Williams County, North Dakota
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Williams County, North Dakota is a county in the northwestern part of the state known for its center of oil production in the Bakken formation and its county seat, Williston.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Williams County, North Dakota canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9806584 — 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: Williams County, North Dakota Context triple: [North Dakota’s at-large congressional district, includesCounty, Williams County, North Dakota]
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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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B.
Ward County, North Dakota
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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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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D.
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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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: Williams County, North Dakota Target entity description: Williams County, North Dakota is a county in the northwestern part of the state known for its center of oil production in the Bakken formation and its county seat, Williston.
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A.
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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B.
Ward County, North Dakota
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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C.
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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D.
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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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 (54)
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: Williams County, North Dakota Description of subject: Williams County, North Dakota is a county in the northwestern part of the state known for its center of oil production in the Bakken formation and its county seat, Williston.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.