Iowa City Book Festival
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The Iowa City Book Festival is an annual literary celebration featuring author readings, panel discussions, and book-related events held in the UNESCO City of Literature, Iowa City, Iowa.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Iowa City Book Festival canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T317577 — 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: Iowa City Book Festival Context triple: [Iowa City, Iowa, isHomeOf, Iowa City Book Festival]
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A.
Iowa City Jazz Festival
The Iowa City Jazz Festival is an annual music event that brings nationally and internationally recognized jazz artists to downtown Iowa City for free outdoor performances and community celebrations.
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B.
Iowa City Public Library
The Iowa City Public Library is a major public library system serving residents of Iowa City, Iowa, providing extensive collections, community programs, and educational resources.
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C.
Iowa Writers' Workshop
The Iowa Writers' Workshop is a highly prestigious graduate-level creative writing program at the University of Iowa, renowned for its influential faculty and alumni and its central role in shaping contemporary American literature.
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D.
Ithaca Festival
Ithaca Festival is an annual community arts and music celebration in downtown Ithaca, New York, featuring local performers, parades, and cultural activities.
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E.
Iowa City, Iowa
Iowa City, Iowa is a mid-sized Midwestern city best known as the home of the University of Iowa and a UNESCO City of Literature.
- 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: Iowa City Book Festival Target entity description: The Iowa City Book Festival is an annual literary celebration featuring author readings, panel discussions, and book-related events held in the UNESCO City of Literature, Iowa City, Iowa.
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A.
Iowa City Jazz Festival
The Iowa City Jazz Festival is an annual music event that brings nationally and internationally recognized jazz artists to downtown Iowa City for free outdoor performances and community celebrations.
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B.
Iowa City Public Library
The Iowa City Public Library is a major public library system serving residents of Iowa City, Iowa, providing extensive collections, community programs, and educational resources.
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C.
Iowa Writers' Workshop
The Iowa Writers' Workshop is a highly prestigious graduate-level creative writing program at the University of Iowa, renowned for its influential faculty and alumni and its central role in shaping contemporary American literature.
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D.
Ithaca Festival
Ithaca Festival is an annual community arts and music celebration in downtown Ithaca, New York, featuring local performers, parades, and cultural activities.
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E.
Iowa City, Iowa
Iowa City, Iowa is a mid-sized Midwestern city best known as the home of the University of Iowa and a UNESCO City of Literature.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
annual event
ⓘ
book festival ⓘ literary festival ⓘ |
| affiliation |
UNESCO Creative Cities Network
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surface form:
UNESCO City of Literature network
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| aim |
to celebrate literature
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to engage the community in literary arts ⓘ to promote reading ⓘ to support authors ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| genre |
books
ⓘ
literature ⓘ |
| hasActivity |
author readings
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book-related events ⓘ panel discussions ⓘ |
| hasComponent |
book signings
ⓘ
community events ⓘ panels ⓘ readings ⓘ workshops ⓘ |
| hasLanguage | English ⓘ |
| hasParticipant |
authors
ⓘ
literary organizations ⓘ publishers ⓘ readers ⓘ |
| inception | 2009 ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Iowa
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Iowa City, Iowa ⓘ Iowa City, Iowa ⓘ
surface form:
UNESCO City of Literature, Iowa City
|
| locationType | downtown Iowa City ⓘ |
| organizer |
Iowa City, Iowa
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surface form:
Iowa City UNESCO City of Literature
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| recurrence | annual ⓘ |
| subject |
contemporary literature
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fiction ⓘ nonfiction ⓘ poetry ⓘ writing craft ⓘ |
| typicalTimeOfYear | October ⓘ |
| website | https://www.iowacitybookfestival.org/ ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Iowa City Book Festival Description of subject: The Iowa City Book Festival is an annual literary celebration featuring author readings, panel discussions, and book-related events held in the UNESCO City of Literature, Iowa City, Iowa.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.