Bigelow, Minnesota, United States
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Bigelow, Minnesota, United States is a small rural city in Nobles County in southwestern Minnesota.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bigelow Township, Nobles County, Minnesota | 1 |
| Bigelow, Minnesota, United States canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8513961 — 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: Bigelow, Minnesota, United States Context triple: [Nicholas Wolterstorff, placeOfBirth, Bigelow, Minnesota, United States]
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A.
Blaine, Minnesota, United States
Blaine is a suburban city in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan area of Minnesota, known for its rapid growth, residential communities, and the National Sports Center complex.
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B.
Belle Plaine, Minnesota, United States
Belle Plaine is a small city in Scott County, Minnesota, known for its rural character and location along the Minnesota River southwest of the Twin Cities.
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C.
Warroad, Minnesota, United States
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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D.
Cloquet, Minnesota, United States
Cloquet, Minnesota, United States, is a small city in Carlton County best known as the birthplace of acclaimed actress Jessica Lange and for its historic paper mill and Frank Lloyd Wright–designed gas station.
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E.
Winona, Minnesota, United States
Winona, Minnesota, United States, is a historic Mississippi River city known for its 19th-century architecture, river bluffs, and cultural institutions such as Winona State University and the Minnesota Marine Art Museum.
- 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: Bigelow, Minnesota, United States Target entity description: Bigelow, Minnesota, United States is a small rural city in Nobles County in southwestern Minnesota.
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A.
Blaine, Minnesota, United States
Blaine is a suburban city in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan area of Minnesota, known for its rapid growth, residential communities, and the National Sports Center complex.
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B.
Belle Plaine, Minnesota, United States
Belle Plaine is a small city in Scott County, Minnesota, known for its rural character and location along the Minnesota River southwest of the Twin Cities.
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C.
Warroad, Minnesota, United States
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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D.
Cloquet, Minnesota, United States
Cloquet, Minnesota, United States, is a small city in Carlton County best known as the birthplace of acclaimed actress Jessica Lange and for its historic paper mill and Frank Lloyd Wright–designed gas station.
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E.
Winona, Minnesota, United States
Winona, Minnesota, United States, is a historic Mississippi River city known for its 19th-century architecture, river bluffs, and cultural institutions such as Winona State University and the Minnesota Marine Art Museum.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
city
ⓘ
municipality ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| countrySubdivision |
U.S. state of Minnesota
ⓘ
linked to:
Minnesota
|
| county | Nobles County ⓘ |
| hasAbbreviation |
Bigelow, MN
ⓘ
linked to:
Bigelow, Minnesota
|
| hasMunicipalStatus | city ⓘ |
| hasName | Bigelow ⓘ |
| hasOfficialName | Bigelow, Minnesota ⓘ |
| hasRegionType | rural city ⓘ |
| hasSettlementType | city ⓘ |
| isInCountry |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| isInCounty | Nobles County ⓘ |
| isInState | Minnesota ⓘ |
| isRural | true ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Nobles County, Minnesota
ⓘ
United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| locatedInContinent | North America ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | southwestern Minnesota ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Central Time Zone ⓘ |
| partOf |
Midwestern United States
ⓘ
Minnesota ⓘ Nobles County, Minnesota ⓘ |
| state | Minnesota ⓘ |
| timeZoneDST |
Central Daylight Time
ⓘ
linked to:
Central Time Zone
|
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: Bigelow, Minnesota, United States Description of subject: Bigelow, Minnesota, United States is a small rural city in Nobles County in southwestern Minnesota.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Bigelow, Minnesota, United States