Ward County, North Dakota
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Ward County, North Dakota is a county in north-central North Dakota that includes the city of Minot, a regional economic and transportation hub.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ward County, North Dakota canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8518389 — 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: Ward County, North Dakota Context triple: [Minot, North Dakota, locatedIn, Ward County, North Dakota]
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A.
Ward County
Ward County is a sparsely populated county in western Texas known for its oil and gas production and location within the broader West Texas region.
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B.
Cass County, North Dakota
Cass County, North Dakota is a populous county in the eastern part of the state that includes the city of Fargo, a major regional economic and cultural center.
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C.
Dickey County, North Dakota
Dickey County, North Dakota is a rural county in the southeastern part of North Dakota known for its agricultural landscape and small communities near the South Dakota border.
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D.
Pennington County, South Dakota
Pennington County, South Dakota is a large county in western South Dakota that includes Rapid City and portions of the Black Hills, serving as a regional economic and cultural hub.
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E.
Burleigh County, North Dakota
Burleigh County, North Dakota is a central North Dakota county that includes the state capital city of Bismarck and serves as an important regional hub for government, education, and commerce.
- 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: Ward County, North Dakota Target entity description: Ward County, North Dakota is a county in north-central North Dakota that includes the city of Minot, a regional economic and transportation hub.
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A.
Ward County
Ward County is a sparsely populated county in western Texas known for its oil and gas production and location within the broader West Texas region.
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B.
Cass County, North Dakota
Cass County, North Dakota is a populous county in the eastern part of the state that includes the city of Fargo, a major regional economic and cultural center.
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C.
Dickey County, North Dakota
Dickey County, North Dakota is a rural county in the southeastern part of North Dakota known for its agricultural landscape and small communities near the South Dakota border.
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D.
Pennington County, South Dakota
Pennington County, South Dakota is a large county in western South Dakota that includes Rapid City and portions of the Black Hills, serving as a regional economic and cultural hub.
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E.
Burleigh County, North Dakota
Burleigh County, North Dakota is a central North Dakota county that includes the state capital city of Bismarck and serves as an important regional hub for government, education, and commerce.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
county
ⓘ
county of North Dakota ⓘ |
| borders |
Burke County, North Dakota
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
McHenry County, North Dakota NERFINISHED ⓘ McLean County, North Dakota NERFINISHED ⓘ Mountrail County, North Dakota NERFINISHED ⓘ Renville County, North Dakota NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| contains |
Berthold, North Dakota
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Burlington, North Dakota NERFINISHED ⓘ Carpio, North Dakota NERFINISHED ⓘ Des Lacs, North Dakota NERFINISHED ⓘ Donnybrook, North Dakota NERFINISHED ⓘ Douglas, North Dakota NERFINISHED ⓘ Foxholm, North Dakota NERFINISHED ⓘ Kenmare, North Dakota NERFINISHED ⓘ Logan, North Dakota NERFINISHED ⓘ Makoti, North Dakota NERFINISHED ⓘ Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota NERFINISHED ⓘ Minot, North Dakota NERFINISHED ⓘ Ryder, North Dakota NERFINISHED ⓘ Sawyer, North Dakota NERFINISHED ⓘ Surrey, North Dakota NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| countySeat | Minot, North Dakota NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| FIPSCode | 38-101 ⓘ |
| GNISID | 1038840 ⓘ |
| hasMajorAirport | Minot International Airport NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMajorHighway |
North Dakota Highway 23
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
North Dakota Highway 28 NERFINISHED ⓘ North Dakota Highway 50 NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 2 NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 52 NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 83 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMilitaryInstallation | Minot Air Force Base NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| largestCity | Minot, North Dakota NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Great Plains
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North Dakota NERFINISHED ⓘ north-central North Dakota ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Mark Ward NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf |
Minot micropolitan area
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Minot region NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| regionalRole |
regional economic hub
ⓘ
regional transportation hub ⓘ |
| seat | Minot, North Dakota NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| state | North Dakota NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subdivisionOf | United States of America NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subdivisionType | county ⓘ |
| 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: Ward County, North Dakota Description of subject: Ward County, North Dakota is a county in north-central North Dakota that includes the city of Minot, a regional economic and transportation hub.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.