Fairfield, Washington, United States
E532636
Fairfield, Washington, United States, is a small rural town in eastern Washington known for its agricultural surroundings and as the birthplace of assemblage artist Ed Kienholz.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Fairfield, Washington, United States canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5583545 — 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: Fairfield, Washington, United States Context triple: [Ed Kienholz, placeOfBirth, Fairfield, Washington, United States]
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A.
Federal Way, Washington, United States
Federal Way is a suburban city in King County, Washington, known for its location between Seattle and Tacoma and its history as a corporate and commercial hub.
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B.
Yakima, Washington, United States
Yakima is a city in central Washington State known for its agricultural production—especially apples and wine grapes—and as the childhood home of writer Raymond Carver.
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C.
Freeland, Washington
Freeland, Washington is an unincorporated community and census-designated place located on Whidbey Island in Island County, known for its waterfront setting and small-town character.
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D.
Ridgefield, Washington
Ridgefield, Washington is a small city in southwestern Washington State known for its proximity to rich wetlands and wildlife habitats, including a major national wildlife refuge.
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E.
Everett, Washington, United States
Everett, Washington, United States is a city north of Seattle best known as a major aerospace manufacturing hub and home to one of the world’s largest airplane assembly plants.
- 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: Fairfield, Washington, United States Target entity description: Fairfield, Washington, United States, is a small rural town in eastern Washington known for its agricultural surroundings and as the birthplace of assemblage artist Ed Kienholz.
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A.
Federal Way, Washington, United States
Federal Way is a suburban city in King County, Washington, known for its location between Seattle and Tacoma and its history as a corporate and commercial hub.
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B.
Yakima, Washington, United States
Yakima is a city in central Washington State known for its agricultural production—especially apples and wine grapes—and as the childhood home of writer Raymond Carver.
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C.
Freeland, Washington
Freeland, Washington is an unincorporated community and census-designated place located on Whidbey Island in Island County, known for its waterfront setting and small-town character.
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D.
Ridgefield, Washington
Ridgefield, Washington is a small city in southwestern Washington State known for its proximity to rich wetlands and wildlife habitats, including a major national wildlife refuge.
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E.
Everett, Washington, United States
Everett, Washington, United States is a city north of Seattle best known as a major aerospace manufacturing hub and home to one of the world’s largest airplane assembly plants.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | town ⓘ |
| areaLandSquareKilometers | 1.59 ⓘ |
| areaLandSquareMiles | 0.61 ⓘ |
| areaTotalSquareKilometers | 1.59 ⓘ |
| areaTotalSquareMiles | 0.61 ⓘ |
| areaWaterSquareKilometers | 0.00 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Fairfield, Washington, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| countrySubdivision | Pacific Northwest NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| county | Spokane County NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| elevationInFeet | 2441 ⓘ |
| elevationInMeters | 744 ⓘ |
| FIPSCode | 53-23105 ⓘ |
| GNISFeatureID | 1504864 ⓘ |
| governmentType | mayor–council ⓘ |
| hasAreaCode | 509 ⓘ |
| hasClimate | humid continental climate ⓘ |
| hasDaylightSavingTime | yes ⓘ |
| hasNotablePerson | Ed Kienholz NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPostalCode | 99012 ⓘ |
| hasRegionCode | US-WA NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| incorporatedAsTown | 1905 ⓘ |
| knownFor |
agricultural surroundings
ⓘ
being the birthplace of Ed Kienholz NERFINISHED ⓘ rural character ⓘ |
| locatedIn | eastern Washington NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Pacific Time Zone ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Washington–Idaho border NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedSouthOf | Spokane, Washington NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf |
Inland Northwest
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Spokane metropolitan area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| populationCensus2010 | 612 ⓘ |
| populationEstimate2019 | 626 ⓘ |
| primaryEconomicActivity | agriculture ⓘ |
| state | Washington ⓘ |
| UTCOffsetDaylightSavingTime | −7 ⓘ |
| UTCOffsetStandardTime | −8 ⓘ |
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: Fairfield, Washington, United States Description of subject: Fairfield, Washington, United States, is a small rural town in eastern Washington known for its agricultural surroundings and as the birthplace of assemblage artist Ed Kienholz.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.