Columbia, Alabama
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Columbia, Alabama is a small town in southeastern Alabama that forms part of the Dothan metropolitan area and is one of the older settlements in Houston County.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Columbia, Alabama canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7678998 — 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: Columbia, Alabama Context triple: [Houston County, Alabama, hasTown, Columbia, Alabama]
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A.
Centre, Alabama
Centre, Alabama is a small city in Cherokee County known as the "Crappie Capital of the World" due to its proximity to the popular fishing destination Weiss Lake.
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B.
Cordova, Alabama
Cordova, Alabama is a small city in north-central Alabama known historically as a former textile and coal-mining community along the Mulberry Fork of the Black Warrior River.
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C.
Steele, Alabama
Steele, Alabama is a small town in northeastern Alabama known for its rural character and location within St. Clair County.
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D.
Sylvania, Alabama
Sylvania, Alabama is a small rural town in northeastern Alabama known for its close-knit community and location atop Sand Mountain.
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E.
Roanoke, Alabama
Roanoke, Alabama is a small city in eastern Alabama known for its rural character and role as a local commercial and community hub.
- 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: Columbia, Alabama Target entity description: Columbia, Alabama is a small town in southeastern Alabama that forms part of the Dothan metropolitan area and is one of the older settlements in Houston County.
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A.
Centre, Alabama
Centre, Alabama is a small city in Cherokee County known as the "Crappie Capital of the World" due to its proximity to the popular fishing destination Weiss Lake.
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B.
Cordova, Alabama
Cordova, Alabama is a small city in north-central Alabama known historically as a former textile and coal-mining community along the Mulberry Fork of the Black Warrior River.
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C.
Steele, Alabama
Steele, Alabama is a small town in northeastern Alabama known for its rural character and location within St. Clair County.
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D.
Sylvania, Alabama
Sylvania, Alabama is a small rural town in northeastern Alabama known for its close-knit community and location atop Sand Mountain.
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E.
Roanoke, Alabama
Roanoke, Alabama is a small city in eastern Alabama known for its rural character and role as a local commercial and community hub.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | town ⓘ |
| borderingStateAcrossRiver | Georgia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| countrySubdivision |
Southern United States
ⓘ
surface form:
Southeastern United States
|
| county | Houston County, Alabama NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| elevationInFeet | 249 ⓘ |
| elevationInMeters | 76 ⓘ |
| FIPSCode | 01-16712 ⓘ |
| GNISFeatureID | 0116320 ⓘ |
| hasAreaCode | 334 ⓘ |
| hasGovernmentType | mayor–council government ⓘ |
| hasLatitude | 31.292 ⓘ |
| hasLongitude | -85.111 ⓘ |
| hasNamedFor | Columbia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPopulationEstimateYear | 2020 ⓘ |
| hasPostalCode | 36319 ⓘ |
| hasRegion | Wiregrass region NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSettlementType | town ⓘ |
| isInCensusArea | Houston County, Alabama NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isInCountySeatOf | Houston County, Alabama NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isInMetropolitanArea | Dothan, Alabama metropolitan area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isOneOf | older settlements in Houston County, Alabama ⓘ |
| locatedIn | southeastern Alabama ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Central Time Zone ⓘ |
| locatedOnRiver | Chattahoochee River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf |
Dothan metropolitan area
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Houston County, Alabama NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| state | Alabama ⓘ |
| 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: Columbia, Alabama Description of subject: Columbia, Alabama is a small town in southeastern Alabama that forms part of the Dothan metropolitan area and is one of the older settlements in Houston County.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Houston County, Alabama