Waterloo, Indiana
E301897
Waterloo, Indiana is a small town in northeastern Indiana that functions as a regional rail stop, notably hosting Amtrak’s Capitol Limited route between Chicago and the East Coast.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Waterloo, Indiana canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2672493 — 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: Waterloo, Indiana Context triple: [Amtrak Capitol Limited, servesCity, Waterloo, Indiana]
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A.
Winfield, Indiana
Winfield, Indiana is a small suburban town in northwest Indiana known for its residential communities and proximity to the Chicago metropolitan area.
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B.
Lowell, Indiana
Lowell, Indiana is a small town in northwest Indiana known for its historic downtown, annual Labor Day Festival, and role as a residential community within the greater Chicago metropolitan area.
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C.
Mishawaka, Indiana
Mishawaka, Indiana is a city in northern Indiana near South Bend, known for its manufacturing history and as the longtime base of vehicle maker AM General.
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D.
Elkhart, Indiana
Elkhart, Indiana is a small city in northern Indiana known for its recreational vehicle manufacturing industry and location near the Michigan border.
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E.
Kouts, Indiana
Kouts, Indiana is a small rural town located in northwestern Indiana within the Chicago metropolitan region.
- 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: Waterloo, Indiana Target entity description: Waterloo, Indiana is a small town in northeastern Indiana that functions as a regional rail stop, notably hosting Amtrak’s Capitol Limited route between Chicago and the East Coast.
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A.
Winfield, Indiana
Winfield, Indiana is a small suburban town in northwest Indiana known for its residential communities and proximity to the Chicago metropolitan area.
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B.
Lowell, Indiana
Lowell, Indiana is a small town in northwest Indiana known for its historic downtown, annual Labor Day Festival, and role as a residential community within the greater Chicago metropolitan area.
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C.
Mishawaka, Indiana
Mishawaka, Indiana is a city in northern Indiana near South Bend, known for its manufacturing history and as the longtime base of vehicle maker AM General.
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D.
Elkhart, Indiana
Elkhart, Indiana is a small city in northern Indiana known for its recreational vehicle manufacturing industry and location near the Michigan border.
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E.
Kouts, Indiana
Kouts, Indiana is a small rural town located in northwestern Indiana within the Chicago metropolitan region.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
municipality
ⓘ
town ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| county | DeKalb County, Indiana NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| function | regional rail stop ⓘ |
| governingBody | Waterloo town government ⓘ |
| hasAreaCode | 260 ⓘ |
| hasClimate | humid continental climate ⓘ |
| hasOfficialLanguage | English ⓘ |
| hasPostalCode | 46793 ⓘ |
| hasRailService |
Amtrak
ⓘ
Capitol Limited (historical) ⓘ
surface form:
Capitol Limited
|
| hasSettlementType | town ⓘ |
| hasStation | Waterloo Amtrak station ⓘ |
| isOnRailRouteBetween |
Chicago
ⓘ
East Coast of the United States ⓘ |
| locatedIn | northeastern Indiana ⓘ |
| locatedInMetropolitanArea | Fort Wayne metropolitan area ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Eastern Time Zone ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Waterloo, Belgium ⓘ |
| nearbyCity |
Auburn, Indiana
ⓘ
Fort Wayne, Indiana ⓘ |
| partOf | Midwestern United States ⓘ |
| region | DeKalb County, Indiana NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| roadAccessVia |
Indiana State Road 427
ⓘ
U.S. Route 6 ⓘ |
| servesAs | stop on Amtrak’s Capitol Limited route ⓘ |
| state | Indiana ⓘ |
| transportationMode | passenger rail ⓘ |
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: Waterloo, Indiana Description of subject: Waterloo, Indiana is a small town in northeastern Indiana that functions as a regional rail stop, notably hosting Amtrak’s Capitol Limited route between Chicago and the East Coast.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.