Ferguson, Missouri
E181545
Ferguson, Missouri is a suburban city in the Greater St. Louis area that gained national attention following the 2014 police shooting of Michael Brown and the subsequent protests over racial injustice and policing.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ferguson, Missouri canonical | 10 |
| City of Ferguson, Missouri | 2 |
| City of Ferguson | 1 |
| City of Ferguson government | 1 |
| Ferguson | 1 |
| Ferguson protests | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1596312 — 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: Ferguson, Missouri Context triple: [St. Louis County, Missouri, containsCity, Ferguson, Missouri]
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A.
Ferguson
Ferguson is a common Scottish surname historically associated with the Gaelic "son of Fergus" and borne by numerous notable figures, including Sir Alex Ferguson.
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B.
Fulton, Missouri
Fulton, Missouri is a small city in central Missouri best known as the site where Winston Churchill delivered his famous 1946 "Iron Curtain" speech at Westminster College.
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C.
Springfield, Missouri
Springfield, Missouri is a mid-sized city in southwestern Missouri known as the "Queen City of the Ozarks" and recognized as a regional hub for education, healthcare, and commerce.
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D.
North Kansas City, Missouri
North Kansas City, Missouri is a small, independent city in the Kansas City metropolitan area known for its industrial base, revitalized downtown, and close-knit suburban character.
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E.
East St. Louis, Illinois
East St. Louis, Illinois is an industrial city in southwestern Illinois, located directly across the Mississippi River from St. Louis, Missouri, historically known as a major rail and transportation 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: Ferguson, Missouri Target entity description: Ferguson, Missouri is a suburban city in the Greater St. Louis area that gained national attention following the 2014 police shooting of Michael Brown and the subsequent protests over racial injustice and policing.
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A.
Ferguson
Ferguson is a common Scottish surname historically associated with the Gaelic "son of Fergus" and borne by numerous notable figures, including Sir Alex Ferguson.
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B.
Fulton, Missouri
Fulton, Missouri is a small city in central Missouri best known as the site where Winston Churchill delivered his famous 1946 "Iron Curtain" speech at Westminster College.
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C.
Springfield, Missouri
Springfield, Missouri is a mid-sized city in southwestern Missouri known as the "Queen City of the Ozarks" and recognized as a regional hub for education, healthcare, and commerce.
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D.
North Kansas City, Missouri
North Kansas City, Missouri is a small, independent city in the Kansas City metropolitan area known for its industrial base, revitalized downtown, and close-knit suburban character.
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E.
East St. Louis, Illinois
East St. Louis, Illinois is an industrial city in southwestern Illinois, located directly across the Mississippi River from St. Louis, Missouri, historically known as a major rail and transportation hub.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
city
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suburb ⓘ |
| associatedWithMovement | Black Lives Matter movement ⓘ |
| climate | humid continental to humid subtropical transition ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| county | St. Louis County, Missouri ⓘ |
| demographicTrend | majority-Black population by early 21st century ⓘ |
| elevationAboveSeaLevel | about 500–600 feet ⓘ |
| governingBody | Ferguson City Council ⓘ |
| governmentType | council–manager government ⓘ |
| hasAreaCode |
314
ⓘ
557 ⓘ |
| hasCityManager | city manager of Ferguson, Missouri ⓘ |
| hasFIPSCode | 29-23986 (approximate/representative) ⓘ |
| hasGNISFeatureID | 0735611 (approximate/representative) ⓘ |
| hasHigherEducationInstitution | St. Louis Community College – Florissant Valley (nearby, serves Ferguson area) ⓘ |
| hasMayor | mayor of Ferguson, Missouri ⓘ |
| hasPoliceReformEfforts | implementation of court and policing reforms after 2014 ⓘ |
| hasPostalCode |
63135
ⓘ
63136 ⓘ |
| hasPublicSchoolDistrict | Ferguson-Florissant School District ⓘ |
| hasRailConnection | historically served by Wabash Railroad ⓘ |
| hasZIPCodeType | standard ⓘ |
| incorporatedAsCity | 1894 ⓘ |
| knownFor |
civil unrest following police shooting of Michael Brown
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national debate on racial injustice and policing ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Greater St. Louis
ⓘ
linked to:
St. Louis metropolitan area
|
| locatedInTimeZone | Central Time Zone ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Dellwood, Missouri
ⓘ
Florissant, Missouri ⓘ St. Louis, Missouri ⓘ
linked to:
St. Louis, Missouri, United States
|
| majorEvent |
2014 protests against police brutality
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2014 shooting of Michael Brown ⓘ |
| mediaCoverage | extensive national and international news coverage in 2014 ⓘ |
| namedAfter | William B. Ferguson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Midwestern United States ⓘ |
| partOfMetropolitanArea | St. Louis metropolitan area ⓘ |
| policeDepartment | Ferguson Police Department ⓘ |
| populationCensus2010 | 21203 ⓘ |
| populationCensus2020 | 18000–19000 (approximate) ⓘ |
| region | eastern Missouri ⓘ |
| state | Missouri ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
U.S. Department of Justice civil rights investigation (2015)
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consent decree with U.S. Department of Justice ⓘ |
| timeZoneDST |
Central Daylight Time
ⓘ
linked to:
Central Time Zone
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| transportInfrastructure |
served by Interstate 270 nearby
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served by U.S. Route 67 nearby ⓘ |
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: Ferguson, Missouri Description of subject: Ferguson, Missouri is a suburban city in the Greater St. Louis area that gained national attention following the 2014 police shooting of Michael Brown and the subsequent protests over racial injustice and policing.
Referenced by (16)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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linked to: Ferguson, Missouri
linked to: Ferguson, Missouri
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linked to: Ferguson, Missouri
Nobody: Casualties of America’s War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond
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titleContains
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Ferguson
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linked to: Ferguson, Missouri