Ransom
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Ransom is a small village located in LaSalle County, Illinois, in the United States.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ransom canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10186973 — 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: Ransom Context triple: [Ransom, Illinois, hasName, Ransom]
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A.
Ransom
Ransom is a 1996 American thriller film directed by Ron Howard and starring Mel Gibson, centered on a wealthy father's desperate attempt to rescue his kidnapped son.
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B.
Ransom 2
Ransom 2 is a studio album by American record producer Mike Will Made-It, featuring a wide range of prominent hip-hop and R&B artists.
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C.
The Kidnappers
The Kidnappers is a 1953 British family drama film set in early 20th-century Nova Scotia, following two young brothers who "adopt" a missing baby they find while searching for a dog.
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D.
The Rip
The Rip is a notoriously narrow and treacherous entrance channel between Port Phillip Bay and Bass Strait in Victoria, Australia, known for its strong tidal currents and hazardous navigation conditions.
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E.
The Criminals
The Criminals is a punk rock band known for featuring guitarist Jason White, who later gained prominence with Green Day.
- 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: Ransom Target entity description: Ransom is a small village located in LaSalle County, Illinois, in the United States.
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A.
Ransom
Ransom is a 1996 American thriller film directed by Ron Howard and starring Mel Gibson, centered on a wealthy father's desperate attempt to rescue his kidnapped son.
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B.
Ransom 2
Ransom 2 is a studio album by American record producer Mike Will Made-It, featuring a wide range of prominent hip-hop and R&B artists.
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C.
The Kidnappers
The Kidnappers is a 1953 British family drama film set in early 20th-century Nova Scotia, following two young brothers who "adopt" a missing baby they find while searching for a dog.
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D.
The Rip
The Rip is a notoriously narrow and treacherous entrance channel between Port Phillip Bay and Bass Strait in Victoria, Australia, known for its strong tidal currents and hazardous navigation conditions.
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E.
The Criminals
The Criminals is a punk rock band known for featuring guitarist Jason White, who later gained prominence with Green Day.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | village ⓘ |
| areaCode |
779
ⓘ
815 ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| countrySubdivision | Midwestern United States ⓘ |
| county | LaSalle County ⓘ |
| governmentType | village board ⓘ |
| hasClimate | humid continental climate ⓘ |
| hasLanguage | English ⓘ |
| hasSettlementType | rural community ⓘ |
| isInCountrySubdivision | LaSalle County, Illinois ⓘ |
| isInNorthernHemisphere | true ⓘ |
| isInRegion | north-central Illinois ⓘ |
| isInWesternHemisphere | true ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Illinois
ⓘ
LaSalle County, Illinois ⓘ United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| partOf |
Ottawa, IL Micropolitan Statistical Area
ⓘ
linked to:
Ottawa–Peru, Illinois micropolitan area
|
| postalCodeType | ZIP code ⓘ |
| roadAccess |
Illinois state and county highways
ⓘ
linked to:
Illinois state highway system
|
| state | Illinois ⓘ |
| timeZone | Central Time Zone ⓘ |
| timeZoneDST |
Central Daylight Time
ⓘ
linked to:
Central Time Zone
|
| usesCurrency |
United States dollar
ⓘ
linked to:
US dollar
|
| UTCOffset | −6 ⓘ |
| UTCOffsetDST | −5 ⓘ |
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: Ransom Description of subject: Ransom is a small village located in LaSalle County, Illinois, in the United States.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.