New Era, Michigan
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New Era, Michigan is a small village in Oceana County known for its rural character and agricultural surroundings in the western part of the state.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| New Era, Michigan canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5130509 — 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: New Era, Michigan Context triple: [Oceana County, Michigan, containsSettlement, New Era, Michigan]
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A.
Republic, Michigan
Republic, Michigan is a small rural community in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula known for its forested landscape, outdoor recreation, and historic iron mining roots.
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B.
Hancock, Michigan
Hancock, Michigan is a small city in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula known for its rich copper-mining heritage, Finnish-American culture, and proximity to the Keweenaw Peninsula’s historic and natural attractions.
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C.
Wyandotte, Michigan
Wyandotte, Michigan is a small industrial city and Downriver suburb of Detroit located along the western shore of the Detroit River.
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D.
Empire, Michigan
Empire, Michigan is a small village on the shores of Lake Michigan known as a gateway to the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore.
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E.
Gwinn, Michigan
Gwinn, Michigan is a small unincorporated community and census-designated place in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula known historically as a planned company town for the Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Company.
- 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: New Era, Michigan Target entity description: New Era, Michigan is a small village in Oceana County known for its rural character and agricultural surroundings in the western part of the state.
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A.
Republic, Michigan
Republic, Michigan is a small rural community in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula known for its forested landscape, outdoor recreation, and historic iron mining roots.
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B.
Hancock, Michigan
Hancock, Michigan is a small city in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula known for its rich copper-mining heritage, Finnish-American culture, and proximity to the Keweenaw Peninsula’s historic and natural attractions.
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C.
Wyandotte, Michigan
Wyandotte, Michigan is a small industrial city and Downriver suburb of Detroit located along the western shore of the Detroit River.
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D.
Empire, Michigan
Empire, Michigan is a small village on the shores of Lake Michigan known as a gateway to the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore.
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E.
Gwinn, Michigan
Gwinn, Michigan is a small unincorporated community and census-designated place in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula known historically as a planned company town for the Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Company.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | village ⓘ |
| areaCode | 231 ⓘ |
| climateRegion | humid continental climate ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| countrySubdivision | State of Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| county | Oceana County NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| economicActivity |
agriculture
ⓘ
fruit farming ⓘ rural services ⓘ |
| governmentType | village government ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
agricultural surroundings
ⓘ
rural ⓘ small population ⓘ |
| hasLandUse | agriculture ⓘ |
| hasLocalGovernment | village council ⓘ |
| isInCountySeatOf | Oceana County (county seat: Hart, Michigan) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isInRegion | Great Lakes region NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isNear | Lake Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isRuralCommunity | true ⓘ |
| isSettlement | true ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Midwestern United States
ⓘ
Oceana County, Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ western Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| postalCode | 49446 ⓘ |
| region | West Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| state |
Michigan (most of state)
ⓘ
surface form:
Michigan
|
| timeZone | Eastern Time Zone ⓘ |
| timeZoneDST |
Eastern Time Zone
ⓘ
surface form:
Eastern Daylight Time
|
| transportationAccess | 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: New Era, Michigan Description of subject: New Era, Michigan is a small village in Oceana County known for its rural character and agricultural surroundings in the western part of the state.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.