Ohio State Penitentiary
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Ohio State Penitentiary was a historic maximum-security prison in Columbus, Ohio, known for housing notorious inmates and for several famous escapes and incidents before its closure and demolition.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ohio State Penitentiary canonical | 1 |
| Ohio State Penitentiary (historic Columbus prison) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6019674 — 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: Ohio State Penitentiary Context triple: [John H. Morgan, escapedFrom, Ohio State Penitentiary]
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A.
Ohio State Reformatory
The Ohio State Reformatory is a historic former prison in Mansfield, Ohio, best known for serving as the primary filming location of the acclaimed film "The Shawshank Redemption."
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B.
Oklahoma State Penitentiary
Oklahoma State Penitentiary is a maximum-security state prison in Oklahoma that houses some of the state’s most serious offenders and includes Oklahoma’s death row and execution chamber.
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C.
Clinton Correctional Facility
Clinton Correctional Facility is a maximum-security state prison in Dannemora, New York, known for housing high-profile inmates and its long-standing role in the New York prison system.
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D.
Valley State Prison
Valley State Prison is a California state correctional facility for men located in the city of Chowchilla.
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E.
Lincoln Prison
Lincoln Prison is a correctional facility located in the city of Lincoln in Lincolnshire, England.
- 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: Ohio State Penitentiary Target entity description: Ohio State Penitentiary was a historic maximum-security prison in Columbus, Ohio, known for housing notorious inmates and for several famous escapes and incidents before its closure and demolition.
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A.
Ohio State Reformatory
The Ohio State Reformatory is a historic former prison in Mansfield, Ohio, best known for serving as the primary filming location of the acclaimed film "The Shawshank Redemption."
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B.
Oklahoma State Penitentiary
Oklahoma State Penitentiary is a maximum-security state prison in Oklahoma that houses some of the state’s most serious offenders and includes Oklahoma’s death row and execution chamber.
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C.
Clinton Correctional Facility
Clinton Correctional Facility is a maximum-security state prison in Dannemora, New York, known for housing high-profile inmates and its long-standing role in the New York prison system.
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D.
Valley State Prison
Valley State Prison is a California state correctional facility for men located in the city of Chowchilla.
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E.
Lincoln Prison
Lincoln Prison is a correctional facility located in the city of Lincoln in Lincolnshire, England.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
correctional facility
ⓘ
prison ⓘ |
| category |
buildings and structures in Columbus, Ohio
ⓘ
defunct prisons in Ohio ⓘ maximum security prisons in the United States ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| function |
detention of high-risk inmates
ⓘ
incarceration of convicted criminals ⓘ |
| governedBy | laws of the State of Ohio ⓘ |
| hasFacilityType |
administrative buildings
ⓘ
cell blocks ⓘ execution facilities ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | historic prison ⓘ |
| inmateType | adult male prisoners ⓘ |
| knownFor |
famous escapes
ⓘ
housing notorious inmates ⓘ prison incidents ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Columbus, Ohio
ⓘ
Franklin County, Ohio ⓘ Ohio ⓘ |
| operatedBy |
Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction
ⓘ
State of Ohio ⓘ
linked to:
Ohio
|
| partOf |
Ohio state prison system
ⓘ
linked to:
Ohio prison system
|
| securityClassification | maximum security ⓘ |
| status |
closed
ⓘ
demolished ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
discussions of prison reform in Ohio
ⓘ
historical studies of American prisons ⓘ media reports on prison escapes ⓘ |
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: Ohio State Penitentiary Description of subject: Ohio State Penitentiary was a historic maximum-security prison in Columbus, Ohio, known for housing notorious inmates and for several famous escapes and incidents before its closure and demolition.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Ohio Penitentiary, Columbus, Ohio, United States
linked to: Ohio State Penitentiary