Ontario–Minnesota border
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The Ontario–Minnesota border is an international boundary between the Canadian province of Ontario and the U.S. state of Minnesota, running largely through lakes, rivers, and wilderness areas in the Great Lakes region.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ontario–Minnesota border canonical | 3 |
| Minnesota–Ontario border | 2 |
| Minnesota–Ontario international border on Lake Superior | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10755979 — 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: Ontario–Minnesota border Context triple: [Pigeon River Provincial Park, borderFollows, Ontario–Minnesota border]
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A.
Manitoba–Ontario border
The Manitoba–Ontario border is the interprovincial boundary in central Canada separating the provinces of Manitoba and Ontario, running largely through boreal forest and lake country including the Lake of the Woods region.
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B.
Ontario–New York border
The Ontario–New York border is the international boundary between the Canadian province of Ontario and the U.S. state of New York, running through the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence River and encompassing major crossings such as Niagara Falls.
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C.
Ontario–Ohio border
The Ontario–Ohio border is a short international boundary in Lake Erie separating the Canadian province of Ontario from the U.S. state of Ohio.
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D.
Quebec–Ontario border
The Quebec–Ontario border is the interprovincial boundary in Canada separating the predominantly French-speaking province of Quebec from the predominantly English-speaking province of Ontario, running from the Ottawa River region northward through sparsely populated boreal and subarctic areas.
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E.
Iowa–Minnesota border
The Iowa–Minnesota border is the state line separating Iowa and Minnesota in the Midwestern United States, largely following straight survey lines with some sections defined by rivers.
- 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: Ontario–Minnesota border Target entity description: The Ontario–Minnesota border is an international boundary between the Canadian province of Ontario and the U.S. state of Minnesota, running largely through lakes, rivers, and wilderness areas in the Great Lakes region.
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A.
Manitoba–Ontario border
The Manitoba–Ontario border is the interprovincial boundary in central Canada separating the provinces of Manitoba and Ontario, running largely through boreal forest and lake country including the Lake of the Woods region.
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B.
Ontario–New York border
The Ontario–New York border is the international boundary between the Canadian province of Ontario and the U.S. state of New York, running through the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence River and encompassing major crossings such as Niagara Falls.
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C.
Ontario–Ohio border
The Ontario–Ohio border is a short international boundary in Lake Erie separating the Canadian province of Ontario from the U.S. state of Ohio.
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D.
Quebec–Ontario border
The Quebec–Ontario border is the interprovincial boundary in Canada separating the predominantly French-speaking province of Quebec from the predominantly English-speaking province of Ontario, running from the Ottawa River region northward through sparsely populated boreal and subarctic areas.
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E.
Iowa–Minnesota border
The Iowa–Minnesota border is the state line separating Iowa and Minnesota in the Midwestern United States, largely following straight survey lines with some sections defined by rivers.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: Ontario–Minnesota border Description of subject: The Ontario–Minnesota border is an international boundary between the Canadian province of Ontario and the U.S. state of Minnesota, running largely through lakes, rivers, and wilderness areas in the Great Lakes region.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Ontario–Minnesota border
subject linked to:
Lake of the Woods Conservation areas
linked to: Ontario–Minnesota border
linked to: Ontario–Minnesota border