Montana
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Montana is a large, sparsely populated U.S. state in the northern Rocky Mountains known for its expansive wilderness, national parks like Glacier, and wide-open "Big Sky" landscapes.
All labels observed (16)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T54670 — 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: Montana Context triple: [Pacific Northwest, hasStateOrProvince, Montana]
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A.
South Dakota
South Dakota is a largely rural U.S. state known for the Black Hills, Mount Rushmore, and its Native American heritage.
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B.
North Dakota
North Dakota is a sparsely populated U.S. state known for its Great Plains landscapes, agricultural economy, and significant oil production from the Bakken formation.
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C.
Idaho
Idaho is a mountainous, landlocked state in the northwestern United States known for its vast wilderness areas, outdoor recreation, and significant agricultural production, especially potatoes.
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D.
Nebraska
Nebraska is a landlocked U.S. state on the Great Plains known for its agriculture, prairies, and role as a historic crossroads for westward expansion.
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E.
Nevada
Nevada is a western U.S. state known for its vast deserts, legalized gambling, and the entertainment hub of Las Vegas.
- 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: Montana Target entity description: Montana is a large, sparsely populated U.S. state in the northern Rocky Mountains known for its expansive wilderness, national parks like Glacier, and wide-open "Big Sky" landscapes.
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A.
South Dakota
South Dakota is a largely rural U.S. state known for the Black Hills, Mount Rushmore, and its Native American heritage.
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B.
North Dakota
North Dakota is a sparsely populated U.S. state known for its Great Plains landscapes, agricultural economy, and significant oil production from the Bakken formation.
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C.
Idaho
Idaho is a mountainous, landlocked state in the northwestern United States known for its vast wilderness areas, outdoor recreation, and significant agricultural production, especially potatoes.
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D.
Nebraska
Nebraska is a landlocked U.S. state on the Great Plains known for its agriculture, prairies, and role as a historic crossroads for westward expansion.
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E.
Nevada
Nevada is a western U.S. state known for its vast deserts, legalized gambling, and the entertainment hub of Las Vegas.
- 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: Montana Description of subject: Montana is a large, sparsely populated U.S. state in the northern Rocky Mountains known for its expansive wilderness, national parks like Glacier, and wide-open "Big Sky" landscapes.
Referenced by (1,263)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Montana
linked to: Montana
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The Power of the Dog
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I-15
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I-15
linked to: Montana
linked to: Montana
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BC