Bedford, Iowa
E219811
Bedford, Iowa is a small city that serves as the county seat of Taylor County in southwestern Iowa.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Bedford, Iowa canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1561565 — 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: Bedford, Iowa Context triple: [Southwestern Iowa, containsSettlement, Bedford, Iowa]
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A.
Waterloo, Iowa
Waterloo, Iowa is a mid-sized city in northeastern Iowa known as an industrial and commercial hub of the Cedar Valley region along the Cedar River.
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B.
Bridgewater, Iowa
Bridgewater, Iowa is a small rural city located in southwestern Iowa within Adair County.
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C.
Coralville, Iowa
Coralville, Iowa is a growing suburban city in eastern Iowa, located near Iowa City and known for its shopping centers, recreational amenities, and proximity to the University of Iowa.
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D.
Davenport, Iowa
Davenport, Iowa is a major city along the Mississippi River in eastern Iowa, known as part of the Quad Cities metropolitan area and a regional hub for commerce and culture.
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E.
Greenfield, Iowa
Greenfield, Iowa is a small city in southwestern Iowa known as the administrative and commercial hub of Adair County.
- 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: Bedford, Iowa Target entity description: Bedford, Iowa is a small city that serves as the county seat of Taylor County in southwestern Iowa.
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A.
Waterloo, Iowa
Waterloo, Iowa is a mid-sized city in northeastern Iowa known as an industrial and commercial hub of the Cedar Valley region along the Cedar River.
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B.
Bridgewater, Iowa
Bridgewater, Iowa is a small rural city located in southwestern Iowa within Adair County.
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C.
Coralville, Iowa
Coralville, Iowa is a growing suburban city in eastern Iowa, located near Iowa City and known for its shopping centers, recreational amenities, and proximity to the University of Iowa.
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D.
Davenport, Iowa
Davenport, Iowa is a major city along the Mississippi River in eastern Iowa, known as part of the Quad Cities metropolitan area and a regional hub for commerce and culture.
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E.
Greenfield, Iowa
Greenfield, Iowa is a small city in southwestern Iowa known as the administrative and commercial hub of Adair County.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
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: Bedford, Iowa Description of subject: Bedford, Iowa is a small city that serves as the county seat of Taylor County in southwestern Iowa.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Taylor County
subject linked to:
Taylor County
subject linked to:
Taylor County
subject linked to:
Taylor County