Idaho Territory
E231661
Idaho Territory was a historical U.S. territory (1863–1890) in the Pacific Northwest and Mountain West that preceded the state of Idaho.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Idaho Territory canonical | 15 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1992696 — 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: Idaho Territory Context triple: [Caleb Lyon, workLocation, Idaho Territory]
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A.
Dakota Territory
Dakota Territory was a 19th-century organized incorporated territory of the United States that once encompassed the areas that later became North Dakota, South Dakota, and parts of neighboring states.
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B.
Arkansas Territory
Arkansas Territory was an organized incorporated territory of the United States from 1819 to 1836 that preceded the state of Arkansas and encompassed parts of what is now Oklahoma.
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C.
Oklahoma Territory
Oklahoma Territory was a historical U.S. territory in the late 19th and early 20th centuries that preceded the formation of the state of Oklahoma.
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D.
New Mexico Territory
New Mexico Territory was a large U.S. territorial jurisdiction in the American Southwest, organized in 1850 and encompassing present-day New Mexico and Arizona as well as parts of surrounding states before later being subdivided into smaller territories and states.
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E.
Idaho
Idaho is a mountainous, landlocked state in the northwestern United States known for its vast wilderness areas, outdoor recreation, and significant agricultural production, especially potatoes.
- 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: Idaho Territory Target entity description: Idaho Territory was a historical U.S. territory (1863–1890) in the Pacific Northwest and Mountain West that preceded the state of Idaho.
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A.
Dakota Territory
Dakota Territory was a 19th-century organized incorporated territory of the United States that once encompassed the areas that later became North Dakota, South Dakota, and parts of neighboring states.
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B.
Arkansas Territory
Arkansas Territory was an organized incorporated territory of the United States from 1819 to 1836 that preceded the state of Arkansas and encompassed parts of what is now Oklahoma.
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C.
Oklahoma Territory
Oklahoma Territory was a historical U.S. territory in the late 19th and early 20th centuries that preceded the formation of the state of Oklahoma.
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D.
New Mexico Territory
New Mexico Territory was a large U.S. territorial jurisdiction in the American Southwest, organized in 1850 and encompassing present-day New Mexico and Arizona as well as parts of surrounding states before later being subdivided into smaller territories and states.
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E.
Idaho
Idaho is a mountainous, landlocked state in the northwestern United States known for its vast wilderness areas, outdoor recreation, and significant agricultural production, especially potatoes.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Idaho Territory Description of subject: Idaho Territory was a historical U.S. territory (1863–1890) in the Pacific Northwest and Mountain West that preceded the state of Idaho.
Referenced by (15)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
U.S. Army Department of the Columbia
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locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity
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Idaho Territory
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