Willmar, Minnesota
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Willmar, Minnesota is a regional city in west-central Minnesota known as a commercial and transportation hub amid the state’s lake country.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Willmar, Minnesota canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5356680 — 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: Willmar, Minnesota Context triple: [U.S. Route 71, passesThrough, Willmar, Minnesota]
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A.
Morris, Minnesota
Morris, Minnesota is a small city in west-central Minnesota known for hosting the University of Minnesota Morris and serving as a regional educational and agricultural hub.
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B.
Owatonna, Minnesota
Owatonna, Minnesota is a small city in southern Minnesota best known as the hometown of electronic music project Owl City.
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C.
Mankato, Minnesota
Mankato, Minnesota is a city in south-central Minnesota known historically as the site of the largest mass execution in U.S. history following the Dakota War of 1862.
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D.
Hermantown, Minnesota
Hermantown, Minnesota is a suburban city near Duluth known for its mix of residential neighborhoods, commercial development, and proximity to major transportation routes in northeastern Minnesota.
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E.
Waltham, Minnesota
Waltham, Minnesota is a small rural city located in Mower County in the southeastern part of the state.
- 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: Willmar, Minnesota Target entity description: Willmar, Minnesota is a regional city in west-central Minnesota known as a commercial and transportation hub amid the state’s lake country.
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A.
Morris, Minnesota
Morris, Minnesota is a small city in west-central Minnesota known for hosting the University of Minnesota Morris and serving as a regional educational and agricultural hub.
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B.
Owatonna, Minnesota
Owatonna, Minnesota is a small city in southern Minnesota best known as the hometown of electronic music project Owl City.
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C.
Mankato, Minnesota
Mankato, Minnesota is a city in south-central Minnesota known historically as the site of the largest mass execution in U.S. history following the Dakota War of 1862.
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D.
Hermantown, Minnesota
Hermantown, Minnesota is a suburban city near Duluth known for its mix of residential neighborhoods, commercial development, and proximity to major transportation routes in northeastern Minnesota.
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E.
Waltham, Minnesota
Waltham, Minnesota is a small rural city located in Mower County in the southeastern part of the state.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
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: Willmar, Minnesota Description of subject: Willmar, Minnesota is a regional city in west-central Minnesota known as a commercial and transportation hub amid the state’s lake country.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Marshall, Minnesota, United States
subject linked to:
Jennie-O turkey products
subject linked to:
southwestern Minnesota