Maplewood, Minnesota, United States
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Maplewood, Minnesota, United States is a suburban city near St. Paul best known as the home of multinational conglomerate 3M’s global headquarters.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Maplewood, Minnesota | 3 |
| Maplewood, Minnesota, United States canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6525448 — 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: Maplewood, Minnesota, United States Context triple: [3M, headquartersLocation, Maplewood, Minnesota, United States]
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A.
Mapleview, Minnesota
Mapleview, Minnesota is a small incorporated community located within Mower County in the southern part of the state.
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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.
Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States
Saint Paul is the capital city of Minnesota in the United States, known for its historic architecture, cultural institutions, and role as one of the Twin Cities alongside Minneapolis.
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E.
Hibbing, Minnesota, United States
Hibbing, Minnesota, United States is a small iron-mining city on the Mesabi Range known as the hometown of several notable figures, including basketball Hall of Famer Kevin McHale and musician Bob Dylan.
- 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: Maplewood, Minnesota, United States Target entity description: Maplewood, Minnesota, United States is a suburban city near St. Paul best known as the home of multinational conglomerate 3M’s global headquarters.
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A.
Mapleview, Minnesota
Mapleview, Minnesota is a small incorporated community located within Mower County in the southern part of the state.
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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.
Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States
Saint Paul is the capital city of Minnesota in the United States, known for its historic architecture, cultural institutions, and role as one of the Twin Cities alongside Minneapolis.
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E.
Hibbing, Minnesota, United States
Hibbing, Minnesota, United States is a small iron-mining city on the Mesabi Range known as the hometown of several notable figures, including basketball Hall of Famer Kevin McHale and musician Bob Dylan.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
city
ⓘ
suburb ⓘ |
| areaCode | 651 ⓘ |
| borders |
Little Canada, Minnesota
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
North St. Paul, Minnesota NERFINISHED ⓘ Oakdale, Minnesota NERFINISHED ⓘ Roseville, Minnesota NERFINISHED ⓘ Saint Paul, Minnesota NERFINISHED ⓘ Vadnais Heights, Minnesota NERFINISHED ⓘ White Bear Lake, Minnesota NERFINISHED ⓘ Woodbury, Minnesota NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| climate | humid continental climate ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| county | Ramsey County, Minnesota NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| FIPSCode | 27-40316 ⓘ |
| GNISFeatureID | 0647490 ⓘ |
| governmentType | council–manager government ⓘ |
| hasEmployer | 3M NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasHeadquartersOf | 3M NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMajorRoad |
Interstate 494
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Interstate 94 NERFINISHED ⓘ Minnesota State Highway 120 NERFINISHED ⓘ Minnesota State Highway 36 NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 61 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMotto | “A City That Works For You” ⓘ |
| hasNotableCompany | 3M NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPark | Battle Creek Regional Park NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRegionalAttraction |
Goodrich Golf Course
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Maplewood Nature Center NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSchoolDistrict |
North St. Paul–Maplewood–Oakdale School District 622
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Roseville Area Schools (District 623) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasShoppingCenter | Maplewood Mall NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| incorporatedAsCity | 1957 ⓘ |
| isSuburbOf | Saint Paul, Minnesota NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Upper Midwest
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
eastern Twin Cities metropolitan area ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Saint Paul, Minnesota NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOn | east side of Saint Paul urban area ⓘ |
| namedFor | maple trees ⓘ |
| partOf | Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| postalCode |
55109
ⓘ
55113 ⓘ 55117 ⓘ 55119 ⓘ |
| state | Minnesota ⓘ |
| timeZone | Central Time Zone ⓘ |
| timeZoneDST |
Central Time Zone
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surface form:
Central Daylight Time
|
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: Maplewood, Minnesota, United States Description of subject: Maplewood, Minnesota, United States is a suburban city near St. Paul best known as the home of multinational conglomerate 3M’s global headquarters.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Maplewood, Minnesota
this entity surface form:
Maplewood, Minnesota
this entity surface form:
Maplewood, Minnesota