United States state of Missouri
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The United States state of Missouri is a Midwestern state known for its major cities like St. Louis and Kansas City, its role as a historic gateway to the American West, and its diverse mix of agricultural, industrial, and cultural regions.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| U.S. state of Missouri | 20 |
| Missouri, United States | 11 |
| state of Missouri | 8 |
| United States state of Missouri canonical | 2 |
| ISO 3166-2:US-MO | 1 |
| Present-day Missouri | 1 |
| USA Missouri | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3265758 — 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: United States state of Missouri Context triple: [Sibley, Missouri, countrySubdivision, United States state of Missouri]
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A.
Missouri and Illinois
Missouri and Illinois are neighboring Midwestern U.S. states whose shared boundary is largely defined by the Mississippi River.
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B.
Florida, Missouri, United States
Florida, Missouri, United States, is a small village best known as the birthplace of famed American author Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens).
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C.
eastern Missouri
Eastern Missouri is the region of Missouri that encompasses the St. Louis metropolitan area and other communities along the state’s eastern border near the Mississippi River.
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D.
Kentucky and Missouri
Kentucky and Missouri are neighboring U.S. states in the central United States whose shared boundary is largely defined by the Mississippi River.
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E.
Northeastern Missouri
Northeastern Missouri is a predominantly rural region of Missouri known for its small towns, agricultural landscape, and location along the Mississippi River.
- 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: United States state of Missouri Target entity description: The United States state of Missouri is a Midwestern state known for its major cities like St. Louis and Kansas City, its role as a historic gateway to the American West, and its diverse mix of agricultural, industrial, and cultural regions.
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A.
Missouri and Illinois
Missouri and Illinois are neighboring Midwestern U.S. states whose shared boundary is largely defined by the Mississippi River.
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B.
Florida, Missouri, United States
Florida, Missouri, United States, is a small village best known as the birthplace of famed American author Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens).
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C.
eastern Missouri
Eastern Missouri is the region of Missouri that encompasses the St. Louis metropolitan area and other communities along the state’s eastern border near the Mississippi River.
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D.
Kentucky and Missouri
Kentucky and Missouri are neighboring U.S. states in the central United States whose shared boundary is largely defined by the Mississippi River.
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E.
Northeastern Missouri
Northeastern Missouri is a predominantly rural region of Missouri known for its small towns, agricultural landscape, and location along the Mississippi River.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (62)
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: United States state of Missouri Description of subject: The United States state of Missouri is a Midwestern state known for its major cities like St. Louis and Kansas City, its role as a historic gateway to the American West, and its diverse mix of agricultural, industrial, and cultural regions.
Referenced by (44)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
USS Missouri
this entity surface form:
U.S. state of Missouri
subject surface form:
USS Missouri
this entity surface form:
U.S. state of Missouri
subject surface form:
UMKC School of Dentistry
this entity surface form:
state of Missouri
this entity surface form:
state of Missouri
this entity surface form:
U.S. state of Missouri
this entity surface form:
Present-day Missouri
this entity surface form:
state of Missouri
this entity surface form:
state of Missouri
this entity surface form:
state of Missouri
this entity surface form:
U.S. state of Missouri
this entity surface form:
Missouri, United States
subject surface form:
School of Social Work (University of Missouri–St. Louis)
this entity surface form:
state of Missouri
this entity surface form:
U.S. state of Missouri
this entity surface form:
U.S. state of Missouri
subject surface form:
Nevada, Missouri
this entity surface form:
U.S. state of Missouri
this entity surface form:
state of Missouri
this entity surface form:
Missouri, United States
this entity surface form:
USA Missouri
this entity surface form:
U.S. state of Missouri
this entity surface form:
Missouri, United States
this entity surface form:
Missouri, United States
this entity surface form:
state of Missouri
this entity surface form:
U.S. state of Missouri
this entity surface form:
U.S. state of Missouri
this entity surface form:
Missouri, United States
this entity surface form:
U.S. state of Missouri
this entity surface form:
Missouri, United States
subject surface form:
New Point, Missouri
this entity surface form:
Missouri, United States
this entity surface form:
U.S. state of Missouri
this entity surface form:
Missouri, United States
this entity surface form:
ISO 3166-2:US-MO
this entity surface form:
U.S. state of Missouri
this entity surface form:
U.S. state of Missouri
this entity surface form:
Missouri, United States
this entity surface form:
Missouri, United States
this entity surface form:
U.S. state of Missouri
this entity surface form:
U.S. state of Missouri
this entity surface form:
U.S. state of Missouri
this entity surface form:
U.S. state of Missouri
this entity surface form:
U.S. state of Missouri
subject surface form:
Deidre Pujols
this entity surface form:
Missouri, United States
this entity surface form:
U.S. state of Missouri