Belle Plaine, Minnesota, United States
E570923
Belle Plaine is a small city in Scott County, Minnesota, known for its rural character and location along the Minnesota River southwest of the Twin Cities.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Belle Plaine, Minnesota | 3 |
| Belle Plaine Township, Minnesota | 1 |
| Belle Plaine, Minnesota, United States canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6142351 — 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: Belle Plaine, Minnesota, United States Context triple: [Beth Riesgraf, placeOfBirth, Belle Plaine, Minnesota, United States]
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A.
Blaine, Minnesota, United States
Blaine is a suburban city in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan area of Minnesota, known for its rapid growth, residential communities, and the National Sports Center complex.
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B.
Winona, Minnesota, United States
Winona, Minnesota, United States, is a historic Mississippi River city known for its 19th-century architecture, river bluffs, and cultural institutions such as Winona State University and the Minnesota Marine Art Museum.
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C.
Coon Rapids, Minnesota, United States
Coon Rapids is a northern suburb of Minneapolis in Anoka County, Minnesota, known as one of the state's larger cities with a mix of residential neighborhoods, parks, and commercial areas.
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D.
Morris, Minnesota
Morris, Minnesota is a small city in west-central Minnesota known for hosting the University of Minnesota Morris and serving as a regional educational and agricultural hub.
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E.
Grand Meadow, Minnesota
Grand Meadow, Minnesota is a small rural city in southeastern Minnesota known for its agricultural surroundings and close-knit community.
- 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: Belle Plaine, Minnesota, United States Target entity description: Belle Plaine is a small city in Scott County, Minnesota, known for its rural character and location along the Minnesota River southwest of the Twin Cities.
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A.
Blaine, Minnesota, United States
Blaine is a suburban city in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan area of Minnesota, known for its rapid growth, residential communities, and the National Sports Center complex.
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B.
Winona, Minnesota, United States
Winona, Minnesota, United States, is a historic Mississippi River city known for its 19th-century architecture, river bluffs, and cultural institutions such as Winona State University and the Minnesota Marine Art Museum.
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C.
Coon Rapids, Minnesota, United States
Coon Rapids is a northern suburb of Minneapolis in Anoka County, Minnesota, known as one of the state's larger cities with a mix of residential neighborhoods, parks, and commercial areas.
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D.
Morris, Minnesota
Morris, Minnesota is a small city in west-central Minnesota known for hosting the University of Minnesota Morris and serving as a regional educational and agricultural hub.
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E.
Grand Meadow, Minnesota
Grand Meadow, Minnesota is a small rural city in southeastern Minnesota known for its agricultural surroundings and close-knit community.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | city ⓘ |
| areaCode | 952 ⓘ |
| climateRegion | humid continental climate ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| countrySubdivision | Midwestern United States ⓘ |
| county | Scott County, Minnesota NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| governmentType | city government ⓘ |
| hasMunicipalStatus | incorporated city ⓘ |
| hasRuralCharacter | true ⓘ |
| isCountySeat | false ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Minnesota
ⓘ
Scott County, Minnesota NERFINISHED ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| locatedInCountySubdivision | southern Scott County, Minnesota ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | Minnesota River Valley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOnRiver | Minnesota River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedSouthwestOf | Minneapolis–Saint Paul NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedInLanguage | French ⓘ |
| nameMeaning | beautiful prairie ⓘ |
| nearbyMajorCity |
Minneapolis, Minnesota
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Saint Paul, Minnesota NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| postalCode | 56011 ⓘ |
| primaryLanguage | English ⓘ |
| roadAccess | Minnesota State Highway 25 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| state | Minnesota ⓘ |
| timeZone | Central Time Zone ⓘ |
| timeZoneDST |
Central Time Zone
ⓘ
surface form:
Central Daylight Time
|
| transportationCorridor | U.S. Route 169 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Belle Plaine, Minnesota, United States Description of subject: Belle Plaine is a small city in Scott County, Minnesota, known for its rural character and location along the Minnesota River southwest of the Twin Cities.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Belle Plaine, Minnesota
this entity surface form:
Belle Plaine Township, Minnesota
this entity surface form:
Belle Plaine, Minnesota
this entity surface form:
Belle Plaine, Minnesota