St. James, Minnesota
E1014552
St. James, Minnesota is a small city in south-central Minnesota that serves as a local agricultural and commercial hub for the surrounding rural area.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| St. James, Minnesota canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12987432 — 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: St. James, Minnesota Context triple: [Minnesota State Highway 60, passesThrough, St. James, Minnesota]
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A.
St. Francis, Minnesota
St. Francis, Minnesota is a small city in Anoka County known for its suburban-rural character and location along the Rum River in the northern Twin Cities metropolitan area.
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B.
Brownsville, Minnesota
Brownsville, Minnesota is a small city along the Mississippi River in southeastern Minnesota known for its scenic river views and outdoor recreation.
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C.
Saint Anthony, Minnesota
Saint Anthony, Minnesota is a small suburban city in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan area known for its residential neighborhoods and proximity to urban amenities.
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D.
Stillwater, Minnesota
Stillwater, Minnesota is a historic city on the St. Croix River known as one of the oldest towns in the state and a popular tourist destination for its preserved downtown and scenic riverfront.
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E.
Chisholm, Minnesota
Chisholm, Minnesota is a small city on the Mesabi Iron Range known for its mining history and the Minnesota Discovery Center.
- 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: St. James, Minnesota Target entity description: St. James, Minnesota is a small city in south-central Minnesota that serves as a local agricultural and commercial hub for the surrounding rural area.
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A.
St. Francis, Minnesota
St. Francis, Minnesota is a small city in Anoka County known for its suburban-rural character and location along the Rum River in the northern Twin Cities metropolitan area.
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B.
Brownsville, Minnesota
Brownsville, Minnesota is a small city along the Mississippi River in southeastern Minnesota known for its scenic river views and outdoor recreation.
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C.
Saint Anthony, Minnesota
Saint Anthony, Minnesota is a small suburban city in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan area known for its residential neighborhoods and proximity to urban amenities.
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D.
Stillwater, Minnesota
Stillwater, Minnesota is a historic city on the St. Croix River known as one of the oldest towns in the state and a popular tourist destination for its preserved downtown and scenic riverfront.
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E.
Chisholm, Minnesota
Chisholm, Minnesota is a small city on the Mesabi Iron Range known for its mining history and the Minnesota Discovery Center.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
city
ⓘ
municipality ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| county | Watonwan County ⓘ |
| hasAreaCode | 507 ⓘ |
| hasEconomicActivity |
agriculture
ⓘ
local services ⓘ retail trade ⓘ |
| hasGovernmentType | city government ⓘ |
| hasJurisdiction | City of St. James government ⓘ |
| hasName | St. James ⓘ |
| hasOfficialName | City of St. James ⓘ |
| hasPostalCode | 56081 ⓘ |
| hasSettlementType | city ⓘ |
| hasTransportRole | local service center for surrounding farms ⓘ |
| isInRegion | southern Minnesota ⓘ |
| isLocalCenterFor |
agricultural trade
ⓘ
commercial services ⓘ |
| isNamedAfter | Saint James ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Midwestern United States
ⓘ
United States Midwest ⓘ
linked to:
Midwestern United States
south-central Minnesota ⓘ |
| partOf | Watonwan County, Minnesota ⓘ |
| role |
agricultural hub
ⓘ
commercial hub ⓘ |
| serves | surrounding rural area ⓘ |
| state | Minnesota ⓘ |
| timeZone | 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: St. James, Minnesota Description of subject: St. James, Minnesota is a small city in south-central Minnesota that serves as a local agricultural and commercial hub for the surrounding rural area.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.