Holcomb, Kansas
E249400
Holcomb, Kansas is a small rural village in western Kansas best known as the real-life setting of Truman Capote’s true-crime book "In Cold Blood."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Holcomb, Kansas canonical | 9 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1794632 — 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: Holcomb, Kansas Context triple: [In Cold Blood, setInLocation, Holcomb, Kansas]
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A.
McCune, Kansas
McCune, Kansas is a small rural city located in southeastern Kansas within the Pittsburg micropolitan area.
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B.
Mission, Kansas
Mission, Kansas is a small suburban city in Johnson County that forms part of the Kansas City metropolitan area.
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C.
Solomon, Kansas
Solomon, Kansas is a small city in central Kansas that lies within both Dickinson and Saline counties and serves as a rural community along the Solomon River.
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D.
Merriam, Kansas
Merriam, Kansas is a small suburban city in Johnson County that forms part of the greater Kansas City metropolitan area.
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E.
Franklin, Kansas
Franklin, Kansas is a small unincorporated community in southeastern Kansas known historically as a coal mining town.
- 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: Holcomb, Kansas Target entity description: Holcomb, Kansas is a small rural village in western Kansas best known as the real-life setting of Truman Capote’s true-crime book "In Cold Blood."
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A.
McCune, Kansas
McCune, Kansas is a small rural city located in southeastern Kansas within the Pittsburg micropolitan area.
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B.
Mission, Kansas
Mission, Kansas is a small suburban city in Johnson County that forms part of the Kansas City metropolitan area.
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C.
Solomon, Kansas
Solomon, Kansas is a small city in central Kansas that lies within both Dickinson and Saline counties and serves as a rural community along the Solomon River.
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D.
Merriam, Kansas
Merriam, Kansas is a small suburban city in Johnson County that forms part of the greater Kansas City metropolitan area.
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E.
Franklin, Kansas
Franklin, Kansas is a small unincorporated community in southeastern Kansas known historically as a coal mining town.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
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: Holcomb, Kansas Description of subject: Holcomb, Kansas is a small rural village in western Kansas best known as the real-life setting of Truman Capote’s true-crime book "In Cold Blood."
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.