Collegeville Township, Minnesota
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Collegeville Township, Minnesota is a rural township in Stearns County best known as the home of Saint John’s Abbey and University.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Collegeville Township, Minnesota canonical | 1 |
| Collegeville Township, Stearns County, Minnesota | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8671308 — 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: Collegeville Township, Minnesota Context triple: [St. John’s Abbey Church in Collegeville, locatedIn, Collegeville Township, Minnesota]
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A.
Forest Township, Minnesota
Forest Township, Minnesota is a rural civil township located in Rice County in the southern part of the U.S. state of Minnesota.
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B.
Northfield Township, Minnesota
Northfield Township, Minnesota is a rural township in Rice County that surrounds parts of the city of Northfield and is characterized by its agricultural landscape and small-community setting.
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C.
Clinton Township, Minnesota
Clinton Township, Minnesota is a small rural township located in Rock County in the southwestern part of the state.
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D.
Martin Township, Minnesota
Martin Township, Minnesota is a rural civil township located in Rock County in the southwestern part of the state.
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E.
Burnsville, Minnesota
Burnsville, Minnesota is a suburban city in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan area known for its residential communities, commercial centers, and proximity to major transportation routes.
- 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: Collegeville Township, Minnesota Target entity description: Collegeville Township, Minnesota is a rural township in Stearns County best known as the home of Saint John’s Abbey and University.
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A.
Forest Township, Minnesota
Forest Township, Minnesota is a rural civil township located in Rice County in the southern part of the U.S. state of Minnesota.
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B.
Northfield Township, Minnesota
Northfield Township, Minnesota is a rural township in Rice County that surrounds parts of the city of Northfield and is characterized by its agricultural landscape and small-community setting.
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C.
Clinton Township, Minnesota
Clinton Township, Minnesota is a small rural township located in Rock County in the southwestern part of the state.
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D.
Martin Township, Minnesota
Martin Township, Minnesota is a rural civil township located in Rock County in the southwestern part of the state.
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E.
Burnsville, Minnesota
Burnsville, Minnesota is a suburban city in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan area known for its residential communities, commercial centers, and proximity to major transportation routes.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | township in the United States ⓘ |
| areaCode | 320 ⓘ |
| contains |
Saint John’s Abbey
ⓘ
linked to:
Saint John's Abbey
Saint John’s Abbey and University ⓘ
linked to:
Saint John's Abbey
Saint John’s Arboretum and natural lands ⓘ Saint John’s University ⓘ
linked to:
Saint John's University (Minnesota)
unincorporated community of Collegeville ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| countrySubdivision | Midwestern United States ⓘ |
| county | Stearns County ⓘ |
| FIPSCode | 27-12300 ⓘ |
| GNISFeatureID | 0663590 ⓘ |
| governmentType | township government ⓘ |
| hasEducationalInstitution |
Saint John’s University
ⓘ
linked to:
Saint John's University (Minnesota)
|
| hasFeature | lakes and woodlands associated with Saint John’s campus ⓘ |
| hasHigherEducationCampus |
liberal arts college Saint John’s University
ⓘ
linked to:
Saint John's University (Minnesota)
|
| hasLandUse | rural ⓘ |
| hasReligiousInstitution |
Benedictine monastery Saint John’s Abbey
ⓘ
linked to:
Saint John's Abbey
|
| hasReligiousOrder |
Benedictine monks of Saint John’s Abbey
ⓘ
linked to:
Saint John's Abbey
|
| knownFor | being home to Saint John’s Abbey and University ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Minnesota
ⓘ
Stearns County, Minnesota ⓘ
linked to:
Stearns County
United States Midwest ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
College of Saint Benedict and Saint John’s University area
ⓘ
linked to:
College of Saint Benedict
|
| partOf |
St. Cloud, Minnesota metropolitan area
ⓘ
linked to:
Saint Cloud, Minnesota
Stearns County, Minnesota ⓘ
linked to:
Stearns County
|
| postalCodeType | ZIP code ⓘ |
| state | Minnesota ⓘ |
| timeZone |
Central Standard Time
ⓘ
linked to:
Central Time Zone
|
| 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: Collegeville Township, Minnesota Description of subject: Collegeville Township, Minnesota is a rural township in Stearns County best known as the home of Saint John’s Abbey and University.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Collegeville Township, Minnesota