Bloomington, Minnesota
E111963
Bloomington, Minnesota is a suburban city in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan area known for hosting major sports teams historically and for being home to the Mall of America.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bloomington, Minnesota canonical | 30 |
| Bloomington, Minnesota, United States | 3 |
| Bloomington, Minnesota area | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T919346 — 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: Bloomington, Minnesota Context triple: [Minnesota Muskies, homeCity, Bloomington, Minnesota]
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A.
Moorhead, Minnesota
Moorhead, Minnesota is a city in northwestern Minnesota located along the Red River of the North, forming part of the Fargo–Moorhead metropolitan area.
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B.
Minneapolis
Minneapolis is a major city in Minnesota known for its large and historically significant Norwegian American community, vibrant arts scene, and numerous lakes.
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C.
Duluth
Duluth is a major port city in northeastern Minnesota known for its shipping industry, scenic Lake Superior shoreline, and role as a regional transportation hub.
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D.
Eagan, Minnesota
Eagan, Minnesota is a suburban city in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan area known for its major corporate presence and proximity to key regional transportation hubs.
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E.
Northfield, Minnesota
Northfield, Minnesota is a small college town in southeastern Minnesota known for its historic downtown, liberal arts colleges, and scenic setting along the Cannon River.
- 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: Bloomington, Minnesota Target entity description: Bloomington, Minnesota is a suburban city in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan area known for hosting major sports teams historically and for being home to the Mall of America.
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A.
Moorhead, Minnesota
Moorhead, Minnesota is a city in northwestern Minnesota located along the Red River of the North, forming part of the Fargo–Moorhead metropolitan area.
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B.
Minneapolis
Minneapolis is a major city in Minnesota known for its large and historically significant Norwegian American community, vibrant arts scene, and numerous lakes.
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C.
Duluth
Duluth is a major port city in northeastern Minnesota known for its shipping industry, scenic Lake Superior shoreline, and role as a regional transportation hub.
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D.
Eagan, Minnesota
Eagan, Minnesota is a suburban city in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan area known for its major corporate presence and proximity to key regional transportation hubs.
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E.
Northfield, Minnesota
Northfield, Minnesota is a small college town in southeastern Minnesota known for its historic downtown, liberal arts colleges, and scenic setting along the Cannon River.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (60)
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: Bloomington, Minnesota Description of subject: Bloomington, Minnesota is a suburban city in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan area known for hosting major sports teams historically and for being home to the Mall of America.
Referenced by (34)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Interstate 35W (Minnesota)
this entity surface form:
Bloomington, Minnesota, United States
this entity surface form:
Bloomington, Minnesota, United States
this entity surface form:
Bloomington, Minnesota, United States
subject surface form:
1987 World Series
subject surface form:
Edina, Minnesota
this entity surface form:
Bloomington, Minnesota area