ALA
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ALA is the leading professional organization in the United States dedicated to supporting libraries, librarians, and information services.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3500880 — 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: ALA Context triple: [American Library Association, hasAbbreviation, ALA]
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ALA
ALA is the IATA airport code for Almaty International Airport, the main air gateway to Almaty, Kazakhstan.
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ALA
ALA is the three-letter ISO 3166-1 country code assigned to the autonomous Åland Islands region of Finland.
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Alabama
Alabama is a southeastern U.S. state known for its significant role in American history, diverse landscapes from Gulf Coast beaches to Appalachian foothills, and major contributions to industry, agriculture, and the civil rights movement.
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D.
ALA (historical)
ALA (historical) was the former stock ticker symbol used to represent the French telecommunications company Alcatel on securities exchanges.
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AL
AL is the official postal abbreviation for the Brazilian state of Alagoas, located in the country's Northeast region.
- 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: ALA Target entity description: ALA is the leading professional organization in the United States dedicated to supporting libraries, librarians, and information services.
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A.
ALA
ALA is the three-letter ISO 3166-1 country code assigned to the autonomous Åland Islands region of Finland.
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B.
ALA
ALA is the IATA airport code for Almaty International Airport, the main air gateway to Almaty, Kazakhstan.
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C.
Alabama
Alabama is a southeastern U.S. state known for its significant role in American history, diverse landscapes from Gulf Coast beaches to Appalachian foothills, and major contributions to industry, agriculture, and the civil rights movement.
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D.
ALA (historical)
ALA (historical) was the former stock ticker symbol used to represent the French telecommunications company Alcatel on securities exchanges.
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E.
AL
AL is the official postal abbreviation for the Brazilian state of Alagoas, located in the country's Northeast region.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: ALA Description of subject: ALA is the leading professional organization in the United States dedicated to supporting libraries, librarians, and information services.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.