United States state capitals
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United States state capitals are the cities designated as the administrative and governmental centers of each of the 50 U.S. states.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| United States state capitals canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1279670 — 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: United States state capitals Context triple: [Jefferson City, Missouri, partOf, United States state capitals]
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A.
U.S. states
U.S. states are the 50 constituent political entities that share sovereignty with the federal government of the United States, each with its own constitution, laws, and governance structure.
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B.
Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C. is the capital city of the United States, serving as the nation’s political center and home to its federal government institutions.
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Washington
Washington is a small town in Dutchess County, New York, known for its rural character and the village of Millbrook within its borders.
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D.
Washington
Washington is a U.S. state in the Pacific Northwest known for its diverse landscapes, technology industry centered around Seattle, and significant cultural and economic influence on the West Coast.
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E.
Washington
Washington is a common English surname most famously borne by George Washington, the first president of the United States.
- 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: United States state capitals Target entity description: United States state capitals are the cities designated as the administrative and governmental centers of each of the 50 U.S. states.
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A.
U.S. states
U.S. states are the 50 constituent political entities that share sovereignty with the federal government of the United States, each with its own constitution, laws, and governance structure.
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B.
Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C. is the capital city of the United States, serving as the nation’s political center and home to its federal government institutions.
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C.
Washington
Washington is a small town in Dutchess County, New York, known for its rural character and the village of Millbrook within its borders.
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D.
Washington
Washington is a U.S. state in the Pacific Northwest known for its diverse landscapes, technology industry centered around Seattle, and significant cultural and economic influence on the West Coast.
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E.
Washington
Washington is a common English surname most famously borne by George Washington, the first president of the United States.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (79)
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: United States state capitals Description of subject: United States state capitals are the cities designated as the administrative and governmental centers of each of the 50 U.S. states.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.