Lincoln
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Lincoln is a historic American city in Illinois best known as the namesake of President Abraham Lincoln and for its rich Civil War–era heritage.
All labels observed (1)
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| Lincoln canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3412868 — 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: Lincoln Context triple: [Land of Lincoln, hasWord, Lincoln]
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Lincoln
Lincoln is a suburban town in eastern Massachusetts known for its conservation land, historic sites, and commuter access to Boston.
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Lincoln
Lincoln is a luxury automobile marque of the Ford Motor Company known for its premium sedans and SUVs.
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Lincoln
Lincoln is a historic cathedral city in the East Midlands of England, renowned for its medieval architecture, including Lincoln Cathedral and Lincoln Castle.
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Lincoln
Lincoln is a common English surname most famously associated with U.S. President Abraham Lincoln and his family.
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Lincoln
Lincoln is a suburban town in Providence County, Rhode Island, known for its historic mill villages, residential neighborhoods, and recreational areas such as Lincoln Woods State Park.
- 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: Lincoln Target entity description: Lincoln is a historic American city in Illinois best known as the namesake of President Abraham Lincoln and for its rich Civil War–era heritage.
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Lincoln
Lincoln is a historic cathedral city in the East Midlands of England, renowned for its medieval architecture, including Lincoln Cathedral and Lincoln Castle.
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Lincoln
Lincoln is a common English surname most famously associated with U.S. President Abraham Lincoln and his family.
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Lincoln
Lincoln is a masculine given name of English origin most famously associated with U.S. President Abraham Lincoln.
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Lincoln
Lincoln is a suburban town in eastern Massachusetts known for its conservation land, historic sites, and commuter access to Boston.
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Lincoln
Lincoln is a 2012 historical drama film directed by Steven Spielberg that focuses on U.S. President Abraham Lincoln’s efforts to pass the Thirteenth Amendment abolishing slavery.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
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: Lincoln Description of subject: Lincoln is a historic American city in Illinois best known as the namesake of President Abraham Lincoln and for its rich Civil War–era heritage.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.