Clay Township, St. Joseph County, Indiana
E357240
Clay Township, St. Joseph County, Indiana is a civil township in northern Indiana that includes the community of Notre Dame and parts of the South Bend metropolitan area.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Clay Township, St. Joseph County, Indiana canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3437413 — 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: Clay Township, St. Joseph County, Indiana Context triple: [Notre Dame, Indiana, locatedIn, Clay Township, St. Joseph County, Indiana]
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A.
Jackson Township, Allen County, Indiana
Jackson Township is a rural civil township located within Allen County in northeastern Indiana, United States.
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B.
Washington Township, Gibson County, Indiana
Washington Township in Gibson County, Indiana, is a local governmental subdivision that includes the town of Hazleton and surrounding rural areas in southwestern Indiana.
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C.
Springfield Township, Allen County, Indiana
Springfield Township, Allen County, Indiana is a rural civil township in northeastern Indiana that forms part of the Fort Wayne metropolitan area.
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D.
Washington Township, Allen County, Indiana
Washington Township is a civil township located within Allen County in northeastern Indiana, encompassing a mix of suburban and rural communities near the city of Fort Wayne.
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E.
Shawswick Township, Indiana
Shawswick Township, Indiana is a civil township in Lawrence County known for encompassing parts of the city of Bedford and surrounding rural communities in southern Indiana.
- 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: Clay Township, St. Joseph County, Indiana Target entity description: Clay Township, St. Joseph County, Indiana is a civil township in northern Indiana that includes the community of Notre Dame and parts of the South Bend metropolitan area.
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A.
Jackson Township, Allen County, Indiana
Jackson Township is a rural civil township located within Allen County in northeastern Indiana, United States.
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B.
Washington Township, Gibson County, Indiana
Washington Township in Gibson County, Indiana, is a local governmental subdivision that includes the town of Hazleton and surrounding rural areas in southwestern Indiana.
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C.
Springfield Township, Allen County, Indiana
Springfield Township, Allen County, Indiana is a rural civil township in northeastern Indiana that forms part of the Fort Wayne metropolitan area.
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D.
Washington Township, Allen County, Indiana
Washington Township is a civil township located within Allen County in northeastern Indiana, encompassing a mix of suburban and rural communities near the city of Fort Wayne.
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E.
Shawswick Township, Indiana
Shawswick Township, Indiana is a civil township in Lawrence County known for encompassing parts of the city of Bedford and surrounding rural communities in southern Indiana.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
civil township
ⓘ
township in the United States ⓘ |
| borderedBy | Michigan state line ⓘ |
| contains |
Holy Cross College, Indiana
ⓘ
linked to:
Holy Cross College
Notre Dame, Indiana ⓘ Saint Mary’s College, Indiana ⓘ
linked to:
Saint Mary’s College (Indiana)
University of Notre Dame campus ⓘ
linked to:
University of Notre Dame
|
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| county | St. Joseph County, Indiana ⓘ |
| FIPSCode | 18-13240 ⓘ |
| GNISFeatureID | 453190 ⓘ |
| governmentType | civil township government ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
proximity to South Bend urban core
ⓘ
suburban character ⓘ |
| hasJurisdictionOver | unincorporated community of Notre Dame, Indiana ⓘ |
| hasLandUse |
commercial areas
ⓘ
educational institutions ⓘ residential areas ⓘ |
| isSubdivisionOf | St. Joseph County, Indiana ⓘ |
| locatedIn | northern Indiana ⓘ |
| locatedInMetropolitanArea | South Bend–Mishawaka metropolitan area ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
city of South Bend, Indiana
ⓘ
linked to:
South Bend, Indiana
|
| namedAfter | Henry Clay ⓘ |
| observesDaylightSavingTime | yes ⓘ |
| partOf |
Michiana region
ⓘ
linked to:
Michiana
South Bend metropolitan area ⓘ
linked to:
South Bend–Mishawaka metropolitan area
|
| postalCodeType | ZIP code ⓘ |
| region | Midwestern United States ⓘ |
| state | Indiana ⓘ |
| timeZone | Eastern Time Zone ⓘ |
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: Clay Township, St. Joseph County, Indiana Description of subject: Clay Township, St. Joseph County, Indiana is a civil township in northern Indiana that includes the community of Notre Dame and parts of the South Bend metropolitan area.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.