Putnam County, Indiana
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Putnam County, Indiana is a largely rural county in west-central Indiana known for its county seat Greencastle and the presence of DePauw University.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Putnam County, Indiana canonical | 34 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5579345 — 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: Putnam County, Indiana Context triple: [Greencastle, Indiana, county, Putnam County, Indiana]
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A.
Hendricks County, Indiana
Hendricks County, Indiana is a suburban county in central Indiana, west of Indianapolis, known for its growing communities and named in honor of 19th-century politician Thomas A. Hendricks.
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B.
Monroe County, Indiana
Monroe County, Indiana is a county in south-central Indiana renowned for its extensive limestone quarries and as home to the city of Bloomington and Indiana University.
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C.
Madison County, Indiana
Madison County, Indiana is a central Indiana county northeast of Indianapolis, known for its seat in Anderson and its mix of industrial history and river-centered outdoor recreation.
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D.
Franklin County, Indiana
Franklin County, Indiana is a rural county in southeastern Indiana known for its small towns, agricultural landscape, and inclusion in the greater Cincinnati metropolitan region.
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E.
Marion County, Indiana
Marion County, Indiana is a centrally located county that includes the state capital of Indianapolis and serves as a major hub for government, culture, and commerce in Indiana.
- 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: Putnam County, Indiana Target entity description: Putnam County, Indiana is a largely rural county in west-central Indiana known for its county seat Greencastle and the presence of DePauw University.
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A.
Hendricks County, Indiana
Hendricks County, Indiana is a suburban county in central Indiana, west of Indianapolis, known for its growing communities and named in honor of 19th-century politician Thomas A. Hendricks.
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B.
Monroe County, Indiana
Monroe County, Indiana is a county in south-central Indiana renowned for its extensive limestone quarries and as home to the city of Bloomington and Indiana University.
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C.
Madison County, Indiana
Madison County, Indiana is a central Indiana county northeast of Indianapolis, known for its seat in Anderson and its mix of industrial history and river-centered outdoor recreation.
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D.
Franklin County, Indiana
Franklin County, Indiana is a rural county in southeastern Indiana known for its small towns, agricultural landscape, and inclusion in the greater Cincinnati metropolitan region.
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E.
Marion County, Indiana
Marion County, Indiana is a centrally located county that includes the state capital of Indianapolis and serves as a major hub for government, culture, and commerce in Indiana.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | county in Indiana ⓘ |
| contains |
DePauw University
ⓘ
Greencastle, Indiana ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| countySeat | Greencastle, Indiana ⓘ |
| governmentType | county government ⓘ |
| hasCountySeatFunction | administrative center ⓘ |
| hasRuralCharacter | largely rural ⓘ |
| hasSettlementType | county ⓘ |
| hasUniversity | DePauw University ⓘ |
| isPartOf | United States Midwest ⓘ |
| isRural | true ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Indiana
ⓘ
west-central Indiana ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | UTC−05:00 ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Israel Putnam ⓘ |
| observesDaylightSavingTime | true ⓘ |
| partOf |
Wabash Valley region
ⓘ
linked to:
Wabash Valley
|
| region | Midwestern United States ⓘ |
| state | Indiana ⓘ |
| subdivisionOf |
Indiana
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ |
| subdivisionType | county ⓘ |
| timeZone | Eastern 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: Putnam County, Indiana Description of subject: Putnam County, Indiana is a largely rural county in west-central Indiana known for its county seat Greencastle and the presence of DePauw University.
Referenced by (34)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.