Foley, Minnesota
E1019334
Foley, Minnesota is a small city in central Minnesota that serves as the county seat of Benton County.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Foley, Minnesota canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13075174 — 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: Foley, Minnesota Context triple: [Minnesota State Highway 23, passesThrough, Foley, Minnesota]
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A.
Fountain, Minnesota
Fountain, Minnesota is a small city in southeastern Minnesota known as the "Sinkhole Capital of the United States" due to its karst topography and numerous sinkholes.
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B.
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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C.
Loman, Minnesota
Loman, Minnesota is a small unincorporated community in Koochiching County in northern Minnesota near the Rainy River and the Canadian border.
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D.
Buhl, Minnesota
Buhl, Minnesota is a small city on the Iron Range in St. Louis County known historically for its iron mining roots and location in northeastern Minnesota.
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E.
Ogilvie, Minnesota
Ogilvie, Minnesota is a small rural city in Kanabec County known for its agricultural surroundings and location in east-central Minnesota.
- 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: Foley, Minnesota Target entity description: Foley, Minnesota is a small city in central Minnesota that serves as the county seat of Benton County.
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A.
Fountain, Minnesota
Fountain, Minnesota is a small city in southeastern Minnesota known as the "Sinkhole Capital of the United States" due to its karst topography and numerous sinkholes.
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B.
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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C.
Loman, Minnesota
Loman, Minnesota is a small unincorporated community in Koochiching County in northern Minnesota near the Rainy River and the Canadian border.
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D.
Buhl, Minnesota
Buhl, Minnesota is a small city on the Iron Range in St. Louis County known historically for its iron mining roots and location in northeastern Minnesota.
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E.
Ogilvie, Minnesota
Ogilvie, Minnesota is a small rural city in Kanabec County known for its agricultural surroundings and location in east-central Minnesota.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
city
ⓘ
county seat ⓘ |
| areaCode | 320 ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| countrySubdivision | Midwestern United States ⓘ |
| county | Benton County, Minnesota ⓘ |
| FIPSCode | 27-21608 ⓘ |
| GNISFeatureID | 0643830 ⓘ |
| governmentType | mayor–council government ⓘ |
| hasSettlementType | city ⓘ |
| hasTransportation |
Minnesota State Highway 23
ⓘ
Minnesota State Highway 25 ⓘ |
| isCountySeatOf | Benton County, Minnesota ⓘ |
| locatedIn | central Minnesota ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | UTC−06:00 ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZoneDST | UTC−05:00 ⓘ |
| namedFor | John Henry Foley ⓘ |
| partOf |
Benton County, Minnesota
ⓘ
Minnesota ⓘ United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| postalCode | 56329 ⓘ |
| region |
Central Minnesota
ⓘ
linked to:
central Minnesota
|
| 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: Foley, Minnesota Description of subject: Foley, Minnesota is a small city in central Minnesota that serves as the county seat of Benton County.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.