Postville, Iowa
E336749
Postville, Iowa is a small, historically agricultural town in northeastern Iowa known for its diverse immigrant population and meatpacking industry.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Postville, Iowa canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3197436 — 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: Postville, Iowa Context triple: [Northeastern Iowa, containsSettlement, Postville, Iowa]
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A.
Postville
Postville is a small Inuit community in northern Labrador, Canada, located within the self-governing Inuit region of Nunatsiavut.
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B.
Springville, Iowa
Springville, Iowa is a small incorporated city located in eastern Iowa within the Cedar Rapids metropolitan area.
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C.
Washington, Iowa
Washington, Iowa is a small city in southeastern Iowa known for its historic downtown, agricultural surroundings, and role as a local commercial and cultural hub.
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D.
Stockton, Iowa
Stockton, Iowa is a small rural city located in Muscatine County in eastern Iowa, United States.
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E.
Sioux City, Iowa
Sioux City, Iowa is a regional economic and cultural hub in northwestern Iowa located along the Missouri River near the borders of Nebraska and South Dakota.
- 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: Postville, Iowa Target entity description: Postville, Iowa is a small, historically agricultural town in northeastern Iowa known for its diverse immigrant population and meatpacking industry.
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A.
Postville
Postville is a small Inuit community in northern Labrador, Canada, located within the self-governing Inuit region of Nunatsiavut.
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B.
Springville, Iowa
Springville, Iowa is a small incorporated city located in eastern Iowa within the Cedar Rapids metropolitan area.
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C.
Washington, Iowa
Washington, Iowa is a small city in southeastern Iowa known for its historic downtown, agricultural surroundings, and role as a local commercial and cultural hub.
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D.
Stockton, Iowa
Stockton, Iowa is a small rural city located in Muscatine County in eastern Iowa, United States.
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E.
Sioux City, Iowa
Sioux City, Iowa is a regional economic and cultural hub in northwestern Iowa located along the Missouri River near the borders of Nebraska and South Dakota.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
city
ⓘ
municipality ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| county |
Allamakee County, Iowa
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Clayton County, Iowa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| elevationInFeet | 1201 ⓘ |
| elevationInMeters | 366 ⓘ |
| GNISFeatureID | 0460563 ⓘ |
| hasAreaCode | 563 ⓘ |
| hasDemographicCharacteristic |
ethnically diverse population
ⓘ
large Latino population ⓘ significant Orthodox Jewish community ⓘ significant Somali immigrant community ⓘ |
| hasEconomicChallenge | impact of immigration enforcement on local economy ⓘ |
| hasFeature | small-town rural character ⓘ |
| hasGovernmentType | mayor–council government ⓘ |
| hasIndustry |
agriculture
ⓘ
food processing ⓘ meat processing ⓘ |
| hasMotto | Hometown to the World ⓘ |
| hasNotableEvent | 2008 immigration raid at Agriprocessors meatpacking plant ⓘ |
| hasPopulation | approximately 2000 ⓘ |
| hasPostalCode | 52162 ⓘ |
| hasPublicSchool |
Cora B. Darling Elementary School
ⓘ
Postville High School ⓘ Postville Middle School ⓘ |
| hasReligiousCommunity |
Christian community
ⓘ
Jewish community ⓘ Muslim community ⓘ |
| hasSchoolDistrict | Postville Community School District ⓘ |
| historicallyDependentOn |
agriculture
ⓘ
livestock production ⓘ |
| incorporatedIn | 1892 ⓘ |
| knownFor |
agricultural economy
ⓘ
diverse immigrant population ⓘ meatpacking industry ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | Northeastern Iowa ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Central Time Zone ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Decorah, Iowa
ⓘ
Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin ⓘ Waukon, Iowa ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Joel Post ⓘ |
| partOf | Driftless Area ⓘ |
| populationCensusYear | 2020 ⓘ |
| servedByHighway |
Iowa Highway 51
ⓘ
U.S. Route 18 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| state | Iowa ⓘ |
| timeZoneDST |
Central Time Zone
ⓘ
surface form:
Central Daylight Time
|
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: Postville, Iowa Description of subject: Postville, Iowa is a small, historically agricultural town in northeastern Iowa known for its diverse immigrant population and meatpacking industry.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.