Warroad, Minnesota, United States
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Warroad, Minnesota, United States is a small northern town near the Canadian border known for its strong ice hockey tradition and producing elite players.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Warroad, Minnesota | 28 |
| Warroad, Minnesota, United States canonical | 2 |
| Warroad's nickname "Hockeytown USA" | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T420068 — 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)
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Target entity: Warroad, Minnesota, United States Context triple: [T.J. Oshie, grewUpIn, Warroad, Minnesota, United States]
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A.
Rochester, Minnesota, United States
Rochester, Minnesota, United States, is a city in southeastern Minnesota best known as the home of the world-renowned Mayo Clinic medical center.
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B.
Hibbing, Minnesota, United States
Hibbing, Minnesota, United States is a small iron-mining city on the Mesabi Range known as the hometown of several notable figures, including basketball Hall of Famer Kevin McHale and musician Bob Dylan.
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C.
Fargo, North Dakota
Fargo, North Dakota is the largest city in the state and a regional economic, cultural, and educational hub located along the Red River in the eastern part of North Dakota.
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D.
Grand Forks, North Dakota
Grand Forks, North Dakota is a city in the northeastern part of the state known for its Air Force base, regional university, and role as a strategic military and economic center in the Upper Midwest.
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E.
Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, United States
Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, United States is a remote Arctic oil-producing area on Alaska’s North Slope, known for its vast petroleum fields and extreme polar environment.
- 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: Warroad, Minnesota, United States Target entity description: Warroad, Minnesota, United States is a small northern town near the Canadian border known for its strong ice hockey tradition and producing elite players.
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A.
Rochester, Minnesota, United States
Rochester, Minnesota, United States, is a city in southeastern Minnesota best known as the home of the world-renowned Mayo Clinic medical center.
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B.
Hibbing, Minnesota, United States
Hibbing, Minnesota, United States is a small iron-mining city on the Mesabi Range known as the hometown of several notable figures, including basketball Hall of Famer Kevin McHale and musician Bob Dylan.
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C.
Fargo, North Dakota
Fargo, North Dakota is the largest city in the state and a regional economic, cultural, and educational hub located along the Red River in the eastern part of North Dakota.
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D.
Grand Forks, North Dakota
Grand Forks, North Dakota is a city in the northeastern part of the state known for its Air Force base, regional university, and role as a strategic military and economic center in the Upper Midwest.
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E.
Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, United States
Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, United States is a remote Arctic oil-producing area on Alaska’s North Slope, known for its vast petroleum fields and extreme polar environment.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
city
ⓘ
human settlement ⓘ |
| areaCode | 218 ⓘ |
| borderFacility | Warroad–Sprague Border Crossing ⓘ |
| climate | humid continental climate ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| countrySubdivision | Midwestern United States ⓘ |
| county | Roseau County ⓘ |
| distanceToBorder | a few miles from the Canadian border ⓘ |
| elevationAboveSeaLevel | approximately 1,070 feet ⓘ |
| governmentType | city government ⓘ |
| hasBorderCrossingWith | Canada ⓘ |
| hasCulturalIdentity | hockey-centric community ⓘ |
| hasEconomicActivity | recreational fishing on Lake of the Woods ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
ice arenas
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outdoor ice rinks ⓘ |
| hasHighSchool | Warroad High School ⓘ |
| hasIndustry |
fishing
ⓘ
manufacturing ⓘ tourism ⓘ |
| hasRecreationalActivity |
boating on Lake of the Woods
ⓘ
ice fishing ⓘ snowmobiling ⓘ |
| hasReputation |
producing NHL ice hockey players
ⓘ
producing Olympic ice hockey players ⓘ |
| hasSportsTeam |
Warroad Warriors boys ice hockey team
ⓘ
linked to:
Warroad Warriors boys' ice hockey
Warroad Warriors girls ice hockey team ⓘ
linked to:
Warroad Warriors boys' ice hockey
|
| knownFor |
high school ice hockey program
ⓘ
ice hockey tradition ⓘ producing elite ice hockey players ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Northern Minnesota
ⓘ
United States Midwest ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Canada–United States border ⓘ |
| locatedOn |
Lake of the Woods
ⓘ
Warroad River ⓘ |
| nearbyWaterBody | Lake of the Woods ⓘ |
| nickname |
Hockeytown USA
ⓘ
linked to:
U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame
|
| partOf |
Roseau County, Minnesota
ⓘ
linked to:
Roseau County
|
| populationTrend | small town ⓘ |
| postalCode | 56763 ⓘ |
| region |
Northwest Minnesota
ⓘ
linked to:
Northern Minnesota
|
| sport | ice hockey ⓘ |
| state | Minnesota ⓘ |
| timeZone | Central Time Zone ⓘ |
| timeZoneDST |
Central Daylight Time
ⓘ
linked to:
Central Time Zone
|
| transport |
Minnesota State Highway 11
ⓘ
Minnesota State Highway 313 ⓘ |
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: Warroad, Minnesota, United States Description of subject: Warroad, Minnesota, United States is a small northern town near the Canadian border known for its strong ice hockey tradition and producing elite players.
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