Hastings, Iowa
E184781
Hastings, Iowa is a small rural city located in southwestern Iowa within Mills County.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Hastings, Iowa canonical | 3 |
| Henderson, Iowa | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1431420 — 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: Hastings, Iowa Context triple: [Mills County, Iowa, containsCity, Hastings, Iowa]
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A.
Hancock, Iowa
Hancock, Iowa is a small rural city located in western Iowa within Pottawattamie County.
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B.
Hartley, Iowa
Hartley, Iowa is a small rural city in northwestern Iowa known for its agricultural community and local small-town character.
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C.
Harvey, Iowa
Harvey, Iowa is a small rural city located in Marion County in the south-central part of the state.
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D.
Harlan, Iowa
Harlan, Iowa is a small city in western Iowa that serves as the county seat of Shelby County and a local hub for the surrounding rural communities.
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E.
Hastings, Nebraska
Hastings, Nebraska is a small city in south-central Nebraska known as the birthplace of Kool-Aid and for its historic downtown and railroad heritage.
- 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: Hastings, Iowa Target entity description: Hastings, Iowa is a small rural city located in southwestern Iowa within Mills County.
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A.
Hancock, Iowa
Hancock, Iowa is a small rural city located in western Iowa within Pottawattamie County.
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B.
Hartley, Iowa
Hartley, Iowa is a small rural city in northwestern Iowa known for its agricultural community and local small-town character.
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C.
Harvey, Iowa
Harvey, Iowa is a small rural city located in Marion County in the south-central part of the state.
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D.
Harlan, Iowa
Harlan, Iowa is a small city in western Iowa that serves as the county seat of Shelby County and a local hub for the surrounding rural communities.
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E.
Hastings, Nebraska
Hastings, Nebraska is a small city in south-central Nebraska known as the birthplace of Kool-Aid and for its historic downtown and railroad heritage.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
city
ⓘ
human settlement ⓘ |
| administrativeTerritorialEntity |
Iowa
ⓘ
Mills County, Iowa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| countrySubdivision |
Iowa
ⓘ
surface form:
State of Iowa
|
| county | Mills County, Iowa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasGovernmentType | city government ⓘ |
| hasName | Hastings ⓘ |
| hasOfficialName | Hastings, Iowa self-link ⓘ |
| hasRegionType | rural area ⓘ |
| hasSettlementType | city ⓘ |
| isPartOf |
Iowa
ⓘ
Midwestern United States ⓘ Mills County, Iowa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isRural | true ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Mills County, Iowa
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
Southwestern Iowa ⓘ
surface form:
southwestern Iowa
|
| locatedInTimeZone | Central Time Zone ⓘ |
| postalAddressRegion | Iowa ⓘ |
| state | Iowa ⓘ |
| timeZone |
Central Time Zone
ⓘ
surface form:
Central Daylight Time
Central Time Zone ⓘ
surface form:
Central Standard 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: Hastings, Iowa Description of subject: Hastings, Iowa is a small rural city located in southwestern Iowa within Mills County.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Henderson, Iowa