Dakota City, Iowa, United States
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Dakota City, Iowa, United States, is a small Midwestern town best known as the birthplace of prominent American broadcast journalist Harry Reasoner.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dakota City, Iowa, United States canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8267211 — 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: Dakota City, Iowa, United States Context triple: [Harry Reasoner, placeOfBirth, Dakota City, Iowa, United States]
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A.
Dakota City, Nebraska
Dakota City, Nebraska is a small village that serves as the county seat of Dakota County in northeastern Nebraska, located along the Missouri River.
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B.
Yankton, South Dakota, United States
Yankton is a small city in southeastern South Dakota known as a historic Missouri River port and the birthplace of NFL kicker Adam Vinatieri.
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C.
Dakota, Illinois
Dakota, Illinois is a small rural village in northern Illinois that serves as one of the local communities within Stephenson County.
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D.
Dunlap, Iowa
Dunlap, Iowa is a small rural city in western Iowa known for its agricultural community and historic downtown.
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E.
Fort Dodge, Iowa
Fort Dodge, Iowa is a small industrial city in north-central Iowa known historically for its gypsum mining, manufacturing, and role as a regional commercial 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: Dakota City, Iowa, United States Target entity description: Dakota City, Iowa, United States, is a small Midwestern town best known as the birthplace of prominent American broadcast journalist Harry Reasoner.
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A.
Dakota City, Nebraska
Dakota City, Nebraska is a small village that serves as the county seat of Dakota County in northeastern Nebraska, located along the Missouri River.
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B.
Yankton, South Dakota, United States
Yankton is a small city in southeastern South Dakota known as a historic Missouri River port and the birthplace of NFL kicker Adam Vinatieri.
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C.
Dakota, Illinois
Dakota, Illinois is a small rural village in northern Illinois that serves as one of the local communities within Stephenson County.
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D.
Dunlap, Iowa
Dunlap, Iowa is a small rural city in western Iowa known for its agricultural community and historic downtown.
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E.
Fort Dodge, Iowa
Fort Dodge, Iowa is a small industrial city in north-central Iowa known historically for its gypsum mining, manufacturing, and role as a regional commercial hub.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | city ⓘ |
| adjacentTo | Humboldt, Iowa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| areaCode | 515 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Dakota City, Iowa, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| climateClassification | humid continental climate ⓘ |
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| county | Humboldt County, Iowa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| feature | small Midwestern town character ⓘ |
| governmentType | mayor–council government ⓘ |
| hasNotablePerson | Harry Reasoner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPublicSchoolDistrict | Humboldt Community School District NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isCountySeatOf | Humboldt County, Iowa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | Midwestern United States ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Central Time Zone ⓘ |
| locatedOnRiver | East Fork Des Moines River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Dakota people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOfMetropolitanArea | Fort Dodge micropolitan area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| postalCode | 50529 ⓘ |
| primaryLanguage | English ⓘ |
| region | north-central Iowa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| roadAccess |
Iowa Highway 3
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
U.S. Route 169 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| state | Iowa ⓘ |
| 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: Dakota City, Iowa, United States Description of subject: Dakota City, Iowa, United States, is a small Midwestern town best known as the birthplace of prominent American broadcast journalist Harry Reasoner.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.