Howard County, Nebraska
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Howard County, Nebraska is a rural county in central Nebraska known for its small agricultural communities and location along the North Loup River.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Howard County, Nebraska canonical | 16 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5980536 — 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: Howard County, Nebraska Context triple: [Elba, Nebraska, county, Howard County, Nebraska]
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A.
Washington County, Nebraska
Washington County, Nebraska is a county in eastern Nebraska along the Missouri River, just north of Omaha, known for its mix of rural communities and proximity to the Omaha metropolitan area.
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B.
Hall County, Nebraska
Hall County, Nebraska is a centrally located county in the state of Nebraska whose largest city and county seat is Grand Island.
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C.
Dakota County, Nebraska
Dakota County, Nebraska is a county in northeastern Nebraska along the Missouri River, known for its county seat South Sioux City and its inclusion in the Sioux City metropolitan area.
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D.
York County, Nebraska
York County, Nebraska is a rural county in the south-central part of the state, known for its agricultural economy and the city of York as its county seat.
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E.
Sioux County, Nebraska
Sioux County, Nebraska is a sparsely populated county in the state's northwestern Panhandle region, known for its rugged High Plains landscape and significant paleontological and archaeological sites.
- 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: Howard County, Nebraska Target entity description: Howard County, Nebraska is a rural county in central Nebraska known for its small agricultural communities and location along the North Loup River.
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A.
Washington County, Nebraska
Washington County, Nebraska is a county in eastern Nebraska along the Missouri River, just north of Omaha, known for its mix of rural communities and proximity to the Omaha metropolitan area.
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B.
Hall County, Nebraska
Hall County, Nebraska is a centrally located county in the state of Nebraska whose largest city and county seat is Grand Island.
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C.
Dakota County, Nebraska
Dakota County, Nebraska is a county in northeastern Nebraska along the Missouri River, known for its county seat South Sioux City and its inclusion in the Sioux City metropolitan area.
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D.
York County, Nebraska
York County, Nebraska is a rural county in the south-central part of the state, known for its agricultural economy and the city of York as its county seat.
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E.
Sioux County, Nebraska
Sioux County, Nebraska is a sparsely populated county in the state's northwestern Panhandle region, known for its rugged High Plains landscape and significant paleontological and archaeological sites.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (34)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
administrative territorial entity
ⓘ
county ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| countySeat | St. Paul, Nebraska ⓘ |
| hasBorder |
Buffalo County, Nebraska
ⓘ
Greeley County, Nebraska ⓘ Hall County, Nebraska ⓘ Merrick County, Nebraska ⓘ Sherman County, Nebraska ⓘ |
| hasCity | St. Paul, Nebraska ⓘ |
| hasLandUse |
cropland
ⓘ
pasture ⓘ |
| hasMajorEconomicActivity |
farming
ⓘ
livestock production ⓘ |
| hasVillage |
Boelus, Nebraska
ⓘ
Cotesfield, Nebraska ⓘ Dannebrog, Nebraska ⓘ Elba, Nebraska ⓘ Farwell, Nebraska ⓘ |
| hasWatercourse | North Loup River ⓘ |
| isAgriculturalRegion | true ⓘ |
| isRural | true ⓘ |
| knownFor |
agriculture
ⓘ
rural communities ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Nebraska
ⓘ
central Nebraska ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | Midwestern United States ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Central Time Zone ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Oliver Otis Howard ⓘ |
| partOf | Great Plains ⓘ |
| seat | St. Paul, Nebraska ⓘ |
| state | Nebraska ⓘ |
| subdivisionType | county ⓘ |
| traversedBy | North Loup River ⓘ |
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: Howard County, Nebraska Description of subject: Howard County, Nebraska is a rural county in central Nebraska known for its small agricultural communities and location along the North Loup River.
Referenced by (16)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Elba, Nebraska, United States
subject linked to:
Elba, Nebraska, United States
subject linked to:
Elba, Nebraska, United States
subject linked to:
St. Paul, Nebraska, United States
subject linked to:
St. Paul, Nebraska, United States
subject linked to:
St. Paul, Nebraska, United States
subject linked to:
St. Paul city council