Saint Cloud, Minnesota
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Saint Cloud, Minnesota is a central Minnesota city on the Mississippi River known historically as a regional hub for granite quarrying and higher education.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| St. Cloud, Minnesota | 2 |
| Saint Cloud, Minnesota canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7605004 — 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: Saint Cloud, Minnesota Context triple: [St. Cloud, Florida, namedAfter, Saint Cloud, Minnesota]
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A.
Farmington, Minnesota
Farmington, Minnesota is a suburban city in the Twin Cities metropolitan area known for its residential communities, schools, and small-town character.
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B.
Mankato, Minnesota
Mankato, Minnesota is a city in south-central Minnesota known historically as the site of the largest mass execution in U.S. history following the Dakota War of 1862.
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C.
St. Francis, Minnesota
St. Francis, Minnesota is a small city in Anoka County known for its suburban-rural character and location along the Rum River in the northern Twin Cities metropolitan area.
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D.
Burnsville, Minnesota
Burnsville, Minnesota is a suburban city in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan area known for its residential communities, commercial centers, and proximity to major transportation routes.
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E.
Carver, Minnesota
Carver, Minnesota is a small historic city along the Minnesota River known for its well-preserved 19th-century architecture and scenic natural surroundings.
- 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: Saint Cloud, Minnesota Target entity description: Saint Cloud, Minnesota is a central Minnesota city on the Mississippi River known historically as a regional hub for granite quarrying and higher education.
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A.
Farmington, Minnesota
Farmington, Minnesota is a suburban city in the Twin Cities metropolitan area known for its residential communities, schools, and small-town character.
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B.
Mankato, Minnesota
Mankato, Minnesota is a city in south-central Minnesota known historically as the site of the largest mass execution in U.S. history following the Dakota War of 1862.
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C.
St. Francis, Minnesota
St. Francis, Minnesota is a small city in Anoka County known for its suburban-rural character and location along the Rum River in the northern Twin Cities metropolitan area.
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D.
Burnsville, Minnesota
Burnsville, Minnesota is a suburban city in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan area known for its residential communities, commercial centers, and proximity to major transportation routes.
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E.
Carver, Minnesota
Carver, Minnesota is a small historic city along the Minnesota River known for its well-preserved 19th-century architecture and scenic natural surroundings.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | city ⓘ |
| areaCode | 320 ⓘ |
| climate | humid continental climate ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| countySeatOf | Stearns County, Minnesota NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distanceFromMinneapolis | approximately 65 miles northwest ⓘ |
| economicRole | regional center for Central Minnesota ⓘ |
| foundedIn | 1850s ⓘ |
| governingBody | St. Cloud City Council NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| governmentType | mayor–council government ⓘ |
| hasCollege | College of Saint Benedict and Saint John’s University (nearby affiliation) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCommunityCollege | St. Cloud Technical and Community College NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCorrectionalFacility | Minnesota Correctional Facility – St. Cloud NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasHistoricDistrict | St. Cloud Commercial Historic District NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasHospital | CentraCare – St. Cloud Hospital NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPark |
Clemens Gardens
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Munsinger Gardens NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPublicTransit | Metro Bus (St. Cloud) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasUniversity | St. Cloud State University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalEconomicActivity | granite quarrying and processing ⓘ |
| incorporatedAsCityIn | 1856 ⓘ |
| knownFor |
granite quarrying
ⓘ
higher education ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Stearns County, Minnesota NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | Upper Midwest NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOnRiver | Mississippi River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| majorIndustry |
education
ⓘ
healthcare ⓘ manufacturing ⓘ |
| metropolitanAreaPopulation | over 200000 ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Saint-Cloud, France NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nicknamed | Granite City NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partlyLocatedIn |
Benton County, Minnesota
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sherburne County, Minnesota NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| population | over 60000 ⓘ |
| postalCodeRange | 56301–56304 ⓘ |
| region | Central Minnesota NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| riverFeature | St. Cloud Dam NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| servedByAirport | St. Cloud Regional Airport NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| servedByInterstateHighway | Interstate 94 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| servedByU.S.Highway |
U.S. Highway 10
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
U.S. Highway 15 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sportsTeam | St. Cloud Rox NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| state | Minnesota ⓘ |
| timeZone | Central Time Zone ⓘ |
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: Saint Cloud, Minnesota Description of subject: Saint Cloud, Minnesota is a central Minnesota city on the Mississippi River known historically as a regional hub for granite quarrying and higher education.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
St. Cloud, Minnesota
this entity surface form:
St. Cloud, Minnesota