Nebraska (Omaha word for "flat water")
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Nebraska (from an Omaha word meaning "flat water") is a U.S. state on the Great Plains known for its prairies, agriculture, and central role in westward expansion.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Nebraska (Omaha word for "flat water") canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13414701 — 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: Nebraska (Omaha word for "flat water") Context triple: [Nebraska Territory, namedAfter, Nebraska (Omaha word for "flat water")]
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A.
Nehawka, Nebraska
Nehawka, Nebraska is a small rural village located in Cass County in southeastern Nebraska, known for its agricultural surroundings and close-knit community.
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B.
Plattsmouth, Nebraska
Plattsmouth, Nebraska is a small historic city in eastern Nebraska located along the Missouri River, serving as the county seat of Cass County within the Omaha metropolitan area.
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C.
Omaha, Nebraska
Omaha, Nebraska is the largest city in the state of Nebraska, known as a major Midwestern economic and cultural hub situated along the Missouri River.
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D.
Nebraska Omaha
Nebraska Omaha is the commonly used short name for the University of Nebraska Omaha, a public research university located in Omaha, Nebraska.
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E.
Sweet Water, Nebraska
Sweet Water, Nebraska is a fictional small prairie town in Willa Cather’s novel "A Lost Lady," emblematic of the changing American West and the decline of old pioneer ideals.
- 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: Nebraska (Omaha word for "flat water") Target entity description: Nebraska (from an Omaha word meaning "flat water") is a U.S. state on the Great Plains known for its prairies, agriculture, and central role in westward expansion.
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A.
Nehawka, Nebraska
Nehawka, Nebraska is a small rural village located in Cass County in southeastern Nebraska, known for its agricultural surroundings and close-knit community.
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B.
Plattsmouth, Nebraska
Plattsmouth, Nebraska is a small historic city in eastern Nebraska located along the Missouri River, serving as the county seat of Cass County within the Omaha metropolitan area.
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C.
Omaha, Nebraska
Omaha, Nebraska is the largest city in the state of Nebraska, known as a major Midwestern economic and cultural hub situated along the Missouri River.
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D.
Nebraska Omaha
Nebraska Omaha is the commonly used short name for the University of Nebraska Omaha, a public research university located in Omaha, Nebraska.
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E.
Sweet Water, Nebraska
Sweet Water, Nebraska is a fictional small prairie town in Willa Cather’s novel "A Lost Lady," emblematic of the changing American West and the decline of old pioneer ideals.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Nebraska (Omaha word for "flat water") Description of subject: Nebraska (from an Omaha word meaning "flat water") is a U.S. state on the Great Plains known for its prairies, agriculture, and central role in westward expansion.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.