Jasper, Alabama
E175411
Jasper, Alabama is a small city in Walker County that serves as a regional hub in north-central Alabama.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jasper, Alabama canonical | 13 |
| Jasper, Alabama, United States | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1035403 — 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: Jasper, Alabama Context triple: [William B. Bankhead, practicedLawIn, Jasper, Alabama]
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A.
Vincent, Alabama
Vincent, Alabama is a small town in central Alabama known for its rural character and location within the Birmingham–Hoover metropolitan area.
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B.
Helena, Alabama
Helena, Alabama is a suburban city in central Alabama known for its family-friendly neighborhoods, strong schools, and proximity to Birmingham.
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C.
Kingston, Alabama
Kingston, Alabama is an unincorporated rural community located in Shelby County in the central part of the state.
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D.
Alabaster, Alabama
Alabaster, Alabama is a rapidly growing suburban city in central Alabama known for its residential communities, schools, and retail centers just south of Birmingham.
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E.
Fairfield, Alabama
Fairfield, Alabama is a small city in Jefferson County that functions as a residential and industrial suburb of Birmingham within central Alabama.
- 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: Jasper, Alabama Target entity description: Jasper, Alabama is a small city in Walker County that serves as a regional hub in north-central Alabama.
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A.
Vincent, Alabama
Vincent, Alabama is a small town in central Alabama known for its rural character and location within the Birmingham–Hoover metropolitan area.
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B.
Helena, Alabama
Helena, Alabama is a suburban city in central Alabama known for its family-friendly neighborhoods, strong schools, and proximity to Birmingham.
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C.
Kingston, Alabama
Kingston, Alabama is an unincorporated rural community located in Shelby County in the central part of the state.
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D.
Alabaster, Alabama
Alabaster, Alabama is a rapidly growing suburban city in central Alabama known for its residential communities, schools, and retail centers just south of Birmingham.
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E.
Fairfield, Alabama
Fairfield, Alabama is a small city in Jefferson County that functions as a residential and industrial suburb of Birmingham within central Alabama.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
city
ⓘ
county seat ⓘ |
| areaCode |
205
ⓘ
659 ⓘ |
| averageSummerCondition | hot and humid summers ⓘ |
| averageWinterCondition | mild winters ⓘ |
| climate | humid subtropical climate ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| county | Walker County, Alabama NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countyGovernmentLocation | Walker County Courthouse ⓘ |
| distanceTo | about 40 miles northwest of Birmingham, Alabama ⓘ |
| elevation | approximately 500 feet ⓘ |
| FIPSCode | 01-38256 ⓘ |
| GNISFeatureID | 0151874 ⓘ |
| governmentType | mayor–council government ⓘ |
| hasEducationalInstitution | Bevill State Community College Jasper Campus ⓘ |
| hasFacility | Walker Baptist Medical Center ⓘ |
| hasHighSchool | Jasper High School ⓘ |
| hasHistoricIndustry |
coal mining
ⓘ
railroad commerce ⓘ timber ⓘ |
| isCountySeatOf | Walker County, Alabama NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInMetropolitanArea |
Birmingham–Hoover metropolitan area
ⓘ
surface form:
Birmingham–Hoover–Cullman combined statistical area
|
| locatedInPhysiographicRegion | Appalachian Plateau ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | north-central Alabama ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Bankhead Lake
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Lewis Smith Lake NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| majorHighway |
Alabama State Route 5
ⓘ
Alabama State Route 69 ⓘ Interstate 22 NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 78 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedAfter | William Jasper ⓘ |
| postalCode |
35501
ⓘ
35502 ⓘ 35503 ⓘ |
| primaryEconomicRole | regional service center ⓘ |
| primaryEconomicSector |
coal mining region support
ⓘ
healthcare services ⓘ retail trade ⓘ |
| region | northwest Alabama coalfield ⓘ |
| role | regional hub ⓘ |
| state | Alabama ⓘ |
| 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: Jasper, Alabama Description of subject: Jasper, Alabama is a small city in Walker County that serves as a regional hub in north-central Alabama.
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
William Brockman Bankhead House
subject surface form:
Walker County, Alabama
subject surface form:
Walker County, Alabama
subject surface form:
Walker County, Alabama
this entity surface form:
Jasper, Alabama, United States