Iowa–Minnesota border
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The Iowa–Minnesota border is the state line separating Iowa and Minnesota in the Midwestern United States, largely following straight survey lines with some sections defined by rivers.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Iowa–Minnesota border canonical | 6 |
| Minnesota–Iowa border | 2 |
| Iowa state line near New Albin, Iowa | 1 |
| Minnesota state line | 1 |
| Minnesota–Iowa border area | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3869283 — 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: Iowa–Minnesota border Context triple: [Iowa–South Dakota border, hasNeighboringBorderSegment, Iowa–Minnesota border]
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A.
Iowa–South Dakota border
The Iowa–South Dakota border is the state line in the north-central United States that largely follows the course of the Big Sioux River, separating Iowa from South Dakota.
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B.
Minnesota–South Dakota border
The Minnesota–South Dakota border is the state line in the north-central United States separating Minnesota and South Dakota, much of which follows natural features such as rivers and survey lines across the prairie.
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C.
Nebraska–Iowa border
The Nebraska–Iowa border is the state line in the central United States that largely follows the course of the Missouri River, separating Nebraska to the west from Iowa to the east.
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D.
Nebraska–Missouri border
The Nebraska–Missouri border is the state line in the central United States that largely follows the course of the Missouri River, separating Nebraska to the west from Missouri to the east.
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E.
Nebraska–South Dakota border
The Nebraska–South Dakota border is a U.S. state boundary running largely along the Missouri River, separating Nebraska to the south from South Dakota to the north.
- 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: Iowa–Minnesota border Target entity description: The Iowa–Minnesota border is the state line separating Iowa and Minnesota in the Midwestern United States, largely following straight survey lines with some sections defined by rivers.
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A.
Iowa–South Dakota border
The Iowa–South Dakota border is the state line in the north-central United States that largely follows the course of the Big Sioux River, separating Iowa from South Dakota.
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B.
Minnesota–South Dakota border
The Minnesota–South Dakota border is the state line in the north-central United States separating Minnesota and South Dakota, much of which follows natural features such as rivers and survey lines across the prairie.
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C.
Nebraska–Iowa border
The Nebraska–Iowa border is the state line in the central United States that largely follows the course of the Missouri River, separating Nebraska to the west from Iowa to the east.
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D.
Nebraska–Missouri border
The Nebraska–Missouri border is the state line in the central United States that largely follows the course of the Missouri River, separating Nebraska to the west from Missouri to the east.
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E.
Nebraska–South Dakota border
The Nebraska–South Dakota border is a U.S. state boundary running largely along the Missouri River, separating Nebraska to the south from South Dakota to the north.
- 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: Iowa–Minnesota border Description of subject: The Iowa–Minnesota border is the state line separating Iowa and Minnesota in the Midwestern United States, largely following straight survey lines with some sections defined by rivers.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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