West North Central United States
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The West North Central United States is a U.S. Census Bureau region in the Midwest that includes states such as Missouri, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, and the Dakotas.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| West North Central States | 1 |
| West North Central United States canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7769445 — 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: West North Central United States Context triple: [Missouri, locatedIn, West North Central United States]
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A.
East North Central States
The East North Central States is a U.S. Census division comprising Midwestern states around the Great Lakes, including Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, and Wisconsin.
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B.
Midwestern United States
The Midwestern United States is a region of the country known for its agricultural heartland, major industrial cities, and central role in American culture and history.
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C.
Midwest Region
The Midwest Region is one of the four geographic brackets used to organize teams and games in the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Tournament.
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D.
Central United States
The Central United States is a broad region of the country that spans the middle portion of the contiguous U.S., encompassing parts of the Midwest, Great Plains, and South.
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E.
North Central
North Central is one of Nigeria’s six geopolitical zones, encompassing several states in the country’s middle belt region.
- 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: West North Central United States Target entity description: The West North Central United States is a U.S. Census Bureau region in the Midwest that includes states such as Missouri, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, and the Dakotas.
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A.
East North Central States
The East North Central States is a U.S. Census division comprising Midwestern states around the Great Lakes, including Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, and Wisconsin.
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B.
Midwestern United States
The Midwestern United States is a region of the country known for its agricultural heartland, major industrial cities, and central role in American culture and history.
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C.
Midwest Region
The Midwest Region is one of the four geographic brackets used to organize teams and games in the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Tournament.
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D.
Central United States
The Central United States is a broad region of the country that spans the middle portion of the contiguous U.S., encompassing parts of the Midwest, Great Plains, and South.
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E.
North Central
North Central is one of Nigeria’s six geopolitical zones, encompassing several states in the country’s middle belt region.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Census Bureau region
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region of the United States ⓘ subregion of the Midwest ⓘ |
| borderedBy |
Canada
NERFINISHED
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East North Central United States NERFINISHED ⓘ Mountain States NERFINISHED ⓘ South United States ⓘ |
| CensusRegionName | Midwest NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| climate |
humid continental climate
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semi-arid climate ⓘ |
| containsMajorCity |
Bismarck
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Des Moines NERFINISHED ⓘ Fargo NERFINISHED ⓘ Jefferson City NERFINISHED ⓘ Kansas City NERFINISHED ⓘ Lincoln NERFINISHED ⓘ Minneapolis NERFINISHED ⓘ Omaha NERFINISHED ⓘ Pierre NERFINISHED ⓘ Sioux Falls NERFINISHED ⓘ St. Louis NERFINISHED ⓘ St. Paul NERFINISHED ⓘ Topeka NERFINISHED ⓘ Wichita NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| containsMajorRiver |
Arkansas River
NERFINISHED
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Mississippi River NERFINISHED ⓘ Missouri River NERFINISHED ⓘ Platte River NERFINISHED ⓘ Red River of the North NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| hasPart |
Iowa
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Kansas NERFINISHED ⓘ Minnesota NERFINISHED ⓘ Missouri NERFINISHED ⓘ Nebraska NERFINISHED ⓘ North Dakota NERFINISHED ⓘ South Dakota NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
agricultural production
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cattle ranching ⓘ corn production ⓘ soybean production ⓘ wheat production ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone |
Central Time Zone
ⓘ
Mountain Time Zone ⓘ |
| partOf |
Midwestern United States
ⓘ
United States Census Bureau regions NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| regionCode | Census Division 4 ⓘ |
| subdivisionOf | Census Region 2 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: West North Central United States Description of subject: The West North Central United States is a U.S. Census Bureau region in the Midwest that includes states such as Missouri, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, and the Dakotas.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Missouri
United States Census Bureau’s West North Central division
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alsoKnownAs
→
West North Central United States
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this entity surface form:
West North Central States