin known as a regional commercial center at the southern tip of Lake Winnebago.
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D.
Elkhorn, Wisconsin
Elkhorn, Wisconsin is a small city in southeastern Wisconsin known as the administrative and commercial hub of Walworth County.
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E.
La Pointe, Wisconsin
La Pointe, Wisconsin is a small town located on Madeline Island in Lake Superior, known for its scenic beauty, tourism, and Ojibwe cultural heritage.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | city ⓘ |
| borderWith | Iowa (across the Mississippi River) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| climate | humid continental climate ⓘ |
| connectedBy |
U.S. Route 18
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Wisconsin Highway 35 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| county | Crawford County, Wisconsin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| earlySettlers |
French fur traders
ⓘ
Native American communities ⓘ |
| economyIncludes |
retail trade
ⓘ
river-related commerce ⓘ tourism ⓘ |
| foundedAsSettlement | 18th century ⓘ |
| governingBody | City of Prairie du Chien government NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAreaCode | 608 ⓘ |
| hasBridgeTo | Iowa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
historic downtown
ⓘ
levees along Mississippi River ⓘ riverfront parks ⓘ |
| hasHistoricSite |
Fort Crawford
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Old French Cemetery NERFINISHED ⓘ Prairie du Chien Historic District NERFINISHED ⓘ Villa Louis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMuseum |
Fort Crawford Museum
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Villa Louis Historic Site museum NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNearbyProtectedArea |
Effigy Mounds National Monument (across river in Iowa)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Wyalusing State Park NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPostalCode | 53821 ⓘ |
| historicalEraImportant |
19th-century frontier period
ⓘ
fur trade era ⓘ |
| knownFor |
being one of Wisconsin’s oldest European settlements
ⓘ
historic fur trade center ⓘ historic river port ⓘ regional trading center ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Crawford County seat region
ⓘ
southwestern Wisconsin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedNear | confluence of the Wisconsin River and Mississippi River ⓘ |
| locatedOnRiver | Mississippi River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedAfter | French phrase meaning “Dog Prairie” ⓘ |
| partOf | Driftless Area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | Upper Midwest NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| servedAs |
important fur trade post
ⓘ
military post location ⓘ |
| state | Wisconsin ⓘ |
| timeZone | 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: Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin Description of subject: Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin is a historic Mississippi River city in southwestern Wisconsin known as one of the state’s oldest European settlements and a longtime regional trading center.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Prairie du Chien