Blank Park Zoo
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Blank Park Zoo is a zoological park in Des Moines, Iowa, featuring a variety of animal exhibits, conservation programs, and family-oriented educational activities.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Blank Park Zoo canonical | 3 |
| managed by Blank Park Zoo Foundation | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3922282 — 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: Blank Park Zoo Context triple: [Polk County, Iowa, hasAttraction, Blank Park Zoo]
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A.
Binder Park Zoo
Binder Park Zoo is a large nonprofit zoological park near Battle Creek, Michigan, best known for its expansive African savanna exhibit and focus on conservation and education.
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B.
Potter Park Zoo
Potter Park Zoo is a historic zoological park in Lansing, Michigan, featuring a variety of animal exhibits and conservation-focused educational programs.
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C.
Elmwood Park Zoo
Elmwood Park Zoo is a small, family-friendly zoological park in Pennsylvania known for its intimate animal exhibits, conservation programs, and educational activities.
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D.
Beardsley Zoo
Beardsley Zoo is a historic zoological park in Bridgeport, Connecticut, known for its focus on North and South American species and conservation education.
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E.
Henry Doorly Zoo
Henry Doorly Zoo is a major zoological park and aquarium in Omaha, Nebraska, renowned for its large indoor exhibits and conservation-focused animal habitats.
- 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: Blank Park Zoo Target entity description: Blank Park Zoo is a zoological park in Des Moines, Iowa, featuring a variety of animal exhibits, conservation programs, and family-oriented educational activities.
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A.
Binder Park Zoo
Binder Park Zoo is a large nonprofit zoological park near Battle Creek, Michigan, best known for its expansive African savanna exhibit and focus on conservation and education.
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B.
Potter Park Zoo
Potter Park Zoo is a historic zoological park in Lansing, Michigan, featuring a variety of animal exhibits and conservation-focused educational programs.
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C.
Elmwood Park Zoo
Elmwood Park Zoo is a small, family-friendly zoological park in Pennsylvania known for its intimate animal exhibits, conservation programs, and educational activities.
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D.
Beardsley Zoo
Beardsley Zoo is a historic zoological park in Bridgeport, Connecticut, known for its focus on North and South American species and conservation education.
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E.
Henry Doorly Zoo
Henry Doorly Zoo is a major zoological park and aquarium in Omaha, Nebraska, renowned for its large indoor exhibits and conservation-focused animal habitats.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
nonprofit organization
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tourist attraction ⓘ zoo ⓘ |
| accreditation | accredited by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums ⓘ |
| area | approximately 25 acres ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| county | Polk County, Iowa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
conservation
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education ⓘ family recreation ⓘ |
| formerName | Blank Municipal Zoo ⓘ |
| governance |
Blank Park Zoo
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
managed by Blank Park Zoo Foundation
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| hasExhibit |
Africa exhibit
ⓘ
Australian Adventure ⓘ
surface form:
Australia Adventure
Discovery Center ⓘ Free-range aviary ⓘ Giraffe feeding area ⓘ Great Cats ⓘ
surface form:
Great Cats exhibit
Kids Kingdom ⓘ Penguin exhibit ⓘ red panda ⓘ
surface form:
Red panda exhibit
Reptile and amphibian exhibits ⓘ Sea Lion and Seal Harbor ⓘ |
| hasFacility |
concessions and dining areas
ⓘ
event and rental spaces ⓘ gift shop ⓘ |
| hostsEvent |
Night Eyes Halloween event
ⓘ
Zoo Brew ⓘ holiday and seasonal events ⓘ |
| locatedIn | south side of Des Moines ⓘ |
| location | Des Moines, Iowa ⓘ |
| mission | to inspire an appreciation of the natural world through conservation, education, research, and recreation ⓘ |
| name | Blank Park Zoo self-link ⓘ |
| numberOfAnimals | over 800 ⓘ |
| numberOfSpecies | over 100 ⓘ |
| offersProgram |
animal encounters
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conservation lectures and events ⓘ outreach education programs ⓘ school education programs ⓘ summer camps ⓘ zoo overnights ⓘ |
| openingDate | 1966 ⓘ |
| operator | Blank Park Zoo Foundation ⓘ |
| owner |
Des Moines, Iowa
ⓘ
surface form:
City of Des Moines
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| participatesIn |
global wildlife conservation projects
ⓘ
species survival plans ⓘ |
| state | Iowa ⓘ |
| zooAssociationMembership | Association of Zoos and Aquariums ⓘ |
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: Blank Park Zoo Description of subject: Blank Park Zoo is a zoological park in Des Moines, Iowa, featuring a variety of animal exhibits, conservation programs, and family-oriented educational activities.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Central Iowa
this entity surface form:
managed by Blank Park Zoo Foundation