Halstad, Minnesota, United States
E1014674
Halstad, Minnesota, United States is a small rural city in Norman County known for its agricultural surroundings in the Red River Valley of the North.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Halstad, Minnesota, United States canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13018503 — 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: Halstad, Minnesota, United States Context triple: [Skitch Henderson, placeOfBirth, Halstad, Minnesota, United States]
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A.
Mendota, Minnesota, United States
Mendota, Minnesota, United States is a small historic town at the confluence of the Minnesota and Mississippi Rivers, known as one of the oldest European-American settlements in the state and an early center of the fur trade.
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B.
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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C.
Hutchinson, Minnesota, United States
Hutchinson, Minnesota, United States, is a small city in McLeod County known for its manufacturing base, historic Main Street, and role as the hometown of WNBA star Lindsay Whalen.
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D.
Hollandale, Minnesota
Hollandale, Minnesota is a small rural city located in southern Minnesota within Freeborn County.
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E.
Whalan, Minnesota
Whalan, Minnesota is a small city in southeastern Minnesota known for its location along the Root River and the Root River State Trail.
- 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: Halstad, Minnesota, United States Target entity description: Halstad, Minnesota, United States is a small rural city in Norman County known for its agricultural surroundings in the Red River Valley of the North.
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A.
Mendota, Minnesota, United States
Mendota, Minnesota, United States is a small historic town at the confluence of the Minnesota and Mississippi Rivers, known as one of the oldest European-American settlements in the state and an early center of the fur trade.
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B.
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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C.
Hutchinson, Minnesota, United States
Hutchinson, Minnesota, United States, is a small city in McLeod County known for its manufacturing base, historic Main Street, and role as the hometown of WNBA star Lindsay Whalen.
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D.
Hollandale, Minnesota
Hollandale, Minnesota is a small rural city located in southern Minnesota within Freeborn County.
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E.
Whalan, Minnesota
Whalan, Minnesota is a small city in southeastern Minnesota known for its location along the Root River and the Root River State Trail.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
city
ⓘ
human settlement ⓘ |
| areaCode | 218 ⓘ |
| borderedBy | Red River of the North NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| climate | continental climate ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| county | Norman County NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| drainageBasin | Hudson Bay drainage basin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| governmentType | city government ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
agricultural surroundings
ⓘ
rural ⓘ small city ⓘ |
| hasEconomicSector |
crop production
ⓘ
livestock production ⓘ |
| hasFeature | flat prairie landscape ⓘ |
| hasLandUse | agriculture ⓘ |
| hasTransportation | local county roads ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Red River Valley of the North NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | Red River Valley agricultural region NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Central Time Zone ⓘ |
| locatedNear | North Dakota border ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Red River of the North NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf |
Norman County, Minnesota
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Midwestern United States ⓘ
surface form:
United States Midwest
|
| postalCode | 56548 ⓘ |
| primaryEconomicActivity | farming ⓘ |
| region | northwestern Minnesota NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| state | Minnesota ⓘ |
| subdivisionType | city in Minnesota ⓘ |
| timeZoneDST |
Central Time Zone
ⓘ
surface form:
Central Daylight Time
|
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: Halstad, Minnesota, United States Description of subject: Halstad, Minnesota, United States is a small rural city in Norman County known for its agricultural surroundings in the Red River Valley of the North.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.