Holmes County, Mississippi
E348937
Holmes County, Mississippi is a rural county in the central part of the state known for its significant African American population and deep civil rights history.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Holmes County, Mississippi canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2865994 — 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: Holmes County, Mississippi Context triple: [Madison County, Mississippi, borderedBy, Holmes County, Mississippi]
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A.
Forrest County, Mississippi
Forrest County, Mississippi is a county in southeastern Mississippi known for encompassing the city of Hattiesburg, a regional center for education, healthcare, and commerce.
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B.
Hancock County, Mississippi
Hancock County, Mississippi is a coastal county in the southwestern corner of the state known for its Gulf Coast communities and as home to NASA’s Stennis Space Center.
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C.
Madison County, Mississippi
Madison County, Mississippi is a rapidly growing county in the Jackson metropolitan area known for its affluent suburbs, strong public schools, and expanding commercial development.
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D.
Marshall County, Mississippi
Marshall County, Mississippi is a largely rural county in northern Mississippi that forms part of the greater Memphis metropolitan region.
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E.
Pike County, Mississippi
Pike County, Mississippi is a county in southwestern Mississippi known for its seat in Magnolia and its largest city, McComb, serving as a regional hub for transportation and commerce.
- 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: Holmes County, Mississippi Target entity description: Holmes County, Mississippi is a rural county in the central part of the state known for its significant African American population and deep civil rights history.
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A.
Forrest County, Mississippi
Forrest County, Mississippi is a county in southeastern Mississippi known for encompassing the city of Hattiesburg, a regional center for education, healthcare, and commerce.
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B.
Hancock County, Mississippi
Hancock County, Mississippi is a coastal county in the southwestern corner of the state known for its Gulf Coast communities and as home to NASA’s Stennis Space Center.
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C.
Madison County, Mississippi
Madison County, Mississippi is a rapidly growing county in the Jackson metropolitan area known for its affluent suburbs, strong public schools, and expanding commercial development.
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D.
Marshall County, Mississippi
Marshall County, Mississippi is a largely rural county in northern Mississippi that forms part of the greater Memphis metropolitan region.
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E.
Pike County, Mississippi
Pike County, Mississippi is a county in southwestern Mississippi known for its seat in Magnolia and its largest city, McComb, serving as a regional hub for transportation and commerce.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
administrative territorial entity
ⓘ
county ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| fipsCode | 28051 ⓘ |
| gnisID | 0693410 ⓘ |
| hasBorderWith |
Attala County, Mississippi
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Canton, Mississippi ⓘ
surface form:
Canton, Mississippi metropolitan area
Carroll County, Mississippi NERFINISHED ⓘ Humphreys County, Mississippi NERFINISHED ⓘ Leflore County, Mississippi NERFINISHED ⓘ Madison County, Mississippi NERFINISHED ⓘ Scott County, Mississippi NERFINISHED ⓘ Yazoo County, Mississippi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCountySeat | Lexington, Mississippi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasDemographicCharacteristic | majority African American population ⓘ |
| hasEconomicActivity |
agriculture
ⓘ
timber production ⓘ |
| hasHistoricalEvent | civil rights movement organizing in the 1960s ⓘ |
| hasLargestCity | Durant, Mississippi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMajorHighway |
Interstate 55
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mississippi Highway 12 ⓘ Mississippi Highway 14 ⓘ Mississippi Highway 17 ⓘ Mississippi Highway 19 ⓘ Mississippi Highway 43 ⓘ Mississippi Highway 432 ⓘ Mississippi Highway 713 ⓘ U.S. Route 49E NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 51 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPostalAbbreviation | MS ⓘ |
| hasSettlement |
Cruger, Mississippi
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Durant, Mississippi NERFINISHED ⓘ Goodman, Mississippi NERFINISHED ⓘ Lexington, Mississippi NERFINISHED ⓘ Pickens, Mississippi NERFINISHED ⓘ Tchula, Mississippi NERFINISHED ⓘ West, Mississippi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSignificantPopulationGroup |
Black Americans
ⓘ
surface form:
African Americans
|
| knownFor |
civil rights history
ⓘ
rural character ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Mississippi
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| locatedInRegion | Southern United States ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Central Time Zone ⓘ |
| namedAfter | David Holmes ⓘ |
| partOf |
North Mississippi Delta
ⓘ
surface form:
Mississippi Delta region
central Mississippi ⓘ |
| subdivisionOf | State of Mississippi ⓘ |
| subdivisionType | county ⓘ |
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: Holmes County, Mississippi Description of subject: Holmes County, Mississippi is a rural county in the central part of the state known for its significant African American population and deep civil rights history.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Madison County, Mississippi