St. Joseph County, Michigan
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St. Joseph County, Michigan is a largely rural county in the southwestern part of the state known for its agricultural landscape, small towns, and numerous rivers and lakes.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| St. Joseph County, Michigan canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2803265 — 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: St. Joseph County, Michigan Context triple: [Kalamazoo County, Michigan, borders, St. Joseph County, Michigan]
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A.
Monroe County, Michigan
Monroe County, Michigan is a southeastern Michigan county along Lake Erie known for its industrial history, agricultural areas, and proximity to the Detroit metropolitan region.
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B.
Isabella County, Michigan
Isabella County, Michigan is a county in the central part of the state whose seat and largest city is Mount Pleasant.
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C.
Marquette County, Michigan
Marquette County, Michigan is a large county in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula known for its Lake Superior shoreline, extensive forests, and the city of Marquette as its principal urban and economic center.
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D.
St. Clair County, Michigan
St. Clair County, Michigan is a county in the eastern part of the state along the St. Clair River, known for its international border with Ontario, Canada and its county seat, Port Huron.
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E.
Gratiot County, Michigan
Gratiot County, Michigan is a predominantly rural county in the central part of Michigan’s Lower Peninsula, known for its agricultural landscape and small communities such as its county seat, Ithaca.
- 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: St. Joseph County, Michigan Target entity description: St. Joseph County, Michigan is a largely rural county in the southwestern part of the state known for its agricultural landscape, small towns, and numerous rivers and lakes.
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A.
Monroe County, Michigan
Monroe County, Michigan is a southeastern Michigan county along Lake Erie known for its industrial history, agricultural areas, and proximity to the Detroit metropolitan region.
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B.
Isabella County, Michigan
Isabella County, Michigan is a county in the central part of the state whose seat and largest city is Mount Pleasant.
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C.
Marquette County, Michigan
Marquette County, Michigan is a large county in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula known for its Lake Superior shoreline, extensive forests, and the city of Marquette as its principal urban and economic center.
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D.
St. Clair County, Michigan
St. Clair County, Michigan is a county in the eastern part of the state along the St. Clair River, known for its international border with Ontario, Canada and its county seat, Port Huron.
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E.
Gratiot County, Michigan
Gratiot County, Michigan is a predominantly rural county in the central part of Michigan’s Lower Peninsula, known for its agricultural landscape and small communities such as its county seat, Ithaca.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
county
ⓘ
county in Michigan ⓘ |
| bordersCounty |
Branch County, Michigan
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Cass County, Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ Elkhart County, Indiana NERFINISHED ⓘ Kalamazoo County, Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ LaGrange County, Indiana NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| bordersState | Indiana NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| foundedIn | 1829 ⓘ |
| hasAreaCode | 269 ⓘ |
| hasBorderFeature | St. Joseph River forms part of the county boundary NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
agricultural landscape
ⓘ
largely rural ⓘ numerous rivers and lakes ⓘ |
| hasCity |
Sturgis, Michigan
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Three Rivers, Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasClimate | humid continental climate ⓘ |
| hasCountyGovernmentType | county board of commissioners ⓘ |
| hasCountySeat | Centreville, Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasEconomySector |
agriculture
ⓘ
manufacturing ⓘ |
| hasFIPSCode | 26-149 ⓘ |
| hasGNISID | 1626474 ⓘ |
| hasJurisdiction |
county courts
ⓘ
local law enforcement ⓘ |
| hasLargestCity | Sturgis, Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasOfficialWebsite | https://www.stjosephcountymi.org/ ⓘ |
| hasSettlementType | county ⓘ |
| hasVillage |
Burr Oak, Michigan
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Centreville, Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ Colon, Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ Constantine, Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ Marcellus, Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ Mendon, Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ White Pigeon, Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isPartOfCongressionalDistrict | Michigan's 6th congressional district NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn | southwestern Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | Midwestern United States ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Eastern Time Zone ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Saint Joseph NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Michiana region NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| state |
Michigan (most of state)
ⓘ
surface form:
Michigan
|
| traversedByRiver |
Prairie River (Michigan)
NERFINISHED
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Rocky River (Michigan) NERFINISHED ⓘ St. Joseph River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usesMeasurementSystem | U.S. customary units ⓘ |
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: St. Joseph County, Michigan Description of subject: St. Joseph County, Michigan is a largely rural county in the southwestern part of the state known for its agricultural landscape, small towns, and numerous rivers and lakes.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Calhoun County, Michigan