Koochiching County, Minnesota
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Koochiching County, Minnesota is a sparsely populated northern Minnesota county known for its extensive forests, lakes, and the city of International Falls on the Canadian border.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Koochiching County, Minnesota canonical | 16 |
| Koochiching County | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3486486 — 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: Koochiching County, Minnesota Context triple: [St. Louis County, Minnesota, borders, Koochiching County, Minnesota]
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A.
Pipestone County, Minnesota
Pipestone County, Minnesota is a rural county in southwestern Minnesota known for its historic pipestone quarries and proximity to the South Dakota border.
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B.
Goodhue County, Minnesota
Goodhue County, Minnesota is a county in southeastern Minnesota along the Mississippi River, known for its historic river towns, agricultural landscape, and the city of Red Wing as its county seat.
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C.
Dodge County, Minnesota
Dodge County, Minnesota is a predominantly rural county in southeastern Minnesota known for its agricultural landscape and small communities such as Mantorville and Kasson.
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D.
Winona County, Minnesota
Winona County, Minnesota is a county in southeastern Minnesota along the Mississippi River, known for its blufflands, river valleys, and the city of Winona as its county seat.
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E.
Freeborn County, Minnesota
Freeborn County, Minnesota is a predominantly rural county in southern Minnesota known for its agricultural economy and county seat of Albert Lea.
- 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: Koochiching County, Minnesota Target entity description: Koochiching County, Minnesota is a sparsely populated northern Minnesota county known for its extensive forests, lakes, and the city of International Falls on the Canadian border.
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A.
Pipestone County, Minnesota
Pipestone County, Minnesota is a rural county in southwestern Minnesota known for its historic pipestone quarries and proximity to the South Dakota border.
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B.
Goodhue County, Minnesota
Goodhue County, Minnesota is a county in southeastern Minnesota along the Mississippi River, known for its historic river towns, agricultural landscape, and the city of Red Wing as its county seat.
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C.
Dodge County, Minnesota
Dodge County, Minnesota is a predominantly rural county in southeastern Minnesota known for its agricultural landscape and small communities such as Mantorville and Kasson.
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D.
Winona County, Minnesota
Winona County, Minnesota is a county in southeastern Minnesota along the Mississippi River, known for its blufflands, river valleys, and the city of Winona as its county seat.
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E.
Freeborn County, Minnesota
Freeborn County, Minnesota is a predominantly rural county in southern Minnesota known for its agricultural economy and county seat of Albert Lea.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
county in the United States
ⓘ
county of Minnesota ⓘ |
| adjacentTo |
Beltrami County, Minnesota
ⓘ
Itasca County, Minnesota ⓘ Lake of the Woods County, Minnesota ⓘ
linked to:
Lake of the Woods County
Rainy River District, Ontario ⓘ
linked to:
Rainy River District
St. Louis County, Minnesota ⓘ |
| borderRiver |
Big Fork River
ⓘ
Little Fork River ⓘ Rainy River ⓘ |
| borders |
Canada
ⓘ
Ontario, Canada ⓘ
linked to:
Ontario
|
| contains |
Big Falls, Minnesota
ⓘ
International Falls, Minnesota ⓘ
linked to:
International Falls
Kabetogama State Forest (part) ⓘ Littlefork, Minnesota ⓘ Northome, Minnesota ⓘ Pine Island State Forest (part) ⓘ
linked to:
Beltrami Island State Forest
Rainy Lake ⓘ Voyageurs National Park (part) ⓘ
linked to:
Voyageurs National Park
|
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| countySeat |
International Falls, Minnesota
ⓘ
linked to:
International Falls
|
| economicActivity |
forestry
ⓘ
paper and wood products ⓘ tourism ⓘ |
| FIPSCode | 27XXX ⓘ |
| GNISID | XXXXXXX ⓘ |
| governingBody | Koochiching County Board of Commissioners ⓘ |
| hasBorderCrossing | International Falls–Fort Frances border crossing ⓘ |
| hasClimate | humid continental climate ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
boreal forest landscape
ⓘ
numerous lakes and wetlands ⓘ |
| knownFor |
border city of International Falls
ⓘ
extensive forests ⓘ numerous lakes ⓘ sparse population ⓘ |
| largestCity |
International Falls, Minnesota
ⓘ
linked to:
International Falls
|
| locatedIn | northern Minnesota ⓘ |
| namedFor |
Rainy Lake (Ojibwe name Gojijiing / Koochiching)
ⓘ
linked to:
Rainy Lake
|
| partOf | Minnesota’s Arrowhead and Border Lakes region ⓘ |
| populationDensity | low ⓘ |
| recreationalActivity |
boating
ⓘ
fishing ⓘ hunting ⓘ snowmobiling ⓘ |
| state | Minnesota ⓘ |
| timeZone | Central 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: Koochiching County, Minnesota Description of subject: Koochiching County, Minnesota is a sparsely populated northern Minnesota county known for its extensive forests, lakes, and the city of International Falls on the Canadian border.
Referenced by (23)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Koochiching County, Minnesota
linked to: Koochiching County, Minnesota
subject linked to:
northeastern Minnesota
linked to: Koochiching County, Minnesota
linked to: Koochiching County, Minnesota
linked to: Koochiching County, Minnesota
linked to: Koochiching County, Minnesota
linked to: Koochiching County, Minnesota