Algona, Iowa
E1025130
Algona, Iowa is a small city in north-central Iowa that serves as the county seat of Kossuth County and a regional hub for agriculture and local commerce.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Algona, Iowa canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13173886 — 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: Algona, Iowa Context triple: [Three Rivers Trail (Iowa), passesNearCommunity, Algona, Iowa]
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A.
Onawa, Iowa
Onawa, Iowa is a small city in western Iowa known for its historic downtown and proximity to the Missouri River.
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B.
Ogden, Iowa
Ogden, Iowa is a small rural city in Boone County known for its agricultural surroundings and location within central Iowa.
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C.
Hancock, Iowa
Hancock, Iowa is a small rural city located in western Iowa within Pottawattamie County.
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D.
Lawton, Iowa
Lawton, Iowa is a small city in northwestern Iowa that functions largely as a residential community near the larger urban center of Sioux City.
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E.
Forest City, Iowa
Forest City, Iowa is a small northern Iowa community known as the longtime home of Winnebago Industries and a gateway to nearby lakes and outdoor recreation.
- 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: Algona, Iowa Target entity description: Algona, Iowa is a small city in north-central Iowa that serves as the county seat of Kossuth County and a regional hub for agriculture and local commerce.
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A.
Onawa, Iowa
Onawa, Iowa is a small city in western Iowa known for its historic downtown and proximity to the Missouri River.
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B.
Ogden, Iowa
Ogden, Iowa is a small rural city in Boone County known for its agricultural surroundings and location within central Iowa.
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C.
Hancock, Iowa
Hancock, Iowa is a small rural city located in western Iowa within Pottawattamie County.
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D.
Lawton, Iowa
Lawton, Iowa is a small city in northwestern Iowa that functions largely as a residential community near the larger urban center of Sioux City.
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E.
Forest City, Iowa
Forest City, Iowa is a small northern Iowa community known as the longtime home of Winnebago Industries and a gateway to nearby lakes and outdoor recreation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
city
ⓘ
county seat ⓘ |
| areaCode | 515 ⓘ |
| climate | humid continental climate ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| county | Kossuth County, Iowa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| courthouseFor | Kossuth County, Iowa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| function |
regional hub for agriculture
ⓘ
regional hub for local commerce ⓘ |
| GNISFeatureID | 0454245 ⓘ |
| governingBody | Algona City Council NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| governmentType | mayor–council government ⓘ |
| hasAirport | Algona Municipal Airport NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAttraction | World War II POW Nativity Scene NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasEducationalInstitution | Algona Community School District NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasEvent | Kossuth County Fair NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasHighSchool | Algona High School NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasHistoricDistrict | Algona Downtown Historic District NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasHistoricSite | Kossuth County Courthouse NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasHospital | Kossuth Regional Health Center NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLibrary | Algona Public Library NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMuseum | Camp Algona POW Museum NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNewspaper | Algona Upper Des Moines NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPark | Ambrose A. Call State Park NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasReligiousSchool | Bishop Garrigan High School NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTransportation |
Iowa Highway 18
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
U.S. Route 169 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isPartOf | Kossuth County micropolitan area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Midwestern United States ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Central Time Zone ⓘ |
| locatedOnRiver | East Fork Des Moines River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Algonquian people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| near | Ambrose A. Call State Park NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| postalCode | 50511 ⓘ |
| primaryEconomicSector |
agricultural services
ⓘ
agriculture ⓘ retail trade ⓘ |
| region | north-central Iowa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| role | county seat of Kossuth County, Iowa ⓘ |
| servedBy |
Iowa Northern Railway
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Union Pacific Railroad NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| state | Iowa ⓘ |
| timeZoneDST |
Central Time Zone
ⓘ
surface form:
Central Daylight Time
|
| timeZoneStandard |
Central Time Zone
ⓘ
surface form:
Central Standard 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: Algona, Iowa Description of subject: Algona, Iowa is a small city in north-central Iowa that serves as the county seat of Kossuth County and a regional hub for agriculture and local commerce.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.