National Weather Service Forecast Office Norman
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The National Weather Service Forecast Office Norman is a regional meteorological center in Norman, Oklahoma, responsible for providing weather forecasts, warnings, and climate services for central and western Oklahoma and parts of northern Texas.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| NWS Norman | 1 |
| National Weather Service Forecast Office Norman canonical | 1 |
| National Weather Service Norman Forecast Office | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1841134 — 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: National Weather Service Forecast Office Norman Context triple: [Norman, hostsInstitution, National Weather Service Forecast Office Norman]
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A.
Norman, Oklahoma, United States
Norman, Oklahoma, United States is a university city in central Oklahoma best known as the home of the University of Oklahoma and a center for education and research.
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B.
Wichita, Kansas
Wichita, Kansas is the largest city in the state of Kansas, known as a major center for the U.S. aircraft industry and situated in south-central Kansas along the Arkansas River.
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C.
Emporia, Kansas
Emporia, Kansas is a small city in east-central Kansas known as a regional hub for education, commerce, and transportation on the Great Plains.
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D.
Wichita, Kansas, United States
Wichita, Kansas, United States, is the largest city in Kansas and a major regional center for aviation manufacturing and industry.
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E.
Bartlesville
Bartlesville is a small city in northeastern Oklahoma known for its oil industry heritage and distinctive architecture, including Frank Lloyd Wright’s Price Tower.
- 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: National Weather Service Forecast Office Norman Target entity description: The National Weather Service Forecast Office Norman is a regional meteorological center in Norman, Oklahoma, responsible for providing weather forecasts, warnings, and climate services for central and western Oklahoma and parts of northern Texas.
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A.
Norman, Oklahoma, United States
Norman, Oklahoma, United States is a university city in central Oklahoma best known as the home of the University of Oklahoma and a center for education and research.
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B.
Wichita, Kansas
Wichita, Kansas is the largest city in the state of Kansas, known as a major center for the U.S. aircraft industry and situated in south-central Kansas along the Arkansas River.
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C.
Emporia, Kansas
Emporia, Kansas is a small city in east-central Kansas known as a regional hub for education, commerce, and transportation on the Great Plains.
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D.
Wichita, Kansas, United States
Wichita, Kansas, United States, is the largest city in Kansas and a major regional center for aviation manufacturing and industry.
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E.
Bartlesville
Bartlesville is a small city in northeastern Oklahoma known for its oil industry heritage and distinctive architecture, including Frank Lloyd Wright’s Price Tower.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
National Weather Service forecast office
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meteorological organization ⓘ |
| abbreviation |
National Weather Service Forecast Office Norman
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
NWS Norman
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| affiliation | National Centers for Environmental Prediction ⓘ |
| collaboratesWith |
National Severe Storms Laboratory
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Storm Prediction Center ⓘ University of Oklahoma ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| dataSource |
radar observations
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satellite observations ⓘ surface observations ⓘ upper-air soundings ⓘ |
| focus |
operational meteorology
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public safety ⓘ severe local storms ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | https://www.weather.gov/oun/ ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| locatedInFacility | National Weather Center ⓘ |
| location |
Norman, Oklahoma, United States
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surface form:
Norman, Oklahoma
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| mission |
to enhance the national economy through weather and climate services
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to protect life and property through weather forecasts and warnings ⓘ |
| NWSOfficeIdentifier | OUN ⓘ |
| operator | National Weather Service ⓘ |
| parentOrganization |
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
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U.S. Department of Commerce ⓘ |
| providesForecastFor |
Lawton, Oklahoma, United States
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surface form:
Lawton, Oklahoma
Oklahoma City metropolitan area ⓘ Wichita Falls, Texas ⓘ |
| regionServed |
central Oklahoma
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North Texas ⓘ
surface form:
northern Texas
Western Oklahoma ⓘ
surface form:
western Oklahoma
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| sector | public sector ⓘ |
| service |
aviation weather forecasts
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climate services ⓘ fire weather forecasts ⓘ hydrologic forecasts ⓘ public weather information ⓘ river and flood forecasts ⓘ severe weather warnings ⓘ weather forecasts ⓘ weather warnings ⓘ |
| state | Oklahoma ⓘ |
| usesTechnology |
Doppler weather radar
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automated surface observing systems ⓘ numerical weather prediction models ⓘ |
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: National Weather Service Forecast Office Norman Description of subject: The National Weather Service Forecast Office Norman is a regional meteorological center in Norman, Oklahoma, responsible for providing weather forecasts, warnings, and climate services for central and western Oklahoma and parts of northern Texas.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
National Weather Service Norman Forecast Office
National Weather Service Forecast Office Norman
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abbreviation
→
National Weather Service Forecast Office Norman
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
NWS Norman