Bloomington
E214116
Bloomington is a major suburban city in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan area, best known as the home of the Mall of America and a significant regional commercial and hospitality hub.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Bloomington canonical | 12 |
| City of Bloomington | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1501306 — 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: Bloomington Context triple: [Minnesota, hasMajorCity, Bloomington]
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A.
Bloomington, Indiana
Bloomington, Indiana is a Midwestern college town best known as the home of Indiana University and a historic hub for the Indiana limestone industry.
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B.
Bloomington, Illinois
Bloomington, Illinois is a central Illinois city known as a regional hub for education, insurance, and transportation, and for being home to Illinois State University (in adjacent Normal) and major corporate offices.
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C.
South Bend, Indiana
South Bend, Indiana is a mid-sized city in northern Indiana known for its manufacturing heritage, proximity to the University of Notre Dame, and role as an economic and cultural hub of the region.
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D.
Terre Haute, Indiana
Terre Haute, Indiana is a mid-sized city in western Indiana known historically as a regional industrial and transportation hub along major rail and river routes.
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E.
Notre Dame, Indiana
Notre Dame, Indiana is an unincorporated community in northern Indiana best known as the home of the University of Notre Dame and its surrounding academic institutions.
- 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: Bloomington Target entity description: Bloomington is a major suburban city in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan area, best known as the home of the Mall of America and a significant regional commercial and hospitality hub.
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A.
Bloomington, Indiana
Bloomington, Indiana is a Midwestern college town best known as the home of Indiana University and a historic hub for the Indiana limestone industry.
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B.
Bloomington, Illinois
Bloomington, Illinois is a central Illinois city known as a regional hub for education, insurance, and transportation, and for being home to Illinois State University (in adjacent Normal) and major corporate offices.
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C.
South Bend, Indiana
South Bend, Indiana is a mid-sized city in northern Indiana known for its manufacturing heritage, proximity to the University of Notre Dame, and role as an economic and cultural hub of the region.
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D.
Terre Haute, Indiana
Terre Haute, Indiana is a mid-sized city in western Indiana known historically as a regional industrial and transportation hub along major rail and river routes.
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E.
Notre Dame, Indiana
Notre Dame, Indiana is an unincorporated community in northern Indiana best known as the home of the University of Notre Dame and its surrounding academic institutions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Bloomington Description of subject: Bloomington is a major suburban city in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan area, best known as the home of the Mall of America and a significant regional commercial and hospitality hub.
Referenced by (15)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Bloomington
linked to: Bloomington
linked to: Bloomington
subject linked to:
Minnesota North Stars (partial use)
subject linked to:
METRO Blue Line light rail station