Hornick, Iowa
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Hornick, Iowa is a small rural city in western Iowa known for its location near the Missouri River and history of flooding and flood-mitigation efforts.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Hornick, Iowa canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7006933 — 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: Hornick, Iowa Context triple: [Woodbury County, Iowa, contains, Hornick, Iowa]
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A.
Elk Horn, Iowa
Elk Horn, Iowa is a small rural city in western Iowa known for its strong Danish heritage and cultural attractions.
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B.
Hartwick, Iowa
Hartwick, Iowa is a small rural city located in central Iowa within Poweshiek County.
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C.
Hudson, Iowa
Hudson, Iowa is a small city in northeastern Iowa that functions as a suburban community within the Waterloo–Cedar Falls metropolitan area.
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D.
Hancock, Iowa
Hancock, Iowa is a small rural city located in western Iowa within Pottawattamie County.
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E.
Mineola, Iowa
Mineola, Iowa is a small unincorporated rural community located in southwestern Iowa.
- 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: Hornick, Iowa Target entity description: Hornick, Iowa is a small rural city in western Iowa known for its location near the Missouri River and history of flooding and flood-mitigation efforts.
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A.
Elk Horn, Iowa
Elk Horn, Iowa is a small rural city in western Iowa known for its strong Danish heritage and cultural attractions.
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B.
Hartwick, Iowa
Hartwick, Iowa is a small rural city located in central Iowa within Poweshiek County.
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C.
Hudson, Iowa
Hudson, Iowa is a small city in northeastern Iowa that functions as a suburban community within the Waterloo–Cedar Falls metropolitan area.
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D.
Hancock, Iowa
Hancock, Iowa is a small rural city located in western Iowa within Pottawattamie County.
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E.
Mineola, Iowa
Mineola, Iowa is a small unincorporated rural community located in southwestern Iowa.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
city
ⓘ
municipality ⓘ |
| areaCode | 712 ⓘ |
| areaLandSquareMiles | 0.23 ⓘ |
| areaTotalSquareMiles | 0.23 ⓘ |
| areaWaterSquareMiles | 0.00 ⓘ |
| coordinates | approximately 42.225°N 96.083°W ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| county | Woodbury County, Iowa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| elevationAboveSeaLevel | approximately 338 meters ⓘ |
| FIPSCode | 19-36875 ⓘ |
| floodEvent | significant flooding in March 2019 ⓘ |
| GNISFeatureID | 0457520 ⓘ |
| governmentType | mayor–council government ⓘ |
| hasFloodHistory | yes ⓘ |
| implemented | levee improvements after 2019 flooding ⓘ |
| incorporatedIn | Iowa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
flood-mitigation efforts
ⓘ
history of flooding ⓘ |
| locatedInCountySubdivision | Willow Township, Woodbury County, Iowa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion |
Midwestern United States
ⓘ
western Iowa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Central Time Zone ⓘ |
| near | Missouri River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Sioux City metropolitan area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| populationCensus2010 | 225 ⓘ |
| populationCensus2020 | 255 ⓘ |
| postalCode | 51026 ⓘ |
| schoolDistrict | Westwood Community School District NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| state | Iowa ⓘ |
| timeZoneDST |
Central Time Zone
ⓘ
surface form:
Central Daylight Time
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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: Hornick, Iowa Description of subject: Hornick, Iowa is a small rural city in western Iowa known for its location near the Missouri River and history of flooding and flood-mitigation efforts.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.