Des Moines, Iowa
E25042
Des Moines, Iowa is the capital and most populous city of Iowa, known as a major center for the U.S. insurance industry and regional finance.
All labels observed (10)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Des Moines, Iowa canonical | 141 |
| Des Moines | 53 |
| Des Moines, Iowa, United States | 15 |
| City of Des Moines | 5 |
| City of Des Moines, Iowa | 2 |
| Des Moines (city) | 1 |
| Des Moines, Iowa (state capital of Iowa) | 1 |
| Des Moines, Iowa, United States of America | 1 |
| Iowa city of Des Moines | 1 |
| downtown Des Moines | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T152231 — 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: Des Moines, Iowa Context triple: [Meredith Corporation, headquartersLocation, Des Moines, Iowa]
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A.
Iowa City, Iowa
Iowa City, Iowa is a mid-sized Midwestern city best known as the home of the University of Iowa and a UNESCO City of Literature.
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B.
Council Bluffs
Council Bluffs is a city in western Iowa, located along the Missouri River across from Omaha, Nebraska, known historically as a key railroad hub and gateway to the American West.
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C.
Omaha, Nebraska
Omaha, Nebraska is the largest city in the state of Nebraska, known as a major Midwestern economic and cultural hub situated along the Missouri River.
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D.
Cedar Falls, Iowa
Cedar Falls, Iowa is a city in northeastern Iowa known for being home to the University of Northern Iowa and a regional center for education and culture.
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E.
Orange City, Iowa
Orange City, Iowa is a small northwestern Iowa community known for its Dutch heritage, annual Tulip Festival, and role as the cultural and economic hub of Sioux County.
- 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: Des Moines, Iowa Target entity description: Des Moines, Iowa is the capital and most populous city of Iowa, known as a major center for the U.S. insurance industry and regional finance.
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A.
Iowa City, Iowa
Iowa City, Iowa is a mid-sized Midwestern city best known as the home of the University of Iowa and a UNESCO City of Literature.
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B.
Council Bluffs
Council Bluffs is a city in western Iowa, located along the Missouri River across from Omaha, Nebraska, known historically as a key railroad hub and gateway to the American West.
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C.
Omaha, Nebraska
Omaha, Nebraska is the largest city in the state of Nebraska, known as a major Midwestern economic and cultural hub situated along the Missouri River.
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D.
Cedar Falls, Iowa
Cedar Falls, Iowa is a city in northeastern Iowa known for being home to the University of Northern Iowa and a regional center for education and culture.
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E.
Orange City, Iowa
Orange City, Iowa is a small northwestern Iowa community known for its Dutch heritage, annual Tulip Festival, and role as the cultural and economic hub of Sioux County.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
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: Des Moines, Iowa Description of subject: Des Moines, Iowa is the capital and most populous city of Iowa, known as a major center for the U.S. insurance industry and regional finance.
Referenced by (221)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Des Moines
this entity surface form:
Des Moines
subject surface form:
Pleasant Hill, Iowa
this entity surface form:
Des Moines
this entity surface form:
Des Moines
subject surface form:
Altoona, Iowa