Scottsboro
E108521
Scottsboro is a small city in northeastern Alabama known for its location along the Tennessee River and as the site of the historic Scottsboro Boys trials.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Scottsboro, Alabama | 9 |
| Scottsboro canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T820577 — 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: Scottsboro Context triple: [Alabama, containsCity, Scottsboro]
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A.
Jackson, Mississippi
Jackson, Mississippi is the capital and largest city of Mississippi, historically significant as a major center of activism and conflict during the American civil rights movement.
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B.
Selma, Alabama
Selma, Alabama is a historic city best known as a pivotal center of the American civil rights movement, particularly for the 1965 voting rights marches.
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C.
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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D.
Vincent, Alabama
Vincent, Alabama is a small town in central Alabama known for its rural character and location within the Birmingham–Hoover metropolitan area.
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E.
Gadsden, Alabama
Gadsden, Alabama is a small industrial city in northeastern Alabama known historically for its manufacturing plants and labor history.
- 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: Scottsboro Target entity description: Scottsboro is a small city in northeastern Alabama known for its location along the Tennessee River and as the site of the historic Scottsboro Boys trials.
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A.
Jackson, Mississippi
Jackson, Mississippi is the capital and largest city of Mississippi, historically significant as a major center of activism and conflict during the American civil rights movement.
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B.
Selma, Alabama
Selma, Alabama is a historic city best known as a pivotal center of the American civil rights movement, particularly for the 1965 voting rights marches.
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C.
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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D.
Kingston, Alabama
Kingston, Alabama is an unincorporated rural community located in Shelby County in the central part of the state.
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E.
Vincent, Alabama
Vincent, Alabama is a small town in central Alabama known for its rural character and location within the Birmingham–Hoover metropolitan area.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
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: Scottsboro Description of subject: Scottsboro is a small city in northeastern Alabama known for its location along the Tennessee River and as the site of the historic Scottsboro Boys trials.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Scottsboro
linked to: Scottsboro
linked to: Scottsboro
linked to: Scottsboro
linked to: Scottsboro
linked to: Scottsboro
subject linked to:
Jackson County
linked to: Scottsboro
subject linked to:
Jackson County
linked to: Scottsboro
subject linked to:
Jackson County
linked to: Scottsboro