Benkelman, Nebraska, United States
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Benkelman, Nebraska, United States is a small rural town in southwestern Nebraska known as the birthplace of actor Ward Bond.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Benkelman, Nebraska, United States canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6712056 — 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: Benkelman, Nebraska, United States Context triple: [Ward Bond, placeOfBirth, Benkelman, Nebraska, United States]
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A.
Elba, Nebraska
Elba, Nebraska is a small rural village in Howard County, Nebraska, best known as the birthplace of Hall of Fame baseball pitcher Grover Cleveland Alexander.
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B.
McCook, Nebraska, United States
McCook, Nebraska, United States is a small city in southwestern Nebraska known as a regional hub for agriculture and rail transport.
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C.
Homer, Nebraska
Homer, Nebraska is a small rural village in northeastern Nebraska that serves as a local community hub within the Sioux City metropolitan area.
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D.
Ogallala, Nebraska
Ogallala, Nebraska is a small city in western Nebraska historically known as a frontier cattle town and now recognized as the namesake of the vast Ogallala Aquifer.
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E.
Bennington, Nebraska
Bennington, Nebraska is a small suburban city in eastern Nebraska known for its close-knit community and proximity to Omaha.
- 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: Benkelman, Nebraska, United States Target entity description: Benkelman, Nebraska, United States is a small rural town in southwestern Nebraska known as the birthplace of actor Ward Bond.
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A.
Elba, Nebraska
Elba, Nebraska is a small rural village in Howard County, Nebraska, best known as the birthplace of Hall of Fame baseball pitcher Grover Cleveland Alexander.
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B.
McCook, Nebraska, United States
McCook, Nebraska, United States is a small city in southwestern Nebraska known as a regional hub for agriculture and rail transport.
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C.
Homer, Nebraska
Homer, Nebraska is a small rural village in northeastern Nebraska that serves as a local community hub within the Sioux City metropolitan area.
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D.
Ogallala, Nebraska
Ogallala, Nebraska is a small city in western Nebraska historically known as a frontier cattle town and now recognized as the namesake of the vast Ogallala Aquifer.
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E.
Bennington, Nebraska
Bennington, Nebraska is a small suburban city in eastern Nebraska known for its close-knit community and proximity to Omaha.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | town ⓘ |
| areaCode | 308 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Benkelman, Nebraska ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| county | Dundy County ⓘ |
| elevation |
3028 ft
ⓘ
923 m ⓘ |
| FIPSCode | 31-03910 ⓘ |
| GNISFeatureID | 0827250 ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
rural community
ⓘ
small town ⓘ |
| hasClimate | semi-arid climate ⓘ |
| hasLatitude | 40.0497° N ⓘ |
| hasLongitude | 101.5335° W ⓘ |
| hasNotablePerson | Ward Bond ⓘ |
| hasPrimaryEconomicActivities |
agriculture
ⓘ
ranching ⓘ |
| incorporatedAsCity | 1887 ⓘ |
| isCountySeatOf | Dundy County ⓘ |
| knownFor | birthplace of actor Ward Bond ⓘ |
| localGovernmentType | mayor–council government ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Great Plains ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | southwestern Nebraska ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Central Time Zone ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Republican River ⓘ |
| namedAfter | J. G. Benkelman ⓘ |
| partOfMicropolitanOrMetropolitanArea | non-metropolitan area ⓘ |
| populationCensus2010 | 953 ⓘ |
| populationCensus2020 | 830 ⓘ |
| postalCode | 69021 ⓘ |
| servedByHighway |
Nebraska Highway 61
ⓘ
U.S. Route 34 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| state | Nebraska ⓘ |
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: Benkelman, Nebraska, United States Description of subject: Benkelman, Nebraska, United States is a small rural town in southwestern Nebraska known as the birthplace of actor Ward Bond.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.