Macon County, Alabama
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Macon County, Alabama is a county in east-central Alabama known for its historical significance in the American civil rights movement and as the home of Tuskegee University.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Macon County, Alabama canonical | 17 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2016958 — 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: Macon County, Alabama Context triple: [Nathaniel Macon, honoredBy, Macon County, Alabama]
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A.
Madison County, Alabama
Madison County, Alabama is a north Alabama county that includes the city of Huntsville and is known for its major role in U.S. space and defense activities.
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B.
Marshall County, Alabama
Marshall County, Alabama is a northeastern Alabama county known for its scenic location along the Tennessee River and Lake Guntersville, with Guntersville as its county seat.
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C.
Marion County, Alabama
Marion County, Alabama is a rural county in northwestern Alabama known for its small towns, outdoor recreation areas, and location within the Appalachian foothills.
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D.
Fayette County, Alabama
Fayette County, Alabama is a rural county in western Alabama known for its small-town communities, forestry and agricultural economy, and the county seat of Fayette.
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E.
Monroe County, Alabama
Monroe County, Alabama is a rural county in southwest Alabama known for its literary heritage as the home of "To Kill a Mockingbird" author Harper Lee and the setting that inspired the fictional town of Maycomb.
- 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: Macon County, Alabama Target entity description: Macon County, Alabama is a county in east-central Alabama known for its historical significance in the American civil rights movement and as the home of Tuskegee University.
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A.
Madison County, Alabama
Madison County, Alabama is a north Alabama county that includes the city of Huntsville and is known for its major role in U.S. space and defense activities.
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B.
Marshall County, Alabama
Marshall County, Alabama is a northeastern Alabama county known for its scenic location along the Tennessee River and Lake Guntersville, with Guntersville as its county seat.
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C.
Marion County, Alabama
Marion County, Alabama is a rural county in northwestern Alabama known for its small towns, outdoor recreation areas, and location within the Appalachian foothills.
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D.
Fayette County, Alabama
Fayette County, Alabama is a rural county in western Alabama known for its small-town communities, forestry and agricultural economy, and the county seat of Fayette.
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E.
Monroe County, Alabama
Monroe County, Alabama is a rural county in southwest Alabama known for its literary heritage as the home of "To Kill a Mockingbird" author Harper Lee and the setting that inspired the fictional town of Maycomb.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
administrative division
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county ⓘ |
| borderedBy |
Bullock County, Alabama
NERFINISHED
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Elmore County, Alabama NERFINISHED ⓘ Lee County, Alabama NERFINISHED ⓘ Montgomery County, Alabama NERFINISHED ⓘ Russell County, Alabama NERFINISHED ⓘ Tallapoosa County, Alabama NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| contains |
Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site
NERFINISHED
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Tuskegee National Forest NERFINISHED ⓘ Tuskegee University NERFINISHED ⓘ Tuskegee, Alabama NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| countySeat | Tuskegee, Alabama NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dateEstablished | 1832-12-18 ⓘ |
| FIPSCode | 01087 ⓘ |
| GNISID | 01607040 ⓘ |
| hasCity | Tuskegee, Alabama NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCountyGovernmentType | county commission ⓘ |
| hasEducationalInstitution | Tuskegee University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasHistoricSite |
Moton Field
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Tuskegee Institute National Historic Site NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMajorHighway |
Interstate 85
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
U.S. Route 231 NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 29 NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 80 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMetropolitanArea | Montgomery, Alabama metropolitan area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTown |
Franklin, Alabama
NERFINISHED
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Notasulga, Alabama NERFINISHED ⓘ Shorter, Alabama NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasUnincorporatedCommunity |
Brownville, Alabama
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Cedar Creek, Alabama NERFINISHED ⓘ Fitzpatrick, Alabama NERFINISHED ⓘ Hardaway, Alabama NERFINISHED ⓘ Liberty City, Alabama NERFINISHED ⓘ Little Texas, Alabama NERFINISHED ⓘ Milstead, Alabama NERFINISHED ⓘ Society Hill, Alabama NERFINISHED ⓘ Warriorstand, Alabama NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Tuskegee syphilis study site
ⓘ
role in American civil rights movement ⓘ |
| largestCity | Tuskegee, Alabama NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn | east-central Alabama ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Nathaniel Macon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Black Belt region of Alabama NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| regionCode | US-AL NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| state | Alabama ⓘ |
| timeZone | Central Time Zone ⓘ |
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: Macon County, Alabama Description of subject: Macon County, Alabama is a county in east-central Alabama known for its historical significance in the American civil rights movement and as the home of Tuskegee University.
Referenced by (17)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Notasulga, Alabama
subject surface form:
Notasulga, Alabama
subject surface form:
Notasulga, Alabama
subject surface form:
Tuskegee, Alabama
subject surface form:
Tuskegee, Alabama
subject surface form:
Tuskegee, Alabama
subject surface form:
Black Belt (Alabama)
subject surface form:
Montgomery County, Alabama