Austin Township, Minnesota
E275865
Austin Township, Minnesota is a rural civil township located in Mower County in the southern part of the state.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Austin Township, Mower County, Minnesota | 2 |
| Austin Township, Minnesota canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2516344 — 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: Austin Township, Minnesota Context triple: [Mower County, Minnesota, hasTownship, Austin Township, Minnesota]
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A.
Burnsville, Minnesota
Burnsville, Minnesota is a suburban city in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan area known for its residential communities, commercial centers, and proximity to major transportation routes.
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B.
Brownsville Township, Minnesota
Brownsville Township, Minnesota is a rural civil township located in southeastern Minnesota within Fillmore County.
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C.
Spring Valley, Minnesota
Spring Valley, Minnesota is a small city in southeastern Minnesota known for its rural community character and proximity to agricultural and natural areas.
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D.
Mounds View, Minnesota
Mounds View, Minnesota is a suburban city in Ramsey County within the Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan area.
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E.
Chatfield, Minnesota
Chatfield, Minnesota is a small city in southeastern Minnesota known for its historic downtown and annual Western Days celebration.
- 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: Austin Township, Minnesota Target entity description: Austin Township, Minnesota is a rural civil township located in Mower County in the southern part of the state.
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A.
Burnsville, Minnesota
Burnsville, Minnesota is a suburban city in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan area known for its residential communities, commercial centers, and proximity to major transportation routes.
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B.
Brownsville Township, Minnesota
Brownsville Township, Minnesota is a rural civil township located in southeastern Minnesota within Fillmore County.
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C.
Spring Valley, Minnesota
Spring Valley, Minnesota is a small city in southeastern Minnesota known for its rural community character and proximity to agricultural and natural areas.
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D.
Mounds View, Minnesota
Mounds View, Minnesota is a suburban city in Ramsey County within the Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan area.
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E.
Chatfield, Minnesota
Chatfield, Minnesota is a small city in southeastern Minnesota known for its historic downtown and annual Western Days celebration.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
civil township
ⓘ
human settlement ⓘ |
| areaCode | 507 ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| countrySubdivisionType | county ⓘ |
| governingBody | township board ⓘ |
| hasCountySeatNearby | Austin, Minnesota ⓘ |
| hasFIPSCode | 27-03018 ⓘ |
| hasGNISFeatureID | 0663620 ⓘ |
| hasGovernmentType | township government ⓘ |
| hasLandUse | agricultural ⓘ |
| isInNorthernHemisphere | true ⓘ |
| isInWesternHemisphere | true ⓘ |
| isRural | true ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Minnesota
ⓘ
Mower County, Minnesota ⓘ Southern Minnesota ⓘ
linked to:
southern Minnesota
|
| locatedInRegion | Midwestern United States ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Central Time Zone ⓘ |
| partOf | Mower County, Minnesota ⓘ |
| postalCodeType | ZIP code ⓘ |
| state | Minnesota ⓘ |
| subdivisionOf | Mower County, Minnesota ⓘ |
| subdivisionType | Township ⓘ |
| timeZoneDST |
Central Daylight Time
ⓘ
linked to:
Central Time Zone
|
| usesUnitSystem | U.S. customary units ⓘ |
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: Austin Township, Minnesota Description of subject: Austin Township, Minnesota is a rural civil township located in Mower County in the southern part of the state.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Austin Township, Minnesota
linked to: Austin Township, Minnesota