Joplin, Missouri
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Joplin, Missouri is a city in southwestern Missouri known historically as a lead and zinc mining center and more recently for the devastating EF5 tornado that struck it in 2011.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Joplin, Missouri canonical | 35 |
| City of Joplin | 2 |
| Joplin | 2 |
| Joplin, Missouri, United States | 2 |
| Joplin, Missouri, United States of America | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1322556 — 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: Joplin, Missouri Context triple: [Jasper County, Missouri, contains, Joplin, Missouri]
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A.
Joplin, Missouri metropolitan area
The Joplin, Missouri metropolitan area is a regional urban and economic hub in southwestern Missouri and neighboring parts of Kansas, centered on the city of Joplin and its surrounding communities.
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B.
Greenwood, Missouri
Greenwood, Missouri is a small suburban city in the Kansas City metropolitan area located in Jackson County in western Missouri.
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C.
Hannibal, Missouri
Hannibal, Missouri is a historic Mississippi River town best known as Mark Twain’s boyhood home and the inspiration for the settings of "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" and "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn."
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D.
Columbia, Missouri
Columbia, Missouri is a mid-sized city in central Missouri best known as a vibrant college town home to the University of Missouri.
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E.
West Memphis, Arkansas
West Memphis, Arkansas is a small city in Crittenden County located just across the Mississippi River from Memphis, Tennessee, functioning as a key suburb and transportation hub within the greater Memphis metropolitan area.
- 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: Joplin, Missouri Target entity description: Joplin, Missouri is a city in southwestern Missouri known historically as a lead and zinc mining center and more recently for the devastating EF5 tornado that struck it in 2011.
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A.
Joplin, Missouri metropolitan area
The Joplin, Missouri metropolitan area is a regional urban and economic hub in southwestern Missouri and neighboring parts of Kansas, centered on the city of Joplin and its surrounding communities.
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B.
Greenwood, Missouri
Greenwood, Missouri is a small suburban city in the Kansas City metropolitan area located in Jackson County in western Missouri.
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C.
Hannibal, Missouri
Hannibal, Missouri is a historic Mississippi River town best known as Mark Twain’s boyhood home and the inspiration for the settings of "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" and "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn."
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D.
Columbia, Missouri
Columbia, Missouri is a mid-sized city in central Missouri best known as a vibrant college town home to the University of Missouri.
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E.
West Memphis, Arkansas
West Memphis, Arkansas is a small city in Crittenden County located just across the Mississippi River from Memphis, Tennessee, functioning as a key suburb and transportation hub within the greater Memphis metropolitan area.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Joplin, Missouri Description of subject: Joplin, Missouri is a city in southwestern Missouri known historically as a lead and zinc mining center and more recently for the devastating EF5 tornado that struck it in 2011.
Referenced by (42)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Route 66
this entity surface form:
Joplin
subject surface form:
Southwestern Missouri
this entity surface form:
City of Joplin
this entity surface form:
City of Joplin
this entity surface form:
Joplin
this entity surface form:
Joplin, Missouri, United States
subject surface form:
Diamond, Missouri
this entity surface form:
Joplin, Missouri, United States of America
this entity surface form:
Joplin, Missouri, United States