Soudan, Minnesota
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Soudan, Minnesota is a small unincorporated community in northern Minnesota known for its historic underground iron mine and its use as a deep-underground site for physics experiments.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Soudan, Minnesota canonical | 2 |
| Finland, Minnesota | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3644273 — 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: Soudan, Minnesota Context triple: [MINOS experiment, hasFarDetectorLocation, Soudan, Minnesota]
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Le Roy, Minnesota
Le Roy, Minnesota is a small rural city in southeastern Minnesota near the Iowa border, known for its agricultural surroundings and proximity to Lake Louise State Park.
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B.
Fountain, Minnesota
Fountain, Minnesota is a small city in southeastern Minnesota known as the "Sinkhole Capital of the United States" due to its karst topography and numerous sinkholes.
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C.
Bismarck, North Dakota
Bismarck, North Dakota is the state capital and a regional economic and cultural center located in central North Dakota.
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D.
Ostrander, Minnesota
Ostrander, Minnesota is a small rural city located in southeastern Minnesota within Fillmore County.
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E.
southern Minnesota
Southern Minnesota is a largely agricultural and rural region of the state characterized by fertile plains, small towns, and the Minnesota River valley.
- 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: Soudan, Minnesota Target entity description: Soudan, Minnesota is a small unincorporated community in northern Minnesota known for its historic underground iron mine and its use as a deep-underground site for physics experiments.
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A.
Le Roy, Minnesota
Le Roy, Minnesota is a small rural city in southeastern Minnesota near the Iowa border, known for its agricultural surroundings and proximity to Lake Louise State Park.
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B.
Fountain, Minnesota
Fountain, Minnesota is a small city in southeastern Minnesota known as the "Sinkhole Capital of the United States" due to its karst topography and numerous sinkholes.
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C.
Bismarck, North Dakota
Bismarck, North Dakota is the state capital and a regional economic and cultural center located in central North Dakota.
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D.
Ostrander, Minnesota
Ostrander, Minnesota is a small rural city located in southeastern Minnesota within Fillmore County.
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E.
southern Minnesota
Southern Minnesota is a largely agricultural and rural region of the state characterized by fertile plains, small towns, and the Minnesota River valley.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
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: Soudan, Minnesota Description of subject: Soudan, Minnesota is a small unincorporated community in northern Minnesota known for its historic underground iron mine and its use as a deep-underground site for physics experiments.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Finland, Minnesota