Columbia County, Wisconsin
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Columbia County, Wisconsin is a centrally located county in the state known for its mix of agricultural land, small communities, and transportation routes connecting it to major Wisconsin cities.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Columbia County, Wisconsin canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8337284 — 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: Columbia County, Wisconsin Context triple: [Wisconsin Highway 23, passesThroughCounty, Columbia County, Wisconsin]
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A.
Douglas County, Wisconsin
Douglas County, Wisconsin is a county in the northwestern part of the state along Lake Superior, known for its county seat of Superior and its mix of industrial, port, and forested rural areas.
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B.
Washington County, Wisconsin
Washington County, Wisconsin is a county in southeastern Wisconsin known for its mix of suburban communities, rural landscapes, and outdoor recreation areas within the greater Milwaukee metropolitan region.
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C.
Crawford County, Wisconsin
Crawford County, Wisconsin is a rural county in southwestern Wisconsin along the Mississippi River, known for its historic sites like Fort Crawford and its scenic bluffs and river valleys.
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D.
Jefferson County, Wisconsin
Jefferson County, Wisconsin is a county in southeastern Wisconsin known for its mix of agricultural land, small cities, and location between Madison and Milwaukee.
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E.
Richland County, Wisconsin
Richland County, Wisconsin is a predominantly rural county in southwestern Wisconsin known for its rolling hills, agricultural landscape, and the city of Richland Center as its county seat.
- 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: Columbia County, Wisconsin Target entity description: Columbia County, Wisconsin is a centrally located county in the state known for its mix of agricultural land, small communities, and transportation routes connecting it to major Wisconsin cities.
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A.
Douglas County, Wisconsin
Douglas County, Wisconsin is a county in the northwestern part of the state along Lake Superior, known for its county seat of Superior and its mix of industrial, port, and forested rural areas.
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B.
Washington County, Wisconsin
Washington County, Wisconsin is a county in southeastern Wisconsin known for its mix of suburban communities, rural landscapes, and outdoor recreation areas within the greater Milwaukee metropolitan region.
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C.
Crawford County, Wisconsin
Crawford County, Wisconsin is a rural county in southwestern Wisconsin along the Mississippi River, known for its historic sites like Fort Crawford and its scenic bluffs and river valleys.
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D.
Jefferson County, Wisconsin
Jefferson County, Wisconsin is a county in southeastern Wisconsin known for its mix of agricultural land, small cities, and location between Madison and Milwaukee.
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E.
Richland County, Wisconsin
Richland County, Wisconsin is a predominantly rural county in southwestern Wisconsin known for its rolling hills, agricultural landscape, and the city of Richland Center as its county seat.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (67)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
administrative territorial entity
ⓘ
county ⓘ |
| borderedBy |
Dane County, Wisconsin
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Dodge County, Wisconsin NERFINISHED ⓘ Green Lake County, Wisconsin NERFINISHED ⓘ Juneau County, Wisconsin NERFINISHED ⓘ Marquette County, Wisconsin NERFINISHED ⓘ Sauk County, Wisconsin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| contains | Portage Municipal Airport NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| countySeat | Portage, Wisconsin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| crossedBy |
Interstate 39
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Interstate 90 NERFINISHED ⓘ Interstate 94 NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 51 NERFINISHED ⓘ Wisconsin State Highway 16 NERFINISHED ⓘ Wisconsin State Highway 33 NERFINISHED ⓘ Wisconsin State Highway 60 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| economyIncludes |
agriculture
ⓘ
manufacturing ⓘ transportation services ⓘ |
| FIPSCode | 55021 ⓘ |
| GNISID | 1581154 ⓘ |
| governmentType | county government ⓘ |
| hasCity |
Columbus, Wisconsin
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Portage, Wisconsin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCourthouse | Columbia County Courthouse (Wisconsin) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLake | Lake Wisconsin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasOfficialWebsite | https://www.co.columbia.wi.us/ ⓘ |
| hasProtectedArea | Devil's Lake State Park vicinity NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRiver |
Fox River (Wisconsin)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Wisconsin River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTown |
Caledonia, Columbia County, Wisconsin
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Dekorra, Wisconsin NERFINISHED ⓘ Lewiston, Wisconsin NERFINISHED ⓘ Lodi (town), Wisconsin NERFINISHED ⓘ Lowville, Wisconsin NERFINISHED ⓘ Marcellon, Wisconsin NERFINISHED ⓘ Otsego, Wisconsin NERFINISHED ⓘ Pacific, Wisconsin NERFINISHED ⓘ Scott, Columbia County, Wisconsin NERFINISHED ⓘ Springvale, Wisconsin NERFINISHED ⓘ West Point, Wisconsin NERFINISHED ⓘ Wyocena (town), Wisconsin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasVillage |
Arlington, Wisconsin
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Cambria, Wisconsin NERFINISHED ⓘ Doylestown, Wisconsin NERFINISHED ⓘ Fall River, Wisconsin NERFINISHED ⓘ Lodi, Wisconsin NERFINISHED ⓘ Pardeeville, Wisconsin NERFINISHED ⓘ Poynette, Wisconsin NERFINISHED ⓘ Randolph, Wisconsin NERFINISHED ⓘ Rio, Wisconsin NERFINISHED ⓘ Westfield, Wisconsin NERFINISHED ⓘ Wyocena, Wisconsin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
major transportation routes connecting to Madison and other Wisconsin cities
ⓘ
mix of agricultural land and small communities ⓘ |
| largestCity | Portage, Wisconsin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| legislativeBody | Columbia County Board of Supervisors NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Midwestern United States
ⓘ
Wisconsin ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Columbia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| observesDaylightSavingTime | yes ⓘ |
| partOf |
Madison, Wisconsin metropolitan area
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Bureau of the Census ⓘ
surface form:
United States Census Bureau
|
| state | Wisconsin ⓘ |
| 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: Columbia County, Wisconsin Description of subject: Columbia County, Wisconsin is a centrally located county in the state known for its mix of agricultural land, small communities, and transportation routes connecting it to major Wisconsin cities.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.