Clear Lake, Wisconsin
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Clear Lake, Wisconsin is a small rural village in Polk County best known as the birthplace of environmentalist and former U.S. Senator Gaylord Nelson, founder of Earth Day.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Clear Lake, Wisconsin canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3599893 — 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: Clear Lake, Wisconsin Context triple: [Gaylord Nelson, placeOfBirth, Clear Lake, Wisconsin]
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A.
Green Lake, Wisconsin
Green Lake, Wisconsin is a small resort city in central Wisconsin known for its deep, spring-fed lake, outdoor recreation, and tourism.
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B.
Lake Waubesa
Lake Waubesa is a freshwater lake in south-central Wisconsin that forms part of the Yahara River chain and serves as a popular site for recreation and wildlife habitat near Madison.
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C.
Cedar Lake
Cedar Lake is a popular recreational lake in Minneapolis, Minnesota, known for its beaches, trails, and natural surroundings within the city's Chain of Lakes.
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D.
Lake Winnebago
Lake Winnebago is a large freshwater lake in east-central Wisconsin, known for its recreational fishing, boating, and role as a key feature of the Fox River–Lake Winnebago watershed.
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E.
Lake Monona
Lake Monona is a prominent freshwater lake in Madison, Wisconsin, known for its recreational activities, scenic shoreline, and views of the city’s skyline and state capitol.
- 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: Clear Lake, Wisconsin Target entity description: Clear Lake, Wisconsin is a small rural village in Polk County best known as the birthplace of environmentalist and former U.S. Senator Gaylord Nelson, founder of Earth Day.
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A.
Green Lake, Wisconsin
Green Lake, Wisconsin is a small resort city in central Wisconsin known for its deep, spring-fed lake, outdoor recreation, and tourism.
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B.
Lake Waubesa
Lake Waubesa is a freshwater lake in south-central Wisconsin that forms part of the Yahara River chain and serves as a popular site for recreation and wildlife habitat near Madison.
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C.
Cedar Lake
Cedar Lake is a popular recreational lake in Minneapolis, Minnesota, known for its beaches, trails, and natural surroundings within the city's Chain of Lakes.
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D.
Lake Winnebago
Lake Winnebago is a large freshwater lake in east-central Wisconsin, known for its recreational fishing, boating, and role as a key feature of the Fox River–Lake Winnebago watershed.
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E.
Lake Monona
Lake Monona is a prominent freshwater lake in Madison, Wisconsin, known for its recreational activities, scenic shoreline, and views of the city’s skyline and state capitol.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United States Senator
ⓘ
environmentalist ⓘ village ⓘ |
| areaCode |
534
ⓘ
715 ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Clear Lake, Wisconsin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Clear Lake, Wisconsin ONNED1 ⓘ |
| climate | humid continental climate ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| county | Polk County, Wisconsin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| founded | Earth Day ⓘ |
| governmentType | village board ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
rural community
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small population ⓘ |
| hasEducationalInstitution | Clear Lake School District ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
agricultural surroundings
ⓘ
small-town main street ⓘ |
| hasLandUse |
agricultural
ⓘ
commercial center of surrounding rural area ⓘ residential ⓘ |
| hasLocalGovernment | Village of Clear Lake government ⓘ |
| hasSettlementType | village ⓘ |
| knownFor |
birthplace of Gaylord Nelson
ⓘ
connection to Earth Day ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Midwestern United States
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Polk County, Wisconsin NERFINISHED ⓘ United States of America ⓘ Wisconsin ⓘ northwestern Wisconsin ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Clear Lake (local lake) ⓘ |
| notablePerson | Gaylord Nelson ⓘ |
| observesDaylightSavingTime | yes ⓘ |
| partOf |
Wisconsin
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surface form:
State of Wisconsin
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| postalCodeType | ZIP code ⓘ |
| region |
Polk County, Florida
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surface form:
Polk County region
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| state | Wisconsin ⓘ |
| timeZone | Central Time Zone ⓘ |
| transportation | served by local county roads ⓘ |
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: Clear Lake, Wisconsin Description of subject: Clear Lake, Wisconsin is a small rural village in Polk County best known as the birthplace of environmentalist and former U.S. Senator Gaylord Nelson, founder of Earth Day.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.