Onalaska
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Onalaska is a city in western Wisconsin, United States, located along the Mississippi River just north of La Crosse.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Onalaska canonical | 1 |
| Town of Onalaska | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3626168 — 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: Onalaska Context triple: [La Crosse, borderedBy, Onalaska]
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A.
Olyphant
Olyphant is an alternative spelling of "Oliphant," a term historically used to refer to a type of medieval war horn or, in some fantasy contexts, a massive elephant-like creature.
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B.
Mendota
Mendota is a small historic city in Minnesota known for its early fur trade significance and location near the meeting point of the Minnesota and Mississippi Rivers.
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C.
Mendota
Mendota is a small agricultural city in California’s San Joaquin Valley known for its farming and rural character.
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D.
Alcona
Alcona is a residential community within the town of Innisfil, Ontario, known for its proximity to Lake Simcoe and its role as one of the area's primary population centres.
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E.
Wauchope
Wauchope is a rural town in New South Wales, Australia, known as a gateway to the hinterland near Port Macquarie and the surrounding Mid North Coast 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: Onalaska Target entity description: Onalaska is a city in western Wisconsin, United States, located along the Mississippi River just north of La Crosse.
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A.
Olyphant
Olyphant is an alternative spelling of "Oliphant," a term historically used to refer to a type of medieval war horn or, in some fantasy contexts, a massive elephant-like creature.
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B.
Mendota
Mendota is a small historic city in Minnesota known for its early fur trade significance and location near the meeting point of the Minnesota and Mississippi Rivers.
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C.
Mendota
Mendota is a small agricultural city in California’s San Joaquin Valley known for its farming and rural character.
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D.
Alcona
Alcona is a residential community within the town of Innisfil, Ontario, known for its proximity to Lake Simcoe and its role as one of the area's primary population centres.
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E.
Wauchope
Wauchope is a rural town in New South Wales, Australia, known as a gateway to the hinterland near Port Macquarie and the surrounding Mid North Coast region.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
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: Onalaska Description of subject: Onalaska is a city in western Wisconsin, United States, located along the Mississippi River just north of La Crosse.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Town of Onalaska