Farmington, West Virginia
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Farmington, West Virginia is a small town in Marion County known historically as a coal-mining community and the site of the 1968 Farmington Mine disaster.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Farmington, West Virginia canonical | 3 |
| Farmington, West Virginia, United States | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3301496 — 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: Farmington, West Virginia Context triple: [Farmington High School, locatedIn, Farmington, West Virginia]
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A.
Hinton, West Virginia
Hinton, West Virginia is a small historic city in Summers County known as a gateway to outdoor recreation in the New River Gorge region, including the nearby Bluestone National Scenic River.
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B.
Fairmont, West Virginia
Fairmont, West Virginia is a small city in north-central West Virginia known historically for coal mining and its location amid the Appalachian foothills.
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C.
Fayetteville, West Virginia
Fayetteville, West Virginia is a small Appalachian town known as an outdoor recreation hub and gateway community to the New River Gorge, a premier destination for rock climbing, whitewater rafting, and hiking.
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D.
Madison, West Virginia
Madison, West Virginia is a small town in the southern part of the state that serves as an administrative and commercial hub for the surrounding coal-mining region.
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E.
Montgomery, West Virginia
Montgomery, West Virginia, is a small city along the Kanawha River in southern West Virginia historically known as a coal town and former home of the West Virginia University Institute of Technology.
- 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: Farmington, West Virginia Target entity description: Farmington, West Virginia is a small town in Marion County known historically as a coal-mining community and the site of the 1968 Farmington Mine disaster.
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A.
Hinton, West Virginia
Hinton, West Virginia is a small historic city in Summers County known as a gateway to outdoor recreation in the New River Gorge region, including the nearby Bluestone National Scenic River.
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B.
Fairmont, West Virginia
Fairmont, West Virginia is a small city in north-central West Virginia known historically for coal mining and its location amid the Appalachian foothills.
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C.
Fayetteville, West Virginia
Fayetteville, West Virginia is a small Appalachian town known as an outdoor recreation hub and gateway community to the New River Gorge, a premier destination for rock climbing, whitewater rafting, and hiking.
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D.
Madison, West Virginia
Madison, West Virginia is a small town in the southern part of the state that serves as an administrative and commercial hub for the surrounding coal-mining region.
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E.
Montgomery, West Virginia
Montgomery, West Virginia, is a small city along the Kanawha River in southern West Virginia historically known as a coal town and former home of the West Virginia University Institute of Technology.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
mining disaster
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municipality ⓘ town ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| economyHistoricallyBasedOn | coal mining ⓘ |
| governingBody | local town government ⓘ |
| hasFeature | coal mines ⓘ |
| hasHistoricalEvent | Farmington Mine disaster ⓘ |
| hasHistoricalSignificance | coal-mining community ⓘ |
| hasNotableDisaster | Farmington Mine disaster ⓘ |
| hasPostalService | United States Postal Service ⓘ |
| hasPrimaryLanguage | English ⓘ |
| hasSettlementType | town ⓘ |
| industry | coal mining ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Appalachia
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Marion County, West Virginia ⓘ West Virginia ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | north-central West Virginia ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Eastern Time Zone ⓘ |
| location | Farmington, West Virginia ⓘ |
| occurredIn | 1968 ⓘ |
| partOf |
state of West Virginia
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linked to:
West Virginia
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| roadAccessVia |
West Virginia state highways
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linked to:
West Virginia state highway system
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| usesCurrency |
United States dollar
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linked to:
US dollar
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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: Farmington, West Virginia Description of subject: Farmington, West Virginia is a small town in Marion County known historically as a coal-mining community and the site of the 1968 Farmington Mine disaster.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.