Woodbury County, Iowa
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Woodbury County, Iowa is a county in western Iowa that includes the city of Sioux City, a major regional economic and cultural center along the Missouri River.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Woodbury County, Iowa canonical | 8 |
| Woodbury County | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1273566 — 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: Woodbury County, Iowa Context triple: [Plymouth County, Iowa, hasBorderWith, Woodbury County, Iowa]
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A.
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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B.
Sioux County, Iowa
Sioux County, Iowa is a rural county in northwestern Iowa known for its strong Dutch-American heritage and agricultural economy.
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C.
Cedar County, Iowa
Cedar County, Iowa is a predominantly rural county in eastern Iowa known for its agricultural landscape and historic communities, including the birthplace of President Herbert Hoover in West Branch.
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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.
Winneshiek County, Iowa
Winneshiek County, Iowa is a northeastern Iowa county known for its scenic Driftless Area landscape, Norwegian-American heritage, and county seat of Decorah.
- 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: Woodbury County, Iowa Target entity description: Woodbury County, Iowa is a county in western Iowa that includes the city of Sioux City, a major regional economic and cultural center along the Missouri River.
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A.
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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B.
Sioux County, Iowa
Sioux County, Iowa is a rural county in northwestern Iowa known for its strong Dutch-American heritage and agricultural economy.
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C.
Cedar County, Iowa
Cedar County, Iowa is a predominantly rural county in eastern Iowa known for its agricultural landscape and historic communities, including the birthplace of President Herbert Hoover in West Branch.
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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.
Winneshiek County, Iowa
Winneshiek County, Iowa is a northeastern Iowa county known for its scenic Driftless Area landscape, Norwegian-American heritage, and county seat of Decorah.
- 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: Woodbury County, Iowa Description of subject: Woodbury County, Iowa is a county in western Iowa that includes the city of Sioux City, a major regional economic and cultural center along the Missouri River.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Woodbury County