Northwest Angle
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The Northwest Angle is a small exclave of Minnesota that forms the northernmost point of the contiguous United States, separated from the rest of the state by Lake of the Woods and the Canadian border.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Northwest Angle canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1652291 — 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: Northwest Angle Context triple: [Lake of the Woods, hasFeature, Northwest Angle]
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A.
Southesk
Southesk is the traditional war cry associated with Clan Carnegie, a Scottish noble family from Angus.
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B.
Northwestern Washington
Northwestern Washington is a geographic region of the U.S. state of Washington encompassing its far northwestern counties along the Strait of Juan de Fuca and Puget Sound.
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C.
North West Slopes
North West Slopes is an agricultural and pastoral region of north-central New South Wales, Australia, characterized by undulating plains and foothills between the coastal ranges and the western plains.
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D.
Northeast Ridge
Northeast Ridge is a popular standard hiking route used to ascend Mount Elbert, the highest peak in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado.
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E.
Wauchope
Wauchope is a rural town in New South Wales, Australia, known as a gateway to the hinterland near Port Macquarie and the surrounding Mid North Coast region.
- 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: Northwest Angle Target entity description: The Northwest Angle is a small exclave of Minnesota that forms the northernmost point of the contiguous United States, separated from the rest of the state by Lake of the Woods and the Canadian border.
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A.
Southesk
Southesk is the traditional war cry associated with Clan Carnegie, a Scottish noble family from Angus.
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B.
Northwestern Washington
Northwestern Washington is a geographic region of the U.S. state of Washington encompassing its far northwestern counties along the Strait of Juan de Fuca and Puget Sound.
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C.
North West Slopes
North West Slopes is an agricultural and pastoral region of north-central New South Wales, Australia, characterized by undulating plains and foothills between the coastal ranges and the western plains.
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D.
Northeast Ridge
Northeast Ridge is a popular standard hiking route used to ascend Mount Elbert, the highest peak in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado.
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E.
Wauchope
Wauchope is a rural town in New South Wales, Australia, known as a gateway to the hinterland near Port Macquarie and the surrounding Mid North Coast region.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
exclave
ⓘ
populated place ⓘ unincorporated territory ⓘ |
| accessibleBy |
boat from other parts of Minnesota
ⓘ
ice road in winter ⓘ road through Manitoba ⓘ |
| areaCode | 218 ⓘ |
| boundaryClarifiedBy | Webster–Ashburton Treaty ⓘ |
| boundaryDefinedBy | Treaty of Paris (1783) ⓘ |
| climate | humid continental climate ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| elevation | approximately 330 meters ⓘ |
| formedBy | Treaty of Paris (1783) ⓘ |
| governedAs | unorganized territory of Lake of the Woods County ⓘ |
| hasBorderWith |
Lake of the Woods
ⓘ
Manitoba ⓘ Ontario ⓘ |
| hasCanadianBorderCrossing | NWA remote customs reporting site ⓘ |
| hasCustomsReportingRequirement | report to U.S. Customs and Border Protection when entering from Canada ⓘ |
| hasIndigenousTerritoryNearby |
territory of the Northwest Angle 33 First Nation
ⓘ
territory of the Red Lake Nation ⓘ |
| hasLatitude | approximately 49.3 degrees north ⓘ |
| hasLongitude | approximately 95.1 degrees west ⓘ |
| hasNearbyProtectedArea |
Garden Island State Recreation Area
ⓘ
Lake of the Woods (Minnesota) state water access sites ⓘ |
| hasSchoolDistrict |
Warroad Public Schools
ⓘ
linked to:
Warroad High School
|
| hasSettlement | Angle Inlet ⓘ |
| isOnlyLandBorderOf | contiguous United States with Manitoba ⓘ |
| isOnlyPartOf | Minnesota located north of the 49th parallel ⓘ |
| knownFor |
fishing tourism
ⓘ
remote wilderness ⓘ |
| landUse |
forestry
ⓘ
recreation and tourism ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Lake of the Woods County
ⓘ
Minnesota ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Lake of the Woods ⓘ |
| mapFeatureType | peninsula and islands on Lake of the Woods ⓘ |
| namedAfter | northwest angle of the Lake of the Woods ⓘ |
| northernmostPointOf |
Minnesota
ⓘ
contiguous United States ⓘ |
| partOf | contiguous United States ⓘ |
| populationCensus2010 | 119 ⓘ |
| populationCensus2020 | 100 ⓘ |
| postalCode | 56711 ⓘ |
| separatedBy |
Canada–United States border
ⓘ
Lake of the Woods ⓘ |
| separatedFrom | rest of Minnesota ⓘ |
| 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: Northwest Angle Description of subject: The Northwest Angle is a small exclave of Minnesota that forms the northernmost point of the contiguous United States, separated from the rest of the state by Lake of the Woods and the Canadian border.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.