Des Moines County, Iowa
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Des Moines County, Iowa is a county in southeastern Iowa along the Mississippi River, best known for its county seat and largest city, Burlington.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Des Moines County, Iowa canonical | 13 |
| Des Moines County | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T908777 — 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: Des Moines County, Iowa Context triple: [Burlington, Iowa, United States, locatedIn, Des Moines County, Iowa]
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Marion County, Iowa
Marion County, Iowa is a county in south-central Iowa known for its Dutch heritage in the city of Pella and its mix of agricultural and small-town communities.
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B.
Dickinson County, Iowa
Dickinson County, Iowa is a county in the northwestern part of the state known for its Iowa Great Lakes region, including popular vacation destination Spirit Lake and the city of Okoboji.
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C.
Linn County, Iowa
Linn County, Iowa is a populous county in eastern Iowa whose seat is Cedar Rapids, one of the state's largest cities and a major economic and cultural center.
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Washington County, Iowa
Washington County, Iowa is a predominantly rural county in southeastern Iowa known for its agricultural economy and small communities such as its county seat, Washington.
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E.
Polk County, Iowa
Polk County, Iowa is a central Iowa county that includes the state capital, Des Moines, and serves as the most populous and economically significant county in the state.
- 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: Des Moines County, Iowa Target entity description: Des Moines County, Iowa is a county in southeastern Iowa along the Mississippi River, best known for its county seat and largest city, Burlington.
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A.
Marion County, Iowa
Marion County, Iowa is a county in south-central Iowa known for its Dutch heritage in the city of Pella and its mix of agricultural and small-town communities.
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B.
Dickinson County, Iowa
Dickinson County, Iowa is a county in the northwestern part of the state known for its Iowa Great Lakes region, including popular vacation destination Spirit Lake and the city of Okoboji.
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C.
Linn County, Iowa
Linn County, Iowa is a populous county in eastern Iowa whose seat is Cedar Rapids, one of the state's largest cities and a major economic and cultural center.
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D.
Washington County, Iowa
Washington County, Iowa is a predominantly rural county in southeastern Iowa known for its agricultural economy and small communities such as its county seat, Washington.
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E.
Polk County, Iowa
Polk County, Iowa is a central Iowa county that includes the state capital, Des Moines, and serves as the most populous and economically significant county in the state.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
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: Des Moines County, Iowa Description of subject: Des Moines County, Iowa is a county in southeastern Iowa along the Mississippi River, best known for its county seat and largest city, Burlington.
Referenced by (15)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Des Moines County
Aspen Grove Cemetery, Burlington, Iowa, United States
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locatedInAdministrativeTerritory
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Des Moines County, Iowa
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subject surface form:
Aspen Grove Cemetery
Downtown Burlington Historic District
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locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity
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Des Moines County, Iowa
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Des Moines County Heritage Center Museum
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locatedInAdministrativeEntity
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Des Moines County, Iowa
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this entity surface form:
Des Moines County