Lyon County, Iowa
E14574
Lyon County, Iowa is a rural county in the far northwestern corner of Iowa known for its agricultural landscape and small communities near the Minnesota and South Dakota borders.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Lyon County, Iowa canonical | 47 |
| Lyon County, Iowa, United States | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T84782 — 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: Lyon County, Iowa Context triple: [Sioux County, Iowa, borderedBy, Lyon County, Iowa]
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Cedar County, Iowa
Cedar County, Iowa is a predominantly rural county in eastern Iowa known for its agricultural landscape and historic communities, including the birthplace of President Herbert Hoover in West Branch.
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Pottawattamie County, Iowa
Pottawattamie County, Iowa is a county in the southwestern part of the state, known for its county seat and largest city, Council Bluffs, which lies across the Missouri River from Omaha, Nebraska.
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C.
Marion County, Iowa
Marion County, Iowa is a county in south-central Iowa known for its Dutch heritage in the city of Pella and its mix of agricultural and small-town communities.
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Sioux County, Iowa
Sioux County, Iowa is a rural county in northwestern Iowa known for its strong Dutch-American heritage and agricultural economy.
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E.
Howard County, Iowa
Howard County, Iowa is a rural county in northeastern Iowa known for its agricultural landscape and as the home of the city of Cresco.
- 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: Lyon County, Iowa Target entity description: Lyon County, Iowa is a rural county in the far northwestern corner of Iowa known for its agricultural landscape and small communities near the Minnesota and South Dakota borders.
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A.
Cedar County, Iowa
Cedar County, Iowa is a predominantly rural county in eastern Iowa known for its agricultural landscape and historic communities, including the birthplace of President Herbert Hoover in West Branch.
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B.
Pottawattamie County, Iowa
Pottawattamie County, Iowa is a county in the southwestern part of the state, known for its county seat and largest city, Council Bluffs, which lies across the Missouri River from Omaha, Nebraska.
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C.
Marion County, Iowa
Marion County, Iowa is a county in south-central Iowa known for its Dutch heritage in the city of Pella and its mix of agricultural and small-town communities.
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Sioux County, Iowa
Sioux County, Iowa is a rural county in northwestern Iowa known for its strong Dutch-American heritage and agricultural economy.
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Howard County, Iowa
Howard County, Iowa is a rural county in northeastern Iowa known for its agricultural landscape and as the home of the city of Cresco.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: Lyon County, Iowa Description of subject: Lyon County, Iowa is a rural county in the far northwestern corner of Iowa known for its agricultural landscape and small communities near the Minnesota and South Dakota borders.
Referenced by (48)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Lyon County, Iowa
subject linked to:
Island Park
subject linked to:
Lincoln County
subject linked to:
Lincoln County