Boise, Idaho, United States
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Boise is the capital and most populous city of Idaho, known as a regional economic and cultural center in the northwestern United States.
All labels observed (8)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Boise, Idaho | 51 |
| Boise | 11 |
| Boise, Idaho, United States canonical | 9 |
| Boise, Idaho, United States of America | 4 |
| Boise city center | 1 |
| Boise, Idaho region | 1 |
| City of Boise | 1 |
| downtown Boise | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T78120 — 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: Boise, Idaho, United States Context triple: [Perkins Coie, officeLocation, Boise, Idaho, United States]
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Spokane, Washington
Spokane, Washington is a major city in eastern Washington State known for its historic downtown, Riverfront Park, and role as a regional economic and cultural hub of the Inland Northwest.
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Portland, Oregon, United States
Portland, Oregon, United States is a major Pacific Northwest city known for its vibrant arts scene, progressive culture, and lush natural surroundings.
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Troutdale, Oregon
Troutdale, Oregon is a small city in the Portland metropolitan area known as the “Gateway to the Columbia River Gorge” for its proximity to scenic natural attractions and outdoor recreation.
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Bend, Oregon
Bend, Oregon is a rapidly growing city in central Oregon known for its outdoor recreation, craft beer scene, and proximity to the Cascade Mountains.
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Pasco, Washington
Pasco, Washington is a city in southeastern Washington State that forms part of the Tri-Cities region and serves as a key agricultural, transportation, and commercial hub along the Columbia 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: Boise, Idaho, United States Target entity description: Boise is the capital and most populous city of Idaho, known as a regional economic and cultural center in the northwestern United States.
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A.
Spokane, Washington
Spokane, Washington is a major city in eastern Washington State known for its historic downtown, Riverfront Park, and role as a regional economic and cultural hub of the Inland Northwest.
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B.
Portland, Oregon, United States
Portland, Oregon, United States is a major Pacific Northwest city known for its vibrant arts scene, progressive culture, and lush natural surroundings.
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C.
Troutdale, Oregon
Troutdale, Oregon is a small city in the Portland metropolitan area known as the “Gateway to the Columbia River Gorge” for its proximity to scenic natural attractions and outdoor recreation.
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D.
Bend, Oregon
Bend, Oregon is a rapidly growing city in central Oregon known for its outdoor recreation, craft beer scene, and proximity to the Cascade Mountains.
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E.
Pasco, Washington
Pasco, Washington is a city in southeastern Washington State that forms part of the Tri-Cities region and serves as a key agricultural, transportation, and commercial hub along the Columbia River.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Boise, Idaho, United States Description of subject: Boise is the capital and most populous city of Idaho, known as a regional economic and cultural center in the northwestern United States.
Referenced by (79)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Boise, Idaho, United States of America
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Interstate 84 (Oregon–Idaho)
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