Belmont, Wisconsin
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Belmont, Wisconsin is a small village historically notable as the site of the first capital of the Wisconsin Territory.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Belmont, Wisconsin canonical | 1 |
| Belmont, Wisconsin Territory | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9011002 — 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: Belmont, Wisconsin Context triple: [Wisconsin Territory, capital, Belmont, Wisconsin]
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A.
Burlington, Wisconsin
Burlington, Wisconsin is a small city in southeastern Wisconsin known for its historic downtown, chocolate festival, and location along the Fox River.
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B.
Marinette, Wisconsin
Marinette, Wisconsin is a small industrial city in northeastern Wisconsin on the shore of Green Bay, known historically for shipbuilding and its location opposite Menominee, Michigan.
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C.
Platteville, Wisconsin
Platteville, Wisconsin is a small city in southwestern Wisconsin known for the University of Wisconsin–Platteville and its strong college basketball tradition.
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D.
Waukesha, Wisconsin
Waukesha, Wisconsin is a suburban city west of Milwaukee known for its historic downtown, former mineral springs resorts, and location along the Fox River.
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E.
Oshkosh, Wisconsin
Oshkosh, Wisconsin is a city on the western shore of Lake Winnebago known for its historic manufacturing industry, the EAA AirVenture aviation festival, and its namesake OshKosh B’gosh clothing brand.
- 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: Belmont, Wisconsin Target entity description: Belmont, Wisconsin is a small village historically notable as the site of the first capital of the Wisconsin Territory.
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A.
Burlington, Wisconsin
Burlington, Wisconsin is a small city in southeastern Wisconsin known for its historic downtown, chocolate festival, and location along the Fox River.
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B.
Marinette, Wisconsin
Marinette, Wisconsin is a small industrial city in northeastern Wisconsin on the shore of Green Bay, known historically for shipbuilding and its location opposite Menominee, Michigan.
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C.
Platteville, Wisconsin
Platteville, Wisconsin is a small city in southwestern Wisconsin known for the University of Wisconsin–Platteville and its strong college basketball tradition.
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D.
Waukesha, Wisconsin
Waukesha, Wisconsin is a suburban city west of Milwaukee known for its historic downtown, former mineral springs resorts, and location along the Fox River.
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E.
Oshkosh, Wisconsin
Oshkosh, Wisconsin is a city on the western shore of Lake Winnebago known for its historic manufacturing industry, the EAA AirVenture aviation festival, and its namesake OshKosh B’gosh clothing brand.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | village ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| hasAreaCode | 608 ⓘ |
| hasClimate | humid continental climate ⓘ |
| hasFeature | Belmont Mound State Park (nearby) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasGovernmentType | village board ⓘ |
| hasHistoricalSignificance | first capital of the Wisconsin Territory ⓘ |
| hasHistoricalSite | First Capitol Historic Site NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNameOrigin | Belmont, meaning “beautiful mountain” in French NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPostalCode | 53510 ⓘ |
| hasSettlementType | rural community ⓘ |
| hasTransportationAccess |
U.S. Route 151 (nearby)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Wisconsin State Highway 81 (nearby) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isInMetropolitanArea | non-metropolitan area of southwestern Wisconsin ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Lafayette County, Wisconsin
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Midwestern United States ⓘ Wisconsin ⓘ |
| locatedInCountySeatOf | Lafayette County, Wisconsin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Central Time Zone ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Belmont Mound NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf |
Driftless Area region of Wisconsin
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
United States Census Bureau-designated places ⓘ |
| subdivisionType | village in Lafayette County ⓘ |
| UTCOffsetDaylightSavingTime | UTC−05:00 ⓘ |
| UTCOffsetStandardTime | UTC−06:00 ⓘ |
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: Belmont, Wisconsin Description of subject: Belmont, Wisconsin is a small village historically notable as the site of the first capital of the Wisconsin Territory.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Belmont, Wisconsin Territory