Stearns County
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Stearns County is a county in central Minnesota known for its mix of rural communities, lakes, and the presence of institutions like the College of Saint Benedict and Saint John’s University.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Stearns County canonical | 1 |
| Stearns County, Minnesota | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8671307 — 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: Stearns County Context triple: [St. John’s Abbey Church in Collegeville, county, Stearns County]
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A.
Isanti County, Minnesota
Isanti County, Minnesota is a largely rural county in east-central Minnesota known for its small communities, agricultural landscape, and proximity to the northern edge of the Twin Cities metropolitan area.
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B.
Roseau County
Roseau County is a rural county in northwestern Minnesota known for its agriculture, forests, and proximity to the Canadian border.
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C.
Wright County
Wright County is a county in central Minnesota known for its mix of growing suburban communities and rural landscapes west of the Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan area.
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D.
Sherburne County, Minnesota
Sherburne County, Minnesota is a central Minnesota county along the Mississippi River that forms part of the outer suburban area of the Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan region.
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E.
Dakota County
Dakota County is a county in northeastern Nebraska known for including the city of South Sioux City and forming part of the Sioux City metropolitan area.
- 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: Stearns County Target entity description: Stearns County is a county in central Minnesota known for its mix of rural communities, lakes, and the presence of institutions like the College of Saint Benedict and Saint John’s University.
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A.
Isanti County, Minnesota
Isanti County, Minnesota is a largely rural county in east-central Minnesota known for its small communities, agricultural landscape, and proximity to the northern edge of the Twin Cities metropolitan area.
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B.
Roseau County
Roseau County is a rural county in northwestern Minnesota known for its agriculture, forests, and proximity to the Canadian border.
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C.
Wright County
Wright County is a county in central Minnesota known for its mix of growing suburban communities and rural landscapes west of the Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan area.
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D.
Sherburne County, Minnesota
Sherburne County, Minnesota is a central Minnesota county along the Mississippi River that forms part of the outer suburban area of the Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan region.
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E.
Dakota County
Dakota County is a county in northeastern Nebraska known for including the city of South Sioux City and forming part of the Sioux City metropolitan area.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (61)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
administrative territorial entity
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county ⓘ |
| borderedBy |
Benton County, Minnesota
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Douglas County, Minnesota NERFINISHED ⓘ Kandiyohi County, Minnesota NERFINISHED ⓘ Meeker County, Minnesota NERFINISHED ⓘ Morrison County, Minnesota NERFINISHED ⓘ Pope County, Minnesota NERFINISHED ⓘ Sherburne County, Minnesota NERFINISHED ⓘ Todd County, Minnesota NERFINISHED ⓘ Wright County, Minnesota NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| containsBodyOfWater |
Big Birch Lake
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Big Fish Lake NERFINISHED ⓘ Big Spunk Lake NERFINISHED ⓘ Kraemer Lake NERFINISHED ⓘ Little Spunk Lake NERFINISHED ⓘ Middle Spunk Lake NERFINISHED ⓘ Mississippi River NERFINISHED ⓘ Sauk River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| containsSettlement |
Albany, Minnesota
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Avon, Minnesota NERFINISHED ⓘ Cold Spring, Minnesota NERFINISHED ⓘ Eden Valley, Minnesota NERFINISHED ⓘ Freeport, Minnesota NERFINISHED ⓘ Holdingford, Minnesota NERFINISHED ⓘ Kimball, Minnesota NERFINISHED ⓘ Melrose, Minnesota NERFINISHED ⓘ New Munich, Minnesota NERFINISHED ⓘ Paynesville, Minnesota NERFINISHED ⓘ Richmond, Minnesota NERFINISHED ⓘ Rockville, Minnesota NERFINISHED ⓘ Sauk Centre, Minnesota NERFINISHED ⓘ St. Anthony, Minnesota NERFINISHED ⓘ St. Augusta, Minnesota NERFINISHED ⓘ St. Cloud, Minnesota NERFINISHED ⓘ St. Joseph, Minnesota NERFINISHED ⓘ St. Martin, Minnesota NERFINISHED ⓘ St. Rosa, Minnesota NERFINISHED ⓘ St. Stephen, Minnesota NERFINISHED ⓘ St. Wendel Township, Minnesota NERFINISHED ⓘ Waite Park, Minnesota NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| countySeat | St. Cloud, Minnesota NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasEducationalInstitution |
College of Saint Benedict
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Saint John’s Preparatory School NERFINISHED ⓘ Saint John’s University NERFINISHED ⓘ St. Cloud State University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRegionCode | US-MN ⓘ |
| knownFor |
mix of rural communities and lakes
ⓘ
presence of the College of Saint Benedict and Saint John’s University ⓘ |
| largestCity | St. Cloud, Minnesota NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Minnesota
ⓘ
United States Midwest ⓘ central Minnesota ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Charles Thomas Stearns NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | State of Minnesota NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| state | Minnesota ⓘ |
| subdivisionType | county ⓘ |
| timeZone |
Central Time Zone
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surface form:
Central Daylight Time
Central Time Zone ⓘ
surface form:
Central Standard Time
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: Stearns County Description of subject: Stearns County is a county in central Minnesota known for its mix of rural communities, lakes, and the presence of institutions like the College of Saint Benedict and Saint John’s University.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Stearns County, Minnesota