Cedar Rapids, Iowa

E289303

city county seat

Cedar Rapids, Iowa is the second-largest city in the state, known as a major economic and cultural hub of eastern Iowa with a strong manufacturing base and vibrant arts scene.

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All labels observed (4)

Label	Occurrences
Cedar Rapids, Iowa canonical	53
Cedar Rapids	18
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States	7
City of Cedar Rapids	2

Statements (51)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	city ⓘ county seat ⓘ
airport	The Eastern Iowa Airport ⓘ
areaTotal	about 75 square miles ⓘ
climate	humid continental climate ⓘ
country	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
county	Linn County, Iowa NERFINISHED ⓘ
elevation	about 810 feet ⓘ
experiencedEvent	Iowa flood of 2008 ⓘ surface form: 2008 Cedar River flood
founded	1849 ⓘ
governmentType	council–manager ⓘ
hasCulturalInstitution	African American Museum of Iowa ⓘ Brucemore ⓘ Cedar Rapids Museum of Art ⓘ National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library ⓘ Paramount Theatre ⓘ Theatre Cedar Rapids ⓘ
hasMinorLeagueBaseballTeamClass	High-A ⓘ
hasNickname	City of Five Seasons ⓘ
hasProfessionalSportsTeam	Cedar Rapids Kernels ⓘ
hasRiverFeature	series of rapids on the Cedar River ⓘ
hasSisterCity	Kiryat Gat ⓘ surface form: Kiryat Gat, Israel Koszalin ⓘ surface form: Koszalin, Poland
incorporatedAsCity	January 15, 1870 ⓘ
isCountySeatOf	Linn County, Iowa NERFINISHED ⓘ
isSecondLargestCityIn	Iowa ⓘ
knownFor	aerospace and defense manufacturing ⓘ cultural hub of eastern Iowa ⓘ food processing ⓘ grain processing ⓘ manufacturing industry ⓘ vibrant arts scene ⓘ
locatedInTimeZone	Central Time Zone ⓘ
locatedOnRiver	Cedar River ⓘ
majorEmployer	Cargill ⓘ Collins Aerospace ⓘ General Mills ⓘ Quaker Oats ⓘ
mayorCouncilForm	yes ⓘ
metropolitanAreaPopulation	about 276000 (Cedar Rapids metro, 2020) ⓘ
motto	City of Five Seasons ⓘ surface form: The City of Five Seasons
namedAfter	Cedar River ⓘ
partOfCombinedStatisticalArea	Iowa City–Cedar Rapids Corridor ⓘ surface form: Cedar Rapids–Iowa City Corridor
population	about 137000 (2020 census) ⓘ
servedByInterstateHighway	Interstate 380 NERFINISHED ⓘ
servedByU.S.Highway	U.S. Route 151 NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 218 ⓘ U.S. Route 30 ⓘ
state	Iowa ⓘ
timeZone	UTC−06:00 ⓘ
timeZoneDST	UTC−05:00 ⓘ

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: Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Description of subject: Cedar Rapids, Iowa is the second-largest city in the state, known as a major economic and cultural hub of eastern Iowa with a strong manufacturing base and vibrant arts scene.

Referenced by (80)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Solon, Iowa → locatedNear → Cedar Rapids, Iowa ⓘ

Czech American → majorSettlementArea → Cedar Rapids, Iowa ⓘ

this entity surface form: Cedar Rapids

Shueyville, Iowa → hasNearbyCity → Cedar Rapids, Iowa ⓘ

Shueyville, Iowa → isResidentialSuburbOf → Cedar Rapids, Iowa ⓘ

Elijah Wood → placeOfBirth → Cedar Rapids, Iowa ⓘ

this entity surface form: Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States

Swisher, Iowa → nearCity → Cedar Rapids, Iowa ⓘ

Cedar Rapids metropolitan area → hasCentralCity → Cedar Rapids, Iowa ⓘ

this entity surface form: Cedar Rapids

Cedar Rapids metropolitan area → hasPrincipalCity → Cedar Rapids, Iowa ⓘ

this entity surface form: Cedar Rapids

Cedar Rapids metropolitan area → majorEmployerCity → Cedar Rapids, Iowa ⓘ

this entity surface form: Cedar Rapids

Cedar Rapids metropolitan area → largestCity → Cedar Rapids, Iowa ⓘ

this entity surface form: Cedar Rapids

Cedar Rapids → settingLocation → Cedar Rapids, Iowa ⓘ

Alexander Lippisch → placeOfDeath → Cedar Rapids, Iowa ⓘ

United States District Court for the Northern District of Iowa → primaryLocation → Cedar Rapids, Iowa ⓘ

