Lime Springs, Iowa
E63117
Lime Springs, Iowa is a small rural city in northeastern Iowa known for its close-knit community and agricultural surroundings.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lime Springs, Iowa canonical | 3 |
| City of Lime Springs, Iowa | 1 |
| public works department of Lime Springs, Iowa | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T432964 — 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: Lime Springs, Iowa Context triple: [Howard County, Iowa, hasCity, Lime Springs, Iowa]
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A.
Lowden, Iowa
Lowden, Iowa is a small rural city in eastern Iowa known for its agricultural surroundings and tight-knit community.
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B.
Elma, Iowa
Elma, Iowa is a small rural city located in northeastern Iowa within Howard County.
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C.
McClelland, Iowa
McClelland, Iowa is a small rural community located in Pottawattamie County in the western part of the state.
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D.
Neola, Iowa
Neola, Iowa is a small rural city in western Iowa known for its agricultural community and location within Pottawattamie County.
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E.
Mechanicsville, Iowa
Mechanicsville, Iowa is a small rural city in eastern Iowa known for its agricultural surroundings and tight-knit community.
- 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: Lime Springs, Iowa Target entity description: Lime Springs, Iowa is a small rural city in northeastern Iowa known for its close-knit community and agricultural surroundings.
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A.
Lowden, Iowa
Lowden, Iowa is a small rural city in eastern Iowa known for its agricultural surroundings and tight-knit community.
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B.
Elma, Iowa
Elma, Iowa is a small rural city located in northeastern Iowa within Howard County.
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C.
McClelland, Iowa
McClelland, Iowa is a small rural community located in Pottawattamie County in the western part of the state.
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D.
Neola, Iowa
Neola, Iowa is a small rural city in western Iowa known for its agricultural community and location within Pottawattamie County.
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E.
Mechanicsville, Iowa
Mechanicsville, Iowa is a small rural city in eastern Iowa known for its agricultural surroundings and tight-knit community.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
city
ⓘ
human settlement ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| countrySubdivision | Iowa ⓘ |
| governingBody | Lime Springs city government ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
agricultural surroundings
ⓘ
close-knit community ⓘ rural community ⓘ small city ⓘ |
| hasCommunityType | rural community ⓘ |
| hasName | Lime Springs ⓘ |
| hasOfficialName | Lime Springs, Iowa ⓘ |
| hasPrimaryEconomicActivity | agriculture ⓘ |
| hasSettlementType | city ⓘ |
| isInCountrySubdivision | Iowa ⓘ |
| isInCounty | Howard County, Iowa ⓘ |
| isLocatedIn |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| isPartOfRegion | Northeastern Iowa ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Iowa ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeEntity | Howard County, Iowa ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | Northeastern Iowa ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Central Time Zone ⓘ |
| locatedOnContinent | North America ⓘ |
| partOf |
Howard County, Iowa
ⓘ
Midwestern United States ⓘ State of Iowa ⓘ
linked to:
Iowa
|
| usesTimeZone |
Central Daylight Time
ⓘ
linked to:
Central Time Zone
Central Standard Time ⓘ
linked to:
Central Time Zone
|
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: Lime Springs, Iowa Description of subject: Lime Springs, Iowa is a small rural city in northeastern Iowa known for its close-knit community and agricultural surroundings.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Lime Springs, Iowa
linked to: Lime Springs, Iowa