Valparaiso, Indiana
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Valparaiso, Indiana is a small city in northwestern Indiana known for hosting Valparaiso University and serving as a regional cultural and educational center.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Valparaiso, Indiana canonical | 46 |
| Valparaiso | 7 |
| Valparaiso metropolitan area | 1 |
| Valparaiso, Indiana area | 1 |
| Valparaiso, Indiana, United States | 1 |
| downtown Valparaiso | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1729842 — 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: Valparaiso, Indiana Context triple: [Porter County, Indiana, countySeat, Valparaiso, Indiana]
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Michigan City, Indiana
Michigan City, Indiana is a small city on the southern shore of Lake Michigan known as a gateway to the Indiana Dunes and a regional hub for lakefront recreation and tourism.
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Mishawaka, Indiana
Mishawaka, Indiana is a city in northern Indiana near South Bend, known for its manufacturing history and as the longtime base of vehicle maker AM General.
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Fort Wayne, Indiana
Fort Wayne, Indiana is a major city in northeastern Indiana known as a regional economic, cultural, and manufacturing hub.
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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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Portage, Indiana
Portage, Indiana is a city in northwestern Indiana near Lake Michigan, known as a key industrial and transportation hub within the Chicago metropolitan area.
- 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: Valparaiso, Indiana Target entity description: Valparaiso, Indiana is a small city in northwestern Indiana known for hosting Valparaiso University and serving as a regional cultural and educational center.
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Michigan City, Indiana
Michigan City, Indiana is a small city on the southern shore of Lake Michigan known as a gateway to the Indiana Dunes and a regional hub for lakefront recreation and tourism.
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Mishawaka, Indiana
Mishawaka, Indiana is a city in northern Indiana near South Bend, known for its manufacturing history and as the longtime base of vehicle maker AM General.
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C.
Fort Wayne, Indiana
Fort Wayne, Indiana is a major city in northeastern Indiana known as a regional economic, cultural, and manufacturing hub.
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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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E.
Portage, Indiana
Portage, Indiana is a city in northwestern Indiana near Lake Michigan, known as a key industrial and transportation hub within the Chicago metropolitan area.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Valparaiso, Indiana Description of subject: Valparaiso, Indiana is a small city in northwestern Indiana known for hosting Valparaiso University and serving as a regional cultural and educational center.
Referenced by (57)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Chicago–Naperville–Elgin, IL–IN–WI Metropolitan Statistical Area
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Homer Drew (early influence)
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College of Arts and Sciences
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College of Arts and Sciences
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College of Business
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College of Engineering
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Graduate School
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