Vernon County, Wisconsin
E498166
Vernon County, Wisconsin is a rural county in southwestern Wisconsin known for its Driftless Area landscapes, agriculture, and small communities such as Viroqua and Westby.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Vernon County, Wisconsin canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4972596 — 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: Vernon County, Wisconsin Context triple: [Battle of Bad Axe Monument, locatedIn, Vernon County, Wisconsin]
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A.
Winnebago County, Wisconsin
Winnebago County, Wisconsin is a county in east-central Wisconsin known for the city of Oshkosh, its location along Lake Winnebago, and a mix of manufacturing, education, and recreational activities.
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B.
Douglas County, Wisconsin
Douglas County, Wisconsin is a county in the northwestern part of the state along Lake Superior, known for its county seat of Superior and its mix of industrial, port, and forested rural areas.
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C.
Crawford County, Wisconsin
Crawford County, Wisconsin is a rural county in southwestern Wisconsin along the Mississippi River, known for its historic sites like Fort Crawford and its scenic bluffs and river valleys.
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D.
Washington County, Wisconsin
Washington County, Wisconsin is a county in southeastern Wisconsin known for its mix of suburban communities, rural landscapes, and outdoor recreation areas within the greater Milwaukee metropolitan region.
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E.
Marinette County, Wisconsin
Marinette County, Wisconsin is a county in northeastern Wisconsin known historically as one of the areas devastated by the 1871 Peshtigo Fire.
- 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: Vernon County, Wisconsin Target entity description: Vernon County, Wisconsin is a rural county in southwestern Wisconsin known for its Driftless Area landscapes, agriculture, and small communities such as Viroqua and Westby.
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A.
Winnebago County, Wisconsin
Winnebago County, Wisconsin is a county in east-central Wisconsin known for the city of Oshkosh, its location along Lake Winnebago, and a mix of manufacturing, education, and recreational activities.
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B.
Douglas County, Wisconsin
Douglas County, Wisconsin is a county in the northwestern part of the state along Lake Superior, known for its county seat of Superior and its mix of industrial, port, and forested rural areas.
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C.
Crawford County, Wisconsin
Crawford County, Wisconsin is a rural county in southwestern Wisconsin along the Mississippi River, known for its historic sites like Fort Crawford and its scenic bluffs and river valleys.
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D.
Washington County, Wisconsin
Washington County, Wisconsin is a county in southeastern Wisconsin known for its mix of suburban communities, rural landscapes, and outdoor recreation areas within the greater Milwaukee metropolitan region.
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E.
Marinette County, Wisconsin
Marinette County, Wisconsin is a county in northeastern Wisconsin known historically as one of the areas devastated by the 1871 Peshtigo Fire.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
administrative territorial entity
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county ⓘ |
| borders |
Allamakee County, Iowa
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Crawford County, Wisconsin NERFINISHED ⓘ Houston County, Minnesota NERFINISHED ⓘ Juneau County, Wisconsin NERFINISHED ⓘ La Crosse County, Wisconsin NERFINISHED ⓘ Monroe County, Wisconsin NERFINISHED ⓘ Richland County, Wisconsin NERFINISHED ⓘ Sauk County, Wisconsin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| containsProtectedArea |
Kickapoo Valley Reserve
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Wildcat Mountain State Park NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| containsSettlement |
Coon Valley, Wisconsin
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Genoa, Wisconsin NERFINISHED ⓘ Hillsboro, Wisconsin NERFINISHED ⓘ La Farge, Wisconsin NERFINISHED ⓘ Ontario, Wisconsin NERFINISHED ⓘ Readstown, Wisconsin NERFINISHED ⓘ Stoddard, Wisconsin NERFINISHED ⓘ Viroqua, Wisconsin NERFINISHED ⓘ Westby, Wisconsin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| countySeat | Viroqua, Wisconsin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| FIPSCode | 55123 ⓘ |
| GNISID | 1589767 ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
deep river valleys
ⓘ
hilly terrain ⓘ karst topography ⓘ predominantly rural ⓘ |
| hasCountySeatFunction | local government administration ⓘ |
| hasEconomicActivity |
agriculture
ⓘ
tourism ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Amish communities
ⓘ
Driftless Area topography ⓘ dairy farming ⓘ organic agriculture ⓘ rural landscapes ⓘ |
| largestCity | Viroqua, Wisconsin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Driftless Area
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Midwestern United States ⓘ Wisconsin ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
George Washington’s estate Mount Vernon
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mount Vernon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| observesDaylightSavingTime | true ⓘ |
| partOf | State of Wisconsin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| postalAbbreviationState | WI ⓘ |
| state | Wisconsin ⓘ |
| timeZone | Central Time Zone ⓘ |
| traversedByRiver |
Kickapoo River
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mississippi River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Vernon County, Wisconsin Description of subject: Vernon County, Wisconsin is a rural county in southwestern Wisconsin known for its Driftless Area landscapes, agriculture, and small communities such as Viroqua and Westby.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.