Tuscaloosa, Alabama
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Tuscaloosa, Alabama is a city in western Alabama known as the home of the University of Alabama and a regional center for education, healthcare, and industry.
All labels observed (9)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Tuscaloosa, Alabama canonical | 67 |
| Tuscaloosa | 43 |
| Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States | 10 |
| City of Tuscaloosa | 5 |
| Downtown Tuscaloosa | 1 |
| Tuscaloosa, Alabama (parts) | 1 |
| Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35487 | 1 |
| city of Tuscaloosa | 1 |
| downtown Tuscaloosa | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T487730 — 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: Tuscaloosa, Alabama Context triple: [Crescent, routeVia, Tuscaloosa, Alabama]
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Montgomery, Alabama
Montgomery, Alabama is the state capital known as a pivotal center of the American civil rights movement, including events such as the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
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Trussville, Alabama
Trussville, Alabama is a growing suburban city in Jefferson and St. Clair counties known for its family-friendly neighborhoods, schools, and proximity to Birmingham.
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Gadsden, Alabama
Gadsden, Alabama is a small industrial city in northeastern Alabama known historically for its manufacturing plants and labor history.
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Bessemer, Alabama
Bessemer, Alabama is an industrial city in Jefferson County that forms part of the greater Birmingham region in central Alabama.
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Anniston, Alabama
Anniston, Alabama is a small city in northeastern Alabama known historically as a planned industrial community and gateway to the nearby Appalachian foothills.
- 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: Tuscaloosa, Alabama Target entity description: Tuscaloosa, Alabama is a city in western Alabama known as the home of the University of Alabama and a regional center for education, healthcare, and industry.
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Montgomery, Alabama
Montgomery, Alabama is the state capital known as a pivotal center of the American civil rights movement, including events such as the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
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Trussville, Alabama
Trussville, Alabama is a growing suburban city in Jefferson and St. Clair counties known for its family-friendly neighborhoods, schools, and proximity to Birmingham.
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Gadsden, Alabama
Gadsden, Alabama is a small industrial city in northeastern Alabama known historically for its manufacturing plants and labor history.
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Bessemer, Alabama
Bessemer, Alabama is an industrial city in Jefferson County that forms part of the greater Birmingham region in central Alabama.
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E.
Anniston, Alabama
Anniston, Alabama is a small city in northeastern Alabama known historically as a planned industrial community and gateway to the nearby Appalachian foothills.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Tuscaloosa, Alabama Description of subject: Tuscaloosa, Alabama is a city in western Alabama known as the home of the University of Alabama and a regional center for education, healthcare, and industry.
Referenced by (130)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Tuscaloosa, Alabama (parts)
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Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States
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Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States
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Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States
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Mercedes-Benz U.S. International plant (nearby Vance, Alabama, in Tuscaloosa County)
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City of Tuscaloosa
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downtown Tuscaloosa