Williams Bay, Wisconsin
E108533
Williams Bay, Wisconsin is a small village on the shores of Geneva Lake best known as the home of the historic Yerkes Observatory.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Williams Bay, Wisconsin canonical | 13 |
| Williams Bay, Wisconsin, United States | 2 |
| Williams Bay Fire Department | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T823307 — 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: Williams Bay, Wisconsin Context triple: [Yerkes Observatory, locatedIn, Williams Bay, Wisconsin]
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Green Bay (the arm of Lake Michigan)
Green Bay is a sub-basin of Lake Michigan forming a long, narrow inlet along the coasts of Wisconsin and Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.
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B.
Lake Waubesa
Lake Waubesa is a freshwater lake in south-central Wisconsin that forms part of the Yahara River chain and serves as a popular site for recreation and wildlife habitat near Madison.
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Lake Calhoun (Bde Maka Ska)
Lake Calhoun (Bde Maka Ska) is the largest lake in Minneapolis, Minnesota, popular for recreation and known for its Dakota name reflecting the area’s Indigenous heritage.
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D.
Lake Mendota
Lake Mendota is a large freshwater lake in Madison, Wisconsin, known for its recreational activities, scenic shoreline, and role as a central feature of the city and the University of Wisconsin–Madison campus.
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E.
Cedar Lake
Cedar Lake is a popular recreational lake in Minneapolis, Minnesota, known for its beaches, trails, and natural surroundings within the city's Chain of Lakes.
- 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: Williams Bay, Wisconsin Target entity description: Williams Bay, Wisconsin is a small village on the shores of Geneva Lake best known as the home of the historic Yerkes Observatory.
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A.
Green Bay (the arm of Lake Michigan)
Green Bay is a sub-basin of Lake Michigan forming a long, narrow inlet along the coasts of Wisconsin and Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.
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B.
Lake Waubesa
Lake Waubesa is a freshwater lake in south-central Wisconsin that forms part of the Yahara River chain and serves as a popular site for recreation and wildlife habitat near Madison.
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C.
Lake Calhoun (Bde Maka Ska)
Lake Calhoun (Bde Maka Ska) is the largest lake in Minneapolis, Minnesota, popular for recreation and known for its Dakota name reflecting the area’s Indigenous heritage.
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D.
Lake Mendota
Lake Mendota is a large freshwater lake in Madison, Wisconsin, known for its recreational activities, scenic shoreline, and role as a central feature of the city and the University of Wisconsin–Madison campus.
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E.
Cedar Lake
Cedar Lake is a popular recreational lake in Minneapolis, Minnesota, known for its beaches, trails, and natural surroundings within the city's Chain of Lakes.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Williams Bay, Wisconsin Description of subject: Williams Bay, Wisconsin is a small village on the shores of Geneva Lake best known as the home of the historic Yerkes Observatory.
Referenced by (16)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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linked to: Williams Bay, Wisconsin