Des Moines County Courthouse
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The Des Moines County Courthouse is a historic government building in Burlington, Iowa, serving as the center of county judicial and administrative functions.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Des Moines County Courthouse canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10615575 — 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: Des Moines County Courthouse Context triple: [Burlington, Iowa, hasLandmark, Des Moines County Courthouse]
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A.
Des Moines City Hall
Des Moines City Hall is the primary municipal government building of Des Moines, Iowa, housing key city offices and serving as the center of local administration and civic affairs.
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B.
Iowa Judicial Branch Building
The Iowa Judicial Branch Building is the courthouse complex in Des Moines that houses the Iowa Supreme Court and other key components of the state’s judicial system.
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C.
Iowa County Courthouse
The Iowa County Courthouse is a historic government building serving as the center of judicial and administrative functions for Iowa County, Iowa.
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D.
Washington County Courthouse (Iowa)
Washington County Courthouse (Iowa) is a historic government building that serves as the center of judicial and administrative functions for Washington County in the state of Iowa.
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E.
Madison County Courthouse (Iowa)
The Madison County Courthouse in Iowa is a historic 19th-century courthouse in Winterset, noted for its distinctive architecture and role as the center of county government.
- 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: Des Moines County Courthouse Target entity description: The Des Moines County Courthouse is a historic government building in Burlington, Iowa, serving as the center of county judicial and administrative functions.
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A.
Des Moines City Hall
Des Moines City Hall is the primary municipal government building of Des Moines, Iowa, housing key city offices and serving as the center of local administration and civic affairs.
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B.
Iowa Judicial Branch Building
The Iowa Judicial Branch Building is the courthouse complex in Des Moines that houses the Iowa Supreme Court and other key components of the state’s judicial system.
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C.
Iowa County Courthouse
The Iowa County Courthouse is a historic government building serving as the center of judicial and administrative functions for Iowa County, Iowa.
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D.
Washington County Courthouse (Iowa)
Washington County Courthouse (Iowa) is a historic government building that serves as the center of judicial and administrative functions for Washington County in the state of Iowa.
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E.
Madison County Courthouse (Iowa)
The Madison County Courthouse in Iowa is a historic 19th-century courthouse in Winterset, noted for its distinctive architecture and role as the center of county government.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (18)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
county courthouse
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courthouse ⓘ historic building ⓘ |
| architecturalType | courthouse ⓘ |
| category |
Buildings and structures in Burlington, Iowa
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County courthouses in Iowa ⓘ Government buildings in Iowa ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| function |
center of county administrative functions
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center of county judicial functions ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | historic ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Burlington, Iowa
NERFINISHED
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Des Moines County, Iowa NERFINISHED ⓘ Iowa ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| ownedBy | Des Moines County government NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedFor |
county government administration
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court proceedings ⓘ |
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: Des Moines County Courthouse Description of subject: The Des Moines County Courthouse is a historic government building in Burlington, Iowa, serving as the center of county judicial and administrative functions.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.