Madison
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Madison is the capital city of Wisconsin, known for its lakes, vibrant university community, and progressive culture.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Madison canonical | 34 |
| Madison, Wisconsin | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3302365 — 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: Madison Context triple: [Lake Wingra, city, Madison]
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A.
Madison
Madison is a common English surname and given name, historically associated with U.S. President James Madison and now widely used as a first name, especially for girls.
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B.
Madison
Madison is a suburban city in northern Alabama known for its proximity to Huntsville and its strong schools and residential communities.
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C.
Madison
Madison is a coastal town in south-central Connecticut known for its beaches, historic New England charm, and popular Hammonasset Beach State Park.
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D.
Racine
Racine is a city in southeastern Wisconsin located on the shore of Lake Michigan, known historically for its manufacturing industry and Danish kringle pastries.
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E.
Milwaukie
Milwaukie is a small city in northwestern Oregon, located just south of Portland along the Willamette River.
- 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: Madison Target entity description: Madison is the capital city of Wisconsin, known for its lakes, vibrant university community, and progressive culture.
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A.
Madison
Madison is a common English surname and given name, historically associated with U.S. President James Madison and now widely used as a first name, especially for girls.
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B.
Madison
Madison is a suburban city in northern Alabama known for its proximity to Huntsville and its strong schools and residential communities.
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C.
Madison
Madison is a coastal town in south-central Connecticut known for its beaches, historic New England charm, and popular Hammonasset Beach State Park.
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D.
Racine
Racine is a city in southeastern Wisconsin located on the shore of Lake Michigan, known historically for its manufacturing industry and Danish kringle pastries.
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E.
Milwaukie
Milwaukie is a small city in northwestern Oregon, located just south of Portland along the Willamette River.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Madison Description of subject: Madison is the capital city of Wisconsin, known for its lakes, vibrant university community, and progressive culture.
Referenced by (39)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
State Street
linked to: Madison
linked to: Madison
subject linked to:
College of Engineering
linked to: Madison
linked to: Madison
linked to: Madison
subject linked to:
Spring Harbor beach
subject linked to:
University of Wisconsin–Madison (men’s rowing program)