Richland, Michigan
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Richland, Michigan is a small village in southwestern Michigan known for its rural character and proximity to Gull Lake.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Richland, Michigan canonical | 1 |
| village of Richland, Michigan | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2803256 — 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: Richland, Michigan Context triple: [Kalamazoo County, Michigan, hasVillage, Richland, Michigan]
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A.
Westland, Michigan
Westland, Michigan is a suburban city in Wayne County within the Detroit metropolitan area, known primarily as a residential and retail community.
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B.
Leland, Michigan
Leland, Michigan is a small historic village on the shores of Lake Michigan known for its picturesque harbor and preserved fishing district called Fishtown.
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C.
Ironwood, Michigan
Ironwood, Michigan is a small city in the western Upper Peninsula known for its historic mining roots, proximity to outdoor recreation in the Gogebic Range, and location near the Wisconsin border.
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D.
Riverview, Michigan
Riverview, Michigan is a small suburban city in southeastern Michigan, located along the Detroit River and known for its residential character within the Downriver area near Detroit.
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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: Richland, Michigan Target entity description: Richland, Michigan is a small village in southwestern Michigan known for its rural character and proximity to Gull Lake.
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A.
Westland, Michigan
Westland, Michigan is a suburban city in Wayne County within the Detroit metropolitan area, known primarily as a residential and retail community.
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B.
Leland, Michigan
Leland, Michigan is a small historic village on the shores of Lake Michigan known for its picturesque harbor and preserved fishing district called Fishtown.
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C.
Ironwood, Michigan
Ironwood, Michigan is a small city in the western Upper Peninsula known for its historic mining roots, proximity to outdoor recreation in the Gogebic Range, and location near the Wisconsin border.
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D.
Riverview, Michigan
Riverview, Michigan is a small suburban city in southeastern Michigan, located along the Detroit River and known for its residential character within the Downriver area near Detroit.
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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 |
human settlement
ⓘ
village ⓘ |
| areaCode | 269 ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| county | Kalamazoo County NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| elevationInFeet | 896 ⓘ |
| elevationInMeters | 273 ⓘ |
| FIPSCode | 26-68260 ⓘ |
| GNISFeatureID | 639842 ⓘ |
| governmentType | village council ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
rural community
ⓘ
small village ⓘ |
| hasFeature | rural character ⓘ |
| hasLakeNearby | Gull Lake NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLandUse |
agricultural
ⓘ
residential ⓘ |
| hasLatitude | 42.377 ⓘ |
| hasLongitude | -85.455 ⓘ |
| isPartOfMetropolitanArea | Kalamazoo–Portage metropolitan area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Kalamazoo County, Michigan
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeTerritory | Richland Township, Kalamazoo County, Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Eastern Time Zone ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Gull Lake NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Southwestern Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| postalCode | 49083 ⓘ |
| state |
Michigan (most of state)
ⓘ
surface form:
Michigan
|
| subdivisionType | village ⓘ |
| timeZoneDST |
Eastern Time Zone
ⓘ
surface form:
Eastern Daylight Time
|
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: Richland, Michigan Description of subject: Richland, Michigan is a small village in southwestern Michigan known for its rural character and proximity to Gull Lake.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
village of Richland, Michigan