Merriam, Indiana
E899884
Merriam, Indiana is an unincorporated rural community located in Noble County in the northeastern part of the state.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Merriam, Indiana canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10496227 — 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: Merriam, Indiana Context triple: [Noble County, Indiana, hasSettlement, Merriam, Indiana]
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A.
St. John, Indiana
St. John, Indiana is a suburban town in Lake County known for its residential communities, good schools, and proximity to the Chicago metropolitan area.
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B.
Milton, Indiana
Milton, Indiana is a small rural town located in eastern Indiana within Wayne County.
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C.
Montpelier, Indiana
Montpelier, Indiana is a small city in Blackford County known historically as the birthplace of Francis Avent Gumm, the father of actress Judy Garland.
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D.
DeMotte, Indiana
DeMotte, Indiana is a small town in Jasper County known as a rural Midwestern community and the birthplace of prominent U.S. Congressman Charles A. Halleck.
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E.
Majenica, Indiana
Majenica, Indiana is an unincorporated rural community located in Huntington County in the U.S. state of Indiana.
- 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: Merriam, Indiana Target entity description: Merriam, Indiana is an unincorporated rural community located in Noble County in the northeastern part of the state.
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A.
St. John, Indiana
St. John, Indiana is a suburban town in Lake County known for its residential communities, good schools, and proximity to the Chicago metropolitan area.
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B.
Milton, Indiana
Milton, Indiana is a small rural town located in eastern Indiana within Wayne County.
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C.
Montpelier, Indiana
Montpelier, Indiana is a small city in Blackford County known historically as the birthplace of Francis Avent Gumm, the father of actress Judy Garland.
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D.
DeMotte, Indiana
DeMotte, Indiana is a small town in Jasper County known as a rural Midwestern community and the birthplace of prominent U.S. Congressman Charles A. Halleck.
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E.
Majenica, Indiana
Majenica, Indiana is an unincorporated rural community located in Huntington County in the U.S. state of Indiana.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
census-designated place
ⓘ
unincorporated community ⓘ |
| areaCode | 260 ⓘ |
| closed | 1907 ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| county | Noble County, Indiana NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| elevationUnit | feet ⓘ |
| GNISFeatureID | 438983 ⓘ |
| governingBody | Noble County government ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
local churches
ⓘ
local roads ⓘ rural residences ⓘ |
| hasPostOffice | Merriam post office ⓘ |
| hasSettlementType | rural community ⓘ |
| hasSubdivision | Jefferson Township, Noble County, Indiana ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Merriam, Indiana
ⓘ
Northeastern Indiana ⓘ United States Midwest ⓘ
linked to:
Midwestern United States
|
| locatedInTimeZone | Eastern Time Zone ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Merriam family ⓘ |
| opened | 1853 ⓘ |
| partOf |
Noble County, Indiana
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
State of Indiana ⓘ
linked to:
Indiana
United States of America ⓘ |
| postalCodeType | ZIP code ⓘ |
| state | Indiana ⓘ |
| timeZoneDST |
Eastern Daylight Time
ⓘ
linked to:
Eastern Time Zone
|
| timeZoneStandard |
Eastern Standard Time
ⓘ
linked to:
Eastern 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: Merriam, Indiana Description of subject: Merriam, Indiana is an unincorporated rural community located in Noble County in the northeastern part of the state.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Merriam, Indiana