New Boston

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New Boston was the original name of the settlement that later became the city of Manhattan, Kansas.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
New Boston canonical 1

Statements (15)

Predicate Object
instanceOf historical settlement
continent North America
coordinateLocation near coordinates of present-day Manhattan, Kansas
country United States of America
hasHistoricalRole precursor settlement of Manhattan, Kansas
hasSuccessor Manhattan, Kansas NERFINISHED
locatedIn Kansas
locatedInAdministrativeEntity Riley County, Kansas NERFINISHED
locatedInTimeZone Central Time Zone
locatedOnWaterbody Big Blue River NERFINISHED
Kansas River NERFINISHED
namedAfter Boston, Massachusetts NERFINISHED
originalNameOf Manhattan, Kansas NERFINISHED
partOf American frontier settlements
presentLocation within modern city limits of Manhattan, Kansas

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: New Boston
Description of subject: New Boston was the original name of the settlement that later became the city of Manhattan, Kansas.

Referenced by (1)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Manhattan, Kansas foundedAs New Boston