Rice County, Minnesota
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Rice County, Minnesota is a predominantly rural county in southeastern Minnesota known for its historic towns like Northfield and Faribault and as home to liberal arts institutions such as Carleton College.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Rice County, Minnesota canonical | 61 |
| Rice County | 2 |
| History of Rice County, Minnesota | 1 |
| Rice County region | 1 |
| Rice County, Minnesota townships | 1 |
| Rice County, Minnesota, United States | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T490761 — 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: Rice County, Minnesota Context triple: [Carleton College, locatedIn, Rice County, Minnesota]
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Fillmore County, Minnesota
Fillmore County, Minnesota is a predominantly rural county in southeastern Minnesota known for its rolling farmland, karst topography, and small historic towns such as Preston and Lanesboro.
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Mower County, Minnesota
Mower County, Minnesota is a predominantly rural county in southeastern Minnesota known for its agricultural economy and the city of Austin, home to the Hormel Foods Corporation.
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C.
Linn County, Iowa
Linn County, Iowa is a populous county in eastern Iowa whose seat is Cedar Rapids, one of the state's largest cities and a major economic and cultural center.
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D.
Washington County, Iowa
Washington County, Iowa is a predominantly rural county in southeastern Iowa known for its agricultural economy and small communities such as its county seat, Washington.
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E.
Black Hawk County
Black Hawk County is a county in northeastern Iowa that includes the city of Cedar Falls and has Waterloo as its county seat.
- 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: Rice County, Minnesota Target entity description: Rice County, Minnesota is a predominantly rural county in southeastern Minnesota known for its historic towns like Northfield and Faribault and as home to liberal arts institutions such as Carleton College.
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A.
Fillmore County, Minnesota
Fillmore County, Minnesota is a predominantly rural county in southeastern Minnesota known for its rolling farmland, karst topography, and small historic towns such as Preston and Lanesboro.
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B.
Mower County, Minnesota
Mower County, Minnesota is a predominantly rural county in southeastern Minnesota known for its agricultural economy and the city of Austin, home to the Hormel Foods Corporation.
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C.
Linn County, Iowa
Linn County, Iowa is a populous county in eastern Iowa whose seat is Cedar Rapids, one of the state's largest cities and a major economic and cultural center.
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D.
Washington County, Iowa
Washington County, Iowa is a predominantly rural county in southeastern Iowa known for its agricultural economy and small communities such as its county seat, Washington.
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E.
Black Hawk County
Black Hawk County is a county in northeastern Iowa that includes the city of Cedar Falls and has Waterloo as its county seat.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
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: Rice County, Minnesota Description of subject: Rice County, Minnesota is a predominantly rural county in southeastern Minnesota known for its historic towns like Northfield and Faribault and as home to liberal arts institutions such as Carleton College.
Referenced by (67)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Rice County
this entity surface form:
Rice County
this entity surface form:
Rice County, Minnesota, United States
this entity surface form:
Rice County region
this entity surface form:
Rice County, Minnesota townships