Clive
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Clive is a suburban city in central Iowa, United States, known for its residential communities and location within the greater Des Moines metropolitan area.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Clive canonical | 9 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4103373 — 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: Clive Context triple: [Des Moines–West Des Moines metropolitan area, containsCity, Clive]
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A.
Clive
Clive is a surname most famously associated with Robert Clive, the 18th-century British officer who played a key role in establishing British rule in India.
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B.
Cecil
Cecil is a masculine given name most famously associated with pioneering American film director and producer Cecil B. DeMille.
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C.
Simon Dunsdon
Simon Dunsdon is a cinematographer known for his work on the animated film "Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation."
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D.
Richard Clifford
Richard Clifford is a British actor and director known for his work in theatre and film, as well as his long-term partnership with Sir Derek Jacobi.
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E.
Hugo Carmody
Hugo Carmody is a charming, somewhat hapless young gentleman from P. G. Wodehouse’s Blandings Castle stories, often embroiled in romantic entanglements and comic misadventures.
- 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: Clive Target entity description: Clive is a suburban city in central Iowa, United States, known for its residential communities and location within the greater Des Moines metropolitan area.
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A.
Clive
Clive is a surname most famously associated with Robert Clive, the 18th-century British officer who played a key role in establishing British rule in India.
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B.
Cecil
Cecil is a masculine given name most famously associated with pioneering American film director and producer Cecil B. DeMille.
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C.
Simon Dunsdon
Simon Dunsdon is a cinematographer known for his work on the animated film "Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation."
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D.
Richard Clifford
Richard Clifford is a British actor and director known for his work in theatre and film, as well as his long-term partnership with Sir Derek Jacobi.
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E.
Hugo Carmody
Hugo Carmody is a charming, somewhat hapless young gentleman from P. G. Wodehouse’s Blandings Castle stories, often embroiled in romantic entanglements and comic misadventures.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (34)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
city
ⓘ
suburb ⓘ |
| areaCode | 515 ⓘ |
| climateRegion | humid continental climate ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| countrySubdivision |
Midwestern United States
ⓘ
surface form:
Midwest
|
| county |
Dallas County
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Polk County NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| elevationUnit | feet ⓘ |
| governmentType | council–manager ⓘ |
| hasAmenity |
parks
ⓘ
recreational trails ⓘ schools ⓘ shopping centers ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
greenbelt trail system
ⓘ
residential communities ⓘ suburban character ⓘ |
| locatedIn | central Iowa ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Des Moines, Iowa
ⓘ
surface form:
Des Moines
Urbandale, Iowa ⓘ
surface form:
Urbandale
Waukee, Iowa ⓘ
surface form:
Waukee
West Des Moines, Iowa ⓘ
surface form:
West Des Moines
|
| metropolitanStatisticalArea | Des Moines–West Des Moines, Iowa MSA NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Des Moines metropolitan area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| postalCodePrefix | 50325 ⓘ |
| primaryLandUse | residential ⓘ |
| region | Midwestern United States ⓘ |
| secondaryLandUse | commercial ⓘ |
| state | Iowa ⓘ |
| timeZone | Central Time Zone ⓘ |
| timeZoneDST |
Central Time Zone
ⓘ
surface form:
Central Daylight Time
|
| transportationAccess |
Interstate 235
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Interstate 35 NERFINISHED ⓘ Interstate 80 ⓘ |
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: Clive Description of subject: Clive is a suburban city in central Iowa, United States, known for its residential communities and location within the greater Des Moines metropolitan area.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Central Iowa