Cedar River → flowsThrough → Cedar Rapids, Iowa ⓘ

Bobby Driscoll → placeOfBirth → Cedar Rapids, Iowa ⓘ

this entity surface form: Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States

Iowa Highway 27 → connectsCitiesInIowa → Cedar Rapids, Iowa ⓘ

this entity surface form: Cedar Rapids

Collins Radio Company → headquartersLocation → Cedar Rapids, Iowa ⓘ

Collins Radio Company → locationCity → Cedar Rapids, Iowa ⓘ

Interstate 380 → servesCity → Cedar Rapids, Iowa ⓘ

subject surface form: Interstate 380 (Iowa)

Anamosa, Iowa, United States → locatedNear → Cedar Rapids, Iowa ⓘ

U.S. Route 218 → passesThrough → Cedar Rapids, Iowa ⓘ

U.S. Route 218 → connects → Cedar Rapids, Iowa ⓘ

Robins, Iowa → locatedNear → Cedar Rapids, Iowa ⓘ

Fairfax, Iowa → locatedNear → Cedar Rapids, Iowa ⓘ

Lisbon, Iowa → locatedNear → Cedar Rapids, Iowa ⓘ

Center Point, Iowa → isInMetropolitanAreaOf → Cedar Rapids, Iowa ⓘ

The Eastern Iowa Airport → locatedIn → Cedar Rapids, Iowa ⓘ

this entity surface form: Cedar Rapids

The Eastern Iowa Airport → isOwnedBy → Cedar Rapids, Iowa ⓘ

this entity surface form: City of Cedar Rapids

The Eastern Iowa Airport → isOperatedBy → Cedar Rapids, Iowa ⓘ

this entity surface form: City of Cedar Rapids

The Eastern Iowa Airport → servesCity → Cedar Rapids, Iowa ⓘ

this entity surface form: Cedar Rapids

Mount Mercy University → locatedIn → Cedar Rapids, Iowa ⓘ

Mount Mercy University → city → Cedar Rapids, Iowa ⓘ

this entity surface form: Cedar Rapids

Kirkwood Community College → city → Cedar Rapids, Iowa ⓘ

this entity surface form: Cedar Rapids

Linn County Board of Supervisors → hasSeat → Cedar Rapids, Iowa ⓘ

Ron Livingston → placeOfBirth → Cedar Rapids, Iowa ⓘ

this entity surface form: Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States

Coe College → city → Cedar Rapids, Iowa ⓘ

this entity surface form: Cedar Rapids

Coe College → postalAddressCity → Cedar Rapids, Iowa ⓘ

this entity surface form: Cedar Rapids

Palisades-Kepler State Park → locatedNear → Cedar Rapids, Iowa ⓘ

Mount Vernon, Iowa → locatedNear → Cedar Rapids, Iowa ⓘ

Walker, Iowa → locatedNear → Cedar Rapids, Iowa ⓘ

Toddville, Iowa → hasMetropolitanProximityTo → Cedar Rapids, Iowa ⓘ

Toddville, Iowa → hasNearbyCity → Cedar Rapids, Iowa ⓘ

Hiawatha, Iowa → locatedNorthOf → Cedar Rapids, Iowa ⓘ

Hiawatha, Iowa → adjacentTo → Cedar Rapids, Iowa ⓘ

Hiawatha, Iowa → isSuburbOf → Cedar Rapids, Iowa ⓘ

Ely, Iowa → isNear → Cedar Rapids, Iowa ⓘ

Waubeek, Iowa → nearbyCity → Cedar Rapids, Iowa ⓘ

Amana Colonies → nearestCity → Cedar Rapids, Iowa ⓘ

this entity surface form: Cedar Rapids

Iowa City–Cedar Rapids Corridor → hasCoreCity → Cedar Rapids, Iowa ⓘ

this entity surface form: Cedar Rapids

Iowa City–Cedar Rapids Corridor → airportServesCity → Cedar Rapids, Iowa ⓘ

this entity surface form: Cedar Rapids