Tiffin, Ohio
E941231
Tiffin, Ohio is a small city in northwestern Ohio known for its historic downtown and as the home of Heidelberg University and Tiffin University.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tiffin, Ohio canonical | 6 |
| Tiffin, Ohio, United States | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10700005 — 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: Tiffin, Ohio Context triple: [Western Ohio, containsCity, Tiffin, Ohio]
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A.
Canton, Ohio
Canton, Ohio is a mid-sized city in northeastern Ohio known for its industrial heritage and as the home of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
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B.
Springfield, Ohio
Springfield, Ohio is a mid-sized city in western Ohio known historically for manufacturing and as the seat of Clark County.
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C.
Jefferson, Ohio
Jefferson, Ohio is a small village in Ashtabula County best known as the longtime home and final residence of influential 19th-century U.S. senator and Radical Republican leader Benjamin Wade.
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D.
Findlay, Ohio
Findlay, Ohio is a small city in northwestern Ohio known for its historic downtown, manufacturing base, and role as the seat of Hancock County.
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E.
Dublin, Ohio
Dublin, Ohio is a suburban city northwest of Columbus known for its affluent neighborhoods, strong school system, and annual Dublin Irish Festival.
- 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: Tiffin, Ohio Target entity description: Tiffin, Ohio is a small city in northwestern Ohio known for its historic downtown and as the home of Heidelberg University and Tiffin University.
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A.
Canton, Ohio
Canton, Ohio is a mid-sized city in northeastern Ohio known for its industrial heritage and as the home of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
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B.
Springfield, Ohio
Springfield, Ohio is a mid-sized city in western Ohio known historically for manufacturing and as the seat of Clark County.
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C.
Jefferson, Ohio
Jefferson, Ohio is a small village in Ashtabula County best known as the longtime home and final residence of influential 19th-century U.S. senator and Radical Republican leader Benjamin Wade.
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D.
Findlay, Ohio
Findlay, Ohio is a small city in northwestern Ohio known for its historic downtown, manufacturing base, and role as the seat of Hancock County.
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E.
Dublin, Ohio
Dublin, Ohio is a suburban city northwest of Columbus known for its affluent neighborhoods, strong school system, and annual Dublin Irish Festival.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (34)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
city
ⓘ
municipality ⓘ |
| areaCode |
419
ⓘ
567 ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| county | Seneca County NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| governmentType | mayor–council government ⓘ |
| hasEducationalRole | local center of higher education ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
historic architecture
ⓘ
small-city character ⓘ |
| hasHigherEducationInstitution |
Heidelberg University
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Tiffin University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasHistoricDistrict | downtown Tiffin historic district NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasHistoricRole | historic county seat in Ohio ⓘ |
| hasRiver | Sandusky River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasUniversity |
Heidelberg University
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Tiffin University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| incorporationStatus | city ⓘ |
| isCountySeatOf | Seneca County, Ohio NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Heidelberg University
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Tiffin University NERFINISHED ⓘ historic downtown ⓘ |
| locatedIn | northwestern Ohio ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | Midwestern United States ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Eastern Time Zone ⓘ |
| locatedOnWaterway | Sandusky River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
Edward Tiffin
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
first governor of Ohio ⓘ |
| partOf |
Ohio
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Seneca County, Ohio NERFINISHED ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| postalCode | 44883 ⓘ |
| state | Ohio ⓘ |
| timeZoneDST |
Eastern Time Zone
ⓘ
surface form:
Eastern 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: Tiffin, Ohio Description of subject: Tiffin, Ohio is a small city in northwestern Ohio known for its historic downtown and as the home of Heidelberg University and Tiffin University.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Western Ohio
subject surface form:
Jay Gruden
this entity surface form:
Tiffin, Ohio, United States
this entity surface form:
Tiffin, Ohio, United States