Cotaco, Alabama
E701948
Cotaco, Alabama is an unincorporated rural community in Morgan County known historically as one of the county’s earliest settlements.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cotaco, Alabama canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7842163 — 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: Cotaco, Alabama Context triple: [Morgan County, Alabama, contains, Cotaco, Alabama]
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A.
Thach, Alabama
Thach, Alabama is a small unincorporated community located in Walker County in the U.S. state of Alabama.
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B.
Dutton, Alabama
Dutton, Alabama is a small rural town located in northeastern Alabama within the Appalachian region.
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C.
Tarrant, Alabama
Tarrant, Alabama is a small industrial city in Jefferson County, near Birmingham, known historically for its steel and manufacturing operations.
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D.
Webb, Alabama
Webb, Alabama is a small town located in southeastern Alabama within the Dothan metropolitan area.
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E.
Sterrett, Alabama
Sterrett, Alabama is a small unincorporated community and rural residential area located in eastern Shelby County in central Alabama.
- 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: Cotaco, Alabama Target entity description: Cotaco, Alabama is an unincorporated rural community in Morgan County known historically as one of the county’s earliest settlements.
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A.
Thach, Alabama
Thach, Alabama is a small unincorporated community located in Walker County in the U.S. state of Alabama.
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B.
Dutton, Alabama
Dutton, Alabama is a small rural town located in northeastern Alabama within the Appalachian region.
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C.
Tarrant, Alabama
Tarrant, Alabama is a small industrial city in Jefferson County, near Birmingham, known historically for its steel and manufacturing operations.
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D.
Webb, Alabama
Webb, Alabama is a small town located in southeastern Alabama within the Dothan metropolitan area.
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E.
Sterrett, Alabama
Sterrett, Alabama is a small unincorporated community and rural residential area located in eastern Shelby County in central Alabama.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
rural community
ⓘ
unincorporated community ⓘ |
| areaCode |
256
ⓘ
938 ⓘ |
| characteristic |
rural
ⓘ
unincorporated ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| countrySubdivision | Morgan County, Alabama NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| county | Morgan County, Alabama NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| GNISFeatureClass | populated place ⓘ |
| governingBody | Morgan County government NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasHistoricalRole | early settlement in Morgan County, Alabama ⓘ |
| hasJurisdiction | Morgan County, Alabama NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSettlementType | unincorporated community ⓘ |
| historicalSignificance | one of the earliest settlements in Morgan County, Alabama ⓘ |
| isIncorporated | no ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Morgan County, Alabama NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Central Time Zone ⓘ |
| locatedOnContinent | North America ⓘ |
| partOf | northern Alabama ⓘ |
| postalService | served by United States Postal Service ⓘ |
| region | North Alabama NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| state | Alabama ⓘ |
| timeZoneDST |
Central Time Zone
ⓘ
surface form:
Central Daylight Time
|
| timeZoneStandard |
Central Time Zone
ⓘ
surface form:
Central Standard 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: Cotaco, Alabama Description of subject: Cotaco, Alabama is an unincorporated rural community in Morgan County known historically as one of the county’s earliest settlements.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Morgan County, Alabama