Oto, Iowa
E635725
Oto, Iowa is a small rural town located in western Iowa within the Sioux City metropolitan area.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Oto, Iowa canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7006930 — 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: Oto, Iowa Context triple: [Woodbury County, Iowa, contains, Oto, Iowa]
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A.
Osage, Iowa
Osage, Iowa is a small city in northern Iowa known as the administrative and commercial hub of Mitchell County.
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B.
Ocheyedan, Iowa
Ocheyedan, Iowa is a small rural city in northwestern Iowa known for its agricultural surroundings and proximity to the Ocheyedan Mound, one of the state's notable natural landmarks.
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C.
Wiota, Iowa
Wiota, Iowa is a small rural city located in Cass County in the southwestern part of the state.
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D.
Ossian, Iowa
Ossian, Iowa is a small rural city located in northeastern Iowa within Winneshiek County.
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E.
Ottumwa, Iowa
Ottumwa, Iowa is a small city in southeastern Iowa known as a regional hub on the Des Moines River with a mix of industrial, rail, and agricultural heritage.
- 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: Oto, Iowa Target entity description: Oto, Iowa is a small rural town located in western Iowa within the Sioux City metropolitan area.
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A.
Osage, Iowa
Osage, Iowa is a small city in northern Iowa known as the administrative and commercial hub of Mitchell County.
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B.
Ocheyedan, Iowa
Ocheyedan, Iowa is a small rural city in northwestern Iowa known for its agricultural surroundings and proximity to the Ocheyedan Mound, one of the state's notable natural landmarks.
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C.
Wiota, Iowa
Wiota, Iowa is a small rural city located in Cass County in the southwestern part of the state.
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D.
Ossian, Iowa
Ossian, Iowa is a small rural city located in northeastern Iowa within Winneshiek County.
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E.
Ottumwa, Iowa
Ottumwa, Iowa is a small city in southeastern Iowa known as a regional hub on the Des Moines River with a mix of industrial, rail, and agricultural heritage.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | town ⓘ |
| abbreviation | Oto, IA NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| areaCode | 712 ⓘ |
| areaLandSqMi | 0.16 ⓘ |
| areaTotalSqMi | 0.16 ⓘ |
| areaWaterSqMi | 0.00 ⓘ |
| climateType | humid continental climate ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| countryCode | US NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| county | Woodbury County, Iowa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countySeatOf | none ⓘ |
| economicCharacter | small rural town ⓘ |
| elevationInFeet | 1102 ⓘ |
| elevationInMeters | 336 ⓘ |
| FIPScode | 19-60475 ⓘ |
| GNISFeatureID | 0459114 ⓘ |
| governmentType | mayor–council government ⓘ |
| hasFeature | rural community ⓘ |
| hasSchoolDistrict | Lawton–Bronson Community School District NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTransportation | local county roads ⓘ |
| incorporatedInYear | 1893 ⓘ |
| landUse | agricultural ⓘ |
| latitude | 42.281 ⓘ |
| locatedIn | western Iowa ⓘ |
| locatedOnRiver | Little Sioux River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| longitude | -95.868 ⓘ |
| mergedIntoSchoolDistrict | Eastwood Community School District NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mergedSchoolDistrictYear | 1980 ⓘ |
| metropolitanArea | Sioux City metropolitan area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Otoe people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nearestMajorCity | Sioux City, Iowa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Sioux City metropolitan area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| populationCensus2000 | 145 ⓘ |
| populationCensus2010 | 108 ⓘ |
| populationDensityPerSqMi2010 | 675.0 ⓘ |
| postalCode | 51044 ⓘ |
| previousSchoolDistrict |
Eastwood Community School District
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Oto Community School District NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | Midwestern United States ⓘ |
| state | Iowa ⓘ |
| timeZone | Central Time Zone ⓘ |
| timeZoneDST |
Central Time Zone
ⓘ
surface form:
Central Daylight Time
|
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: Oto, Iowa Description of subject: Oto, Iowa is a small rural town located in western Iowa within the Sioux City metropolitan area.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.