Ashland County, Wisconsin
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Ashland County, Wisconsin is a county in northern Wisconsin along Lake Superior, known for its forests, outdoor recreation, and the city of Ashland as its county seat.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ashland County, Wisconsin canonical | 22 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5437460 — 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: Ashland County, Wisconsin Context triple: [Bayfield County, Wisconsin, adjacentTo, Ashland County, Wisconsin]
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A.
Oconto County, Wisconsin
Oconto County, Wisconsin is a county in northeastern Wisconsin known for its forests, waterways, and historical significance as one of the areas affected by the devastating Peshtigo Fire of 1871.
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B.
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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C.
Bayfield County, Wisconsin
Bayfield County, Wisconsin is a sparsely populated county in northern Wisconsin known for its Lake Superior shoreline, forests, and the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore.
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D.
Waupaca County, Wisconsin
Waupaca County, Wisconsin is a predominantly rural county in central Wisconsin known for its lakes, forests, and small communities, with Waupaca as its county seat.
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E.
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.
- 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: Ashland County, Wisconsin Target entity description: Ashland County, Wisconsin is a county in northern Wisconsin along Lake Superior, known for its forests, outdoor recreation, and the city of Ashland as its county seat.
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A.
Oconto County, Wisconsin
Oconto County, Wisconsin is a county in northeastern Wisconsin known for its forests, waterways, and historical significance as one of the areas affected by the devastating Peshtigo Fire of 1871.
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B.
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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C.
Bayfield County, Wisconsin
Bayfield County, Wisconsin is a sparsely populated county in northern Wisconsin known for its Lake Superior shoreline, forests, and the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore.
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D.
Waupaca County, Wisconsin
Waupaca County, Wisconsin is a predominantly rural county in central Wisconsin known for its lakes, forests, and small communities, with Waupaca as its county seat.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
administrative territorial entity
ⓘ
county ⓘ |
| bordersBodyOfWater |
Chequamegon Bay
NERFINISHED
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Lake Superior NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| capital | Ashland, Wisconsin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| climate | humid continental climate ⓘ |
| contains |
Bad River Indian Reservation
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
City of Ashland, Wisconsin NERFINISHED ⓘ City of Mellen, Wisconsin NERFINISHED ⓘ Madeline Island (part) NERFINISHED ⓘ Morse, Wisconsin NERFINISHED ⓘ Sanborn, Wisconsin NERFINISHED ⓘ Town of Ashland, Wisconsin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| FIPSCode | 55003 ⓘ |
| GNISID | 1582685 ⓘ |
| hasBorderWith |
Bayfield County, Wisconsin
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Gogebic County, Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ Iron County, Wisconsin NERFINISHED ⓘ Ontonagon County, Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ Price County, Wisconsin NERFINISHED ⓘ Sawyer County, Wisconsin NERFINISHED ⓘ Vilas County, Wisconsin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMajorHighway |
U.S. Route 2
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Wisconsin State Highway 112 NERFINISHED ⓘ Wisconsin State Highway 118 NERFINISHED ⓘ Wisconsin State Highway 13 NERFINISHED ⓘ Wisconsin State Highway 169 NERFINISHED ⓘ Wisconsin State Highway 77 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasProtectedArea |
Big Bay State Park
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest NERFINISHED ⓘ Copper Falls State Park NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSignificantIndustry |
forestry
ⓘ
outdoor recreation economy ⓘ tourism ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Lake Superior shoreline
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
forests ⓘ outdoor recreation ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Wisconsin
ⓘ
northern Wisconsin ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | UTC−06:00 ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Lake Superior NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Ashland, Wisconsin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| observesDaylightSavingTime | UTC−05:00 ⓘ |
| partOf |
Lake Superior snowbelt region
ⓘ
Midwestern United States ⓘ
surface form:
United States Midwest
|
| seat | Ashland, Wisconsin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| state | Wisconsin ⓘ |
| timeZone | Central Time Zone ⓘ |
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: Ashland County, Wisconsin Description of subject: Ashland County, Wisconsin is a county in northern Wisconsin along Lake Superior, known for its forests, outdoor recreation, and the city of Ashland as its county seat.
Referenced by (22)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.