West Des Moines, Iowa
E32481
West Des Moines, Iowa is a rapidly growing suburban city in the Des Moines metropolitan area known for its strong economy, retail and business centers, and high quality of life.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| West Des Moines, Iowa canonical | 17 |
| West Des Moines | 8 |
| City of West Des Moines | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T197464 — 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: West Des Moines, Iowa Context triple: [Google Fiber, serviceArea, West Des Moines, Iowa]
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A.
Des Moines, Iowa
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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B.
Oakland, Iowa
Oakland, Iowa is a small rural city in southwestern Iowa known for its agricultural community and location along the West Nishnabotna River.
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C.
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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D.
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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E.
Minden, Iowa
Minden, Iowa is a small rural city located in western Iowa within Pottawattamie 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: West Des Moines, Iowa Target entity description: West Des Moines, Iowa is a rapidly growing suburban city in the Des Moines metropolitan area known for its strong economy, retail and business centers, and high quality of life.
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A.
Des Moines, Iowa
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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B.
Oakland, Iowa
Oakland, Iowa is a small rural city in southwestern Iowa known for its agricultural community and location along the West Nishnabotna River.
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C.
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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D.
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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E.
Minden, Iowa
Minden, Iowa is a small rural city located in western Iowa within Pottawattamie County.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: West Des Moines, Iowa Description of subject: West Des Moines, Iowa is a rapidly growing suburban city in the Des Moines metropolitan area known for its strong economy, retail and business centers, and high quality of life.
Referenced by (26)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
West Des Moines
this entity surface form:
West Des Moines
this entity surface form:
West Des Moines
subject surface form:
Dean Scream
this entity surface form:
West Des Moines
this entity surface form:
City of West Des Moines
this entity surface form:
West Des Moines
this entity surface form:
West Des Moines
subject surface form:
Central Iowa
this entity surface form:
West Des Moines
this entity surface form:
West Des Moines