Sheridan Township, Michigan
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Sheridan Township, Michigan is a small rural civil township located within Mecosta County in the U.S. state of Michigan.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sheridan Township, Michigan canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8525216 — 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: Sheridan Township, Michigan Context triple: [Mecosta County, Michigan, hasTownship, Sheridan Township, Michigan]
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A.
Sheridan, Michigan
Sheridan, Michigan is a small rural village located in Montcalm County in the central Lower Peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan.
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B.
Sherman Township, Michigan
Sherman Township, Michigan is a small civil township located in the remote, historically mining-focused Keweenaw Peninsula region of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.
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C.
Sheridan Township
Sheridan Township is a rural civil township located within Poweshiek County in the U.S. state of Iowa.
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D.
Meridian Township, Michigan
Meridian Township, Michigan is a suburban community in central Michigan, located just east of Lansing and known for its residential neighborhoods, parks, and the Meridian Mall.
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E.
Sylvan Township, Michigan
Sylvan Township, Michigan is a small rural township located in Washtenaw County in the southeastern part of the state.
- 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: Sheridan Township, Michigan Target entity description: Sheridan Township, Michigan is a small rural civil township located within Mecosta County in the U.S. state of Michigan.
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A.
Sheridan, Michigan
Sheridan, Michigan is a small rural village located in Montcalm County in the central Lower Peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan.
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B.
Sherman Township, Michigan
Sherman Township, Michigan is a small civil township located in the remote, historically mining-focused Keweenaw Peninsula region of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.
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C.
Sheridan Township
Sheridan Township is a rural civil township located within Poweshiek County in the U.S. state of Iowa.
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D.
Meridian Township, Michigan
Meridian Township, Michigan is a suburban community in central Michigan, located just east of Lansing and known for its residential neighborhoods, parks, and the Meridian Mall.
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E.
Sylvan Township, Michigan
Sylvan Township, Michigan is a small rural township located in Washtenaw County in the southeastern part of the state.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | civil township ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| countrySubdivisionType | state ⓘ |
| county | Mecosta County, Michigan ⓘ |
| governmentType | civil township ⓘ |
| hasFederalJurisdiction |
United States federal government
ⓘ
linked to:
United States government
|
| hasGovernmentJurisdiction | Mecosta County, Michigan ⓘ |
| hasStateJurisdiction | Michigan ⓘ |
| hasSubdivision | Mecosta County, Michigan ⓘ |
| hasTimezone | Eastern Time Zone ⓘ |
| isInCountry | United States of America ⓘ |
| isInCounty | Mecosta County, Michigan ⓘ |
| isInState | Michigan ⓘ |
| isRuralArea | yes ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Mecosta County, Michigan
ⓘ
Michigan ⓘ United States of America ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion |
Lower Peninsula of Michigan
ⓘ
Midwestern United States ⓘ |
| partOf | Mecosta County, Michigan ⓘ |
| rural | true ⓘ |
| settlementType | township ⓘ |
| state |
Michigan
ⓘ
linked to:
Michigan (most of state)
|
| timeZoneDST |
Eastern Daylight Time
ⓘ
linked to:
Eastern 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: Sheridan Township, Michigan Description of subject: Sheridan Township, Michigan is a small rural civil township located within Mecosta County in the U.S. state of Michigan.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.