Marne, Iowa
E157617
Marne, Iowa is a small rural city located in western Iowa within Shelby County.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Marne, Iowa canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1385821 — 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: Marne, Iowa Context triple: [Shelby County, Iowa, hasCity, Marne, Iowa]
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A.
Marne, Iowa
Marne, Iowa is a small rural city located in Cass County in southwestern Iowa, known for its agricultural surroundings and tight-knit community.
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B.
Le Mars, Iowa
Le Mars, Iowa is a small northwestern Iowa city best known as the "Ice Cream Capital of the World" and home to the Blue Bunny ice cream brand.
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C.
McClelland, Iowa
McClelland, Iowa is a small rural community located in Pottawattamie County in the western part of the state.
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D.
Waterloo, Iowa
Waterloo, Iowa is a mid-sized city in northeastern Iowa known as an industrial and commercial hub of the Cedar Valley region along the Cedar River.
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E.
Lowden, Iowa
Lowden, Iowa is a small rural city in eastern Iowa known for its agricultural surroundings and tight-knit community.
- 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: Marne, Iowa Target entity description: Marne, Iowa is a small rural city located in western Iowa within Shelby County.
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A.
Marne, Iowa
Marne, Iowa is a small rural city located in Cass County in southwestern Iowa, known for its agricultural surroundings and tight-knit community.
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B.
Le Mars, Iowa
Le Mars, Iowa is a small northwestern Iowa city best known as the "Ice Cream Capital of the World" and home to the Blue Bunny ice cream brand.
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C.
McClelland, Iowa
McClelland, Iowa is a small rural community located in Pottawattamie County in the western part of the state.
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D.
Waterloo, Iowa
Waterloo, Iowa is a mid-sized city in northeastern Iowa known as an industrial and commercial hub of the Cedar Valley region along the Cedar River.
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E.
Lowden, Iowa
Lowden, Iowa is a small rural city in eastern Iowa known for its agricultural surroundings and tight-knit community.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
city
ⓘ
municipality ⓘ |
| areaCode | 712 ⓘ |
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| countryCode | US ⓘ |
| county | Cass County ⓘ |
| GNISFeatureClass | populated place ⓘ |
| governmentType | mayor–council government ⓘ |
| hasName | Marne ⓘ |
| hasOfficialName | Marne, Iowa ⓘ |
| hasSettlementType | rural city ⓘ |
| isPartOf |
Cass County, Iowa
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Iowa ⓘ
surface form:
State of Iowa
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| language | English ⓘ |
| localGovernmentArea | Cass County ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Midwestern United States
ⓘ
western Iowa ⓘ |
| postalCode | 51552 ⓘ |
| primarySubdivision | Iowa ⓘ |
| regionType | rural ⓘ |
| state | Iowa ⓘ |
| stateCode | IA ⓘ |
| timeZone | Central Time Zone ⓘ |
| timeZoneDST |
Central Time Zone
ⓘ
surface form:
Central 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: Marne, Iowa Description of subject: Marne, Iowa is a small rural city located in western Iowa within Shelby County.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.