Eldon, Iowa
E35047
Eldon, Iowa is a small town best known as the setting of Grant Wood’s iconic painting "American Gothic," featuring the now-famous white farmhouse.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Eldon, Iowa canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T266181 — 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: Eldon, Iowa Context triple: [American Gothic, depictsLocation, Eldon, Iowa]
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A.
Loveland, Iowa
Loveland, Iowa is a small unincorporated rural community located in western Iowa near the Missouri River.
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B.
McClelland, Iowa
McClelland, Iowa is a small rural community located in Pottawattamie County in the western part of the state.
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C.
Hancock, Iowa
Hancock, Iowa is a small rural city located in western Iowa within Pottawattamie County.
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D.
Neola, Iowa
Neola, Iowa is a small rural city in western Iowa known for its agricultural community and location within Pottawattamie County.
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E.
Underwood, Iowa
Underwood, Iowa is a small rural city in western Iowa known for its close-knit community and agricultural surroundings.
- 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: Eldon, Iowa Target entity description: Eldon, Iowa is a small town best known as the setting of Grant Wood’s iconic painting "American Gothic," featuring the now-famous white farmhouse.
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A.
Loveland, Iowa
Loveland, Iowa is a small unincorporated rural community located in western Iowa near the Missouri River.
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B.
McClelland, Iowa
McClelland, Iowa is a small rural community located in Pottawattamie County in the western part of the state.
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C.
Hancock, Iowa
Hancock, Iowa is a small rural city located in western Iowa within Pottawattamie County.
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D.
Neola, Iowa
Neola, Iowa is a small rural city in western Iowa known for its agricultural community and location within Pottawattamie County.
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E.
Underwood, Iowa
Underwood, Iowa is a small rural city in western Iowa known for its close-knit community and agricultural surroundings.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
city
ⓘ
human settlement ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| governmentType | mayor–council government ⓘ |
| hasAreaCode | 641 ⓘ |
| hasCategory |
Cities in Iowa
ⓘ
Cities in Wapello County, Iowa ⓘ |
| hasEconomicActivity | heritage tourism ⓘ |
| hasFeature | small rural community ⓘ |
| hasFIPSCode | 19-24635 ⓘ |
| hasGNISFeatureID | 0455760 ⓘ |
| hasLandmark |
American Gothic House Center
ⓘ
surface form:
American Gothic House
Dibble House ⓘ |
| hasNotableArtistAssociated | Grant Wood ⓘ |
| hasNotableWorkAssociated | American Gothic ⓘ |
| hasPopulation | approximately 900 ⓘ |
| hasPostalCode | 52554 ⓘ |
| hasState | Iowa ⓘ |
| hasStateAbbreviation | IA ⓘ |
| hasTourismAttraction | American Gothic House Center ⓘ |
| hasUTCOffset | UTC−06:00 ⓘ |
| hasUTCOffsetDST | UTC−05:00 ⓘ |
| isSettingFor | painting American Gothic ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Iowa
ⓘ
Wapello County, Iowa ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | Midwestern United States ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Central Time Zone ⓘ |
| locatedOnRiver | Des Moines River ⓘ |
| partOf | Wapello County, Iowa ⓘ |
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: Eldon, Iowa Description of subject: Eldon, Iowa is a small town best known as the setting of Grant Wood’s iconic painting "American Gothic," featuring the now-famous white farmhouse.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.