Twin Cities Assembly Plant
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Twin Cities Assembly Plant was a Ford Motor Company manufacturing facility in St. Paul, Minnesota, best known for producing vehicles such as the Ford Ranger pickup truck before its closure in 2011.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Twin Cities Assembly Plant canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11378693 — 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: Twin Cities Assembly Plant Context triple: [Ford Ranger (first generation), assemblyLocation, Twin Cities Assembly Plant]
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A.
Belvidere Assembly Plant
Belvidere Assembly Plant is a major automobile manufacturing facility in Belvidere, Illinois, historically known for producing various Chrysler, Dodge, and Jeep vehicles.
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B.
St. Thomas Assembly Plant
St. Thomas Assembly Plant was a Ford Motor Company manufacturing facility in Ontario, Canada, best known for producing full-size rear-wheel-drive sedans such as the Lincoln Town Car and Ford Crown Victoria.
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C.
Kansas City Assembly Plant
Kansas City Assembly Plant is a major Ford Motor Company manufacturing facility in Claycomo, Missouri, known for producing various Ford vehicles and serving as one of the company’s largest and most important assembly plants in North America.
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D.
St. Louis Assembly Plant
The St. Louis Assembly Plant was a General Motors automobile factory in St. Louis, Missouri, best known for producing Chevrolet Corvettes for several decades before Corvette production moved to Bowling Green, Kentucky.
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E.
Flat Rock Assembly Plant
Flat Rock Assembly Plant is a Ford Motor Company automotive manufacturing facility in Flat Rock, Michigan, known for producing various Ford and Lincoln vehicles.
- 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: Twin Cities Assembly Plant Target entity description: Twin Cities Assembly Plant was a Ford Motor Company manufacturing facility in St. Paul, Minnesota, best known for producing vehicles such as the Ford Ranger pickup truck before its closure in 2011.
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A.
Belvidere Assembly Plant
Belvidere Assembly Plant is a major automobile manufacturing facility in Belvidere, Illinois, historically known for producing various Chrysler, Dodge, and Jeep vehicles.
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B.
St. Thomas Assembly Plant
St. Thomas Assembly Plant was a Ford Motor Company manufacturing facility in Ontario, Canada, best known for producing full-size rear-wheel-drive sedans such as the Lincoln Town Car and Ford Crown Victoria.
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C.
Kansas City Assembly Plant
Kansas City Assembly Plant is a major Ford Motor Company manufacturing facility in Claycomo, Missouri, known for producing various Ford vehicles and serving as one of the company’s largest and most important assembly plants in North America.
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D.
St. Louis Assembly Plant
The St. Louis Assembly Plant was a General Motors automobile factory in St. Louis, Missouri, best known for producing Chevrolet Corvettes for several decades before Corvette production moved to Bowling Green, Kentucky.
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E.
Flat Rock Assembly Plant
Flat Rock Assembly Plant is a Ford Motor Company automotive manufacturing facility in Flat Rock, Michigan, known for producing various Ford and Lincoln vehicles.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Ford Motor Company facility
ⓘ
automobile factory ⓘ |
| adjacentTo |
Ford Parkway Bridge
ⓘ
Lock and Dam No. 1 ⓘ |
| architect | Albert Kahn ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | industrial architecture ⓘ |
| city | Saint Paul ⓘ |
| closingDate | 2011 ⓘ |
| constructionStartDate | 1924 ⓘ |
| coordinateLocation | 44.918°N 93.205°W ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| demolitionDate | 2013 ⓘ |
| dissolvedOrAbolished | 2011 ⓘ |
| floorCount | 1 ⓘ |
| formerUse | automobile assembly ⓘ |
| inception | 1925 ⓘ |
| industry | automotive manufacturing ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeEntity | Ramsey County, Minnesota ⓘ |
| locatedInNeighborhood | Highland Park, St. Paul ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Mississippi River ⓘ |
| location |
St. Paul, Minnesota
ⓘ
linked to:
Saint Paul
|
| notableFor |
longest continuously operating Ford plant in the United States at time of closure
ⓘ
production of Ford Ranger pickup trucks ⓘ |
| numberOfEmployees |
approximately 1,800
ⓘ
approximately 1,800 at closure ⓘ |
| operator | Ford Motor Company ⓘ |
| ownedBy | Ford Motor Company ⓘ |
| ownedSiteArea | approximately 122-acre riverfront site ⓘ |
| partOf |
Ford Motor Company North American manufacturing network
ⓘ
linked to:
Ford North American manufacturing network
|
| peakAnnualProduction | over 200,000 vehicles per year (approximate) ⓘ |
| powerSupply | hydroelectric power from Mississippi River ⓘ |
| primaryModelAtClosure | Ford Ranger ⓘ |
| product |
Ford Galaxie
ⓘ
Ford LTD ⓘ Ford Model A ⓘ
linked to:
Ford Model A (1927)
Ford Model T ⓘ Ford Ranger ⓘ Ford Ranger (North American market) ⓘ
linked to:
Ford Ranger
Ford Taurus ⓘ Ford pickup trucks ⓘ
linked to:
Ford F-Series
|
| productionEnd | December 2011 ⓘ |
| reasonForDissolution | plant closure by Ford Motor Company ⓘ |
| region | Midwestern United States ⓘ |
| siteArea | approximately 122 acres ⓘ |
| state | Minnesota ⓘ |
| status | demolished ⓘ |
| successor | Highland Bridge redevelopment project ⓘ |
| transportInfrastructure |
barge access on Mississippi River
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rail spur connection ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Twin Cities Assembly Plant Description of subject: Twin Cities Assembly Plant was a Ford Motor Company manufacturing facility in St. Paul, Minnesota, best known for producing vehicles such as the Ford Ranger pickup truck before its closure in 2011.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.