Missouri
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Missouri is a U.S. state in the Midwest known for its major cities like St. Louis and Kansas City, its role as a historic gateway to the American West, and its diverse mix of agricultural and industrial economies.
All labels observed (9)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Missouri canonical | 2,911 |
| State of Missouri | 161 |
| MO | 3 |
| Missouri, United States | 3 |
| Missouri (state) | 2 |
| Kansa | 1 |
| Missourians | 1 |
| U.S. state of Missouri | 1 |
| US-MO | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8880 — 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: Missouri Context triple: [Lamar, Missouri, state, Missouri]
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A.
Mississippi
Mississippi is a U.S. state in the Deep South known for the Mississippi River, its influential role in American history and culture—especially blues music—and its largely rural, agricultural landscape.
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Tennessee Valley
The Tennessee Valley is a region in the southeastern United States centered around the Tennessee River, known for its historically rural economy, flood-prone landscape, and large-scale development through New Deal-era infrastructure and power projects.
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Iowa
Iowa is a Midwestern U.S. state known for its extensive agriculture, especially corn and soybean production, and its role in national politics through the Iowa caucuses.
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D.
Nebraska
Nebraska is a landlocked U.S. state on the Great Plains known for its agriculture, prairies, and role as a historic crossroads for westward expansion.
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E.
Tennessee
Tennessee is a southeastern U.S. state known for its diverse landscapes from the Appalachian Mountains to the Mississippi River, and for major cultural centers like Nashville and Memphis that have shaped American music and history.
- 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: Missouri Target entity description: Missouri is a U.S. state in the Midwest known for its major cities like St. Louis and Kansas City, its role as a historic gateway to the American West, and its diverse mix of agricultural and industrial economies.
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A.
Mississippi
Mississippi is a U.S. state in the Deep South known for the Mississippi River, its influential role in American history and culture—especially blues music—and its largely rural, agricultural landscape.
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B.
Tennessee Valley
The Tennessee Valley is a region in the southeastern United States centered around the Tennessee River, known for its historically rural economy, flood-prone landscape, and large-scale development through New Deal-era infrastructure and power projects.
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C.
Iowa
Iowa is a Midwestern U.S. state known for its extensive agriculture, especially corn and soybean production, and its role in national politics through the Iowa caucuses.
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D.
Nebraska
Nebraska is a landlocked U.S. state on the Great Plains known for its agriculture, prairies, and role as a historic crossroads for westward expansion.
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E.
Tennessee
Tennessee is a southeastern U.S. state known for its diverse landscapes from the Appalachian Mountains to the Mississippi River, and for major cultural centers like Nashville and Memphis that have shaped American music and history.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (61)
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: Missouri Description of subject: Missouri is a U.S. state in the Midwest known for its major cities like St. Louis and Kansas City, its role as a historic gateway to the American West, and its diverse mix of agricultural and industrial economies.
Referenced by (3,084)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
State of Missouri
this entity surface form:
State of Missouri
this entity surface form:
State of Missouri
this entity surface form:
State of Missouri
Thomas Hart Benton (as senior political figure from Missouri in the Senate context)
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represented
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Missouri
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subject surface form:
Thomas Hart Benton
Thomas Hart Benton (as senior political figure from Missouri in the Senate context)
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residence
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Missouri
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subject surface form:
Thomas Hart Benton
subject surface form:
Southwestern Missouri
this entity surface form:
State of Missouri
subject surface form:
University of Missouri–Rolla
subject surface form:
Jamesport, Missouri
subject surface form:
Jamesport, Missouri
subject surface form:
Laclede, Missouri
subject surface form:
Laclede, Missouri
this entity surface form:
State of Missouri