Janesville, Wisconsin, United States
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Janesville, Wisconsin, United States is a city in southern Wisconsin known as the hometown of former U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Janesville, Wisconsin | 20 |
| Janesville, Wisconsin, United States canonical | 3 |
| City of Janesville, Wisconsin | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4116518 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Janesville, Wisconsin, United States Context triple: [Paul Ryan, placeOfBirth, Janesville, Wisconsin, United States]
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Jefferson, Wisconsin, United States
Jefferson, Wisconsin, United States is a small city in southeastern Wisconsin known for its historic character and proximity to the former St. Coletta School for Exceptional Children, where Rosemary Kennedy resided.
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Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Madison, Wisconsin, United States is the capital city of Wisconsin, known for its major research university, vibrant cultural scene, and numerous lakes.
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Marinette, Wisconsin
Marinette, Wisconsin is a small industrial city in northeastern Wisconsin on the shore of Green Bay, known historically for shipbuilding and its location opposite Menominee, Michigan.
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Oshkosh, Wisconsin
Oshkosh, Wisconsin is a city on the western shore of Lake Winnebago known for its historic manufacturing industry, the EAA AirVenture aviation festival, and its namesake OshKosh B’gosh clothing brand.
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Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, United States
Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, United States is a small Midwestern city best known as the birthplace of renowned American modernist painter Georgia O’Keeffe.
- 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: Janesville, Wisconsin, United States Target entity description: Janesville, Wisconsin, United States is a city in southern Wisconsin known as the hometown of former U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan.
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A.
Jefferson, Wisconsin, United States
Jefferson, Wisconsin, United States is a small city in southeastern Wisconsin known for its historic character and proximity to the former St. Coletta School for Exceptional Children, where Rosemary Kennedy resided.
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B.
Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Madison, Wisconsin, United States is the capital city of Wisconsin, known for its major research university, vibrant cultural scene, and numerous lakes.
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C.
Marinette, Wisconsin
Marinette, Wisconsin is a small industrial city in northeastern Wisconsin on the shore of Green Bay, known historically for shipbuilding and its location opposite Menominee, Michigan.
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Oshkosh, Wisconsin
Oshkosh, Wisconsin is a city on the western shore of Lake Winnebago known for its historic manufacturing industry, the EAA AirVenture aviation festival, and its namesake OshKosh B’gosh clothing brand.
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E.
Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, United States
Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, United States is a small Midwestern city best known as the birthplace of renowned American modernist painter Georgia O’Keeffe.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Janesville, Wisconsin, United States Description of subject: Janesville, Wisconsin, United States is a city in southern Wisconsin known as the hometown of former U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan.
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