Crookston, Minnesota
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Crookston, Minnesota is a small city in northwestern Minnesota that serves as the county seat of Polk County and a regional center for agriculture and education.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Crookston, Minnesota canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11369615 — 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: Crookston, Minnesota Context triple: [Red Lake River, passesThrough, Crookston, Minnesota]
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A.
Crookston
Crookston is a suburban area in the south-west of Glasgow, Scotland, known for its residential character and proximity to Crookston Castle.
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B.
Moorhead, Minnesota
Moorhead, Minnesota is a city in northwestern Minnesota located along the Red River of the North, forming part of the Fargo–Moorhead metropolitan area.
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C.
Faribault, Minnesota
Faribault, Minnesota is a historic city in southern Minnesota known for its manufacturing heritage, diverse community, and proximity to the Cannon and Straight Rivers.
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D.
Stillwater, Minnesota
Stillwater, Minnesota is a historic city on the St. Croix River known as one of the oldest towns in the state and a popular tourist destination for its preserved downtown and scenic riverfront.
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E.
Crosby, Minnesota
Crosby, Minnesota is a small city in central Minnesota known for its mining history and access to outdoor recreation in the Cuyuna Lakes region.
- 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: Crookston, Minnesota Target entity description: Crookston, Minnesota is a small city in northwestern Minnesota that serves as the county seat of Polk County and a regional center for agriculture and education.
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A.
Crookston
Crookston is a suburban area in the south-west of Glasgow, Scotland, known for its residential character and proximity to Crookston Castle.
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B.
Moorhead, Minnesota
Moorhead, Minnesota is a city in northwestern Minnesota located along the Red River of the North, forming part of the Fargo–Moorhead metropolitan area.
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C.
Faribault, Minnesota
Faribault, Minnesota is a historic city in southern Minnesota known for its manufacturing heritage, diverse community, and proximity to the Cannon and Straight Rivers.
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D.
Stillwater, Minnesota
Stillwater, Minnesota is a historic city on the St. Croix River known as one of the oldest towns in the state and a popular tourist destination for its preserved downtown and scenic riverfront.
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E.
Crosby, Minnesota
Crosby, Minnesota is a small city in central Minnesota known for its mining history and access to outdoor recreation in the Cuyuna Lakes region.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | city ⓘ |
| areaCode | 218 ⓘ |
| averageJanuaryTemperature | well below freezing ⓘ |
| averageJulyTemperature | warm but not hot ⓘ |
| climateClassificationKöppen | Dfb ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| countySeatOf | Polk County, Minnesota NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distanceToGrandForksND | about 25 miles east GENERATED ⓘ |
| economyBasedOn |
agriculture
ⓘ
education ⓘ regional services ⓘ |
| elevationAboveSeaLevel |
approximately 266 meters
ⓘ
approximately 873 feet ⓘ |
| FIPSCode | 27-13780 ⓘ |
| GNISFeatureID | 0642440 ⓘ |
| hasAirport | Crookston Municipal Airport – Kirkwood Field NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasClimate | humid continental climate ⓘ |
| hasHigherEducationInstitution | University of Minnesota Crookston NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasHospital | RiverView Health (regional medical center) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLocalGovernmentType | mayor–council government ⓘ |
| hasNotableEvent | Ox Cart Days festival NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPublicSchoolDistrict | Crookston Public Schools (ISD 593) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRailServiceHistory |
Great Northern Railway
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Northern Pacific Railway NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasUniversityCampus | University of Minnesota Crookston NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| incorporatedAsCity | late 19th century ⓘ |
| isCountySeat | Polk County, Minnesota NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isRegionalCenterFor |
agriculture
ⓘ
education ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeTerritorialEntity | Polk County, Minnesota NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInAgriculturalRegion | Red River Valley of the North NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | northwestern Minnesota NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Central Time Zone ⓘ |
| locatedOnRiver | Red Lake River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Valley of the Crookston in Scotland (Crookston Castle area) ⓘ |
| near | Grand Forks, North Dakota NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf |
Red River Valley
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
University of Minnesota system (via U of M Crookston) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| population | approximately 7,800 (2020 census) ⓘ |
| postalCode | 56716 ⓘ |
| primaryAgriculturalProducts |
corn
ⓘ
potatoes ⓘ soybeans ⓘ sugar beets ⓘ wheat ⓘ |
| servedBy |
Minnesota State Highway 102
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Minnesota State Highway 9 NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Highway 2 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| state | Minnesota ⓘ |
| timeZoneDST |
Central Time Zone
ⓘ
surface form:
Central Daylight Time
|
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: Crookston, Minnesota Description of subject: Crookston, Minnesota is a small city in northwestern Minnesota that serves as the county seat of Polk County and a regional center for agriculture and education.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.