MN
E874141
MN is the standard two-letter postal abbreviation for the U.S. state of Minnesota.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| MN canonical | 18 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10605372 — 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: MN Context triple: [Lyle, Minnesota, stateAbbreviation, MN]
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A.
MN
MN was the official abbreviation for the Hungarian People’s Army, the armed forces of the Hungarian People's Republic during the socialist era.
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B.
MN
MN is the vehicle registration code used on license plates for vehicles registered in Douglas and the rest of the Isle of Man.
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C.
NM
NM is the standard two-letter U.S. postal abbreviation for the state of New Mexico.
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D.
Minnesota
Minnesota is an American hip hop record producer known for his work with prominent rap artists in the 1990s and 2000s.
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E.
Minnesota
Minnesota is an American electronic music producer and DJ known for his melodic, bass-heavy dubstep and festival performances.
- 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: MN Target entity description: MN is the standard two-letter postal abbreviation for the U.S. state of Minnesota.
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A.
MN
MN is the vehicle registration code used on license plates for vehicles registered in Douglas and the rest of the Isle of Man.
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B.
MN
MN was the official abbreviation for the Hungarian People’s Army, the armed forces of the Hungarian People's Republic during the socialist era.
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C.
NM
NM is the standard two-letter U.S. postal abbreviation for the state of New Mexico.
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D.
Minnesota
Minnesota is an American hip hop record producer known for his work with prominent rap artists in the 1990s and 2000s.
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E.
Minnesota
Minnesota is an American electronic music producer and DJ known for his melodic, bass-heavy dubstep and festival performances.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | postal abbreviation ⓘ |
| appliesTo |
Minnesota
ⓘ
U.S. state ⓘ |
| associatedCapital | Saint Paul ⓘ |
| associatedCountrySubdivisionCode | US-MN ⓘ |
| associatedLargestCity | Minneapolis ⓘ |
| associatedTimeZone |
Central Time Zone
ⓘ
Mountain Time Zone ⓘ |
| codeType | USPS state abbreviation ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| distinctFrom |
MI
ⓘ
MO ⓘ MS ⓘ |
| format | two-letter code ⓘ |
| introducedFor | state-based addressing ⓘ |
| isUppercase | true ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| letter1 | M ⓘ |
| letter2 | N ⓘ |
| regionType | state ⓘ |
| represents | Minnesota ⓘ |
| standardizedBy | United States Postal Service ⓘ |
| usedBy | United States Postal Service ⓘ |
| usedIn |
address databases
ⓘ
geocoding systems ⓘ government forms ⓘ mailing addresses ⓘ postal services ⓘ shipping labels ⓘ |
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: MN Description of subject: MN is the standard two-letter postal abbreviation for the U.S. state of Minnesota.
Referenced by (18)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.