McAlester
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McAlester is a regional hub city in southeastern Oklahoma known for its role as a commercial center and for housing the Oklahoma State Penitentiary.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| McAlester, Oklahoma | 8 |
| McAlester canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T497778 — 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: McAlester Context triple: [eastern Oklahoma, hasMajorCity, McAlester]
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A.
Lawton
Lawton is a mid-sized city in southwestern Oklahoma known as a regional economic and cultural center near Fort Sill and the Wichita Mountains.
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B.
Shattuck, Oklahoma
Shattuck, Oklahoma is a small town in northwestern Oklahoma known for its rural character and historic windmill park.
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C.
Muskogee
Muskogee is a city in eastern Oklahoma known historically as a regional center for Native American culture, rail transport, and river commerce along the Arkansas River.
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D.
Enid
Enid is a feminine given name of Welsh origin, traditionally associated with meanings like "soul" or "life."
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E.
Topeka, Kansas
Topeka, Kansas is the capital city of the U.S. state of Kansas, historically significant as the community at the center of the landmark school desegregation case Brown v. Board of Education.
- 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: McAlester Target entity description: McAlester is a regional hub city in southeastern Oklahoma known for its role as a commercial center and for housing the Oklahoma State Penitentiary.
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A.
Lawton
Lawton is a mid-sized city in southwestern Oklahoma known as a regional economic and cultural center near Fort Sill and the Wichita Mountains.
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B.
Shattuck, Oklahoma
Shattuck, Oklahoma is a small town in northwestern Oklahoma known for its rural character and historic windmill park.
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C.
Muskogee
Muskogee is a city in eastern Oklahoma known historically as a regional center for Native American culture, rail transport, and river commerce along the Arkansas River.
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D.
Enid
Enid is a feminine given name of Welsh origin, traditionally associated with meanings like "soul" or "life."
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E.
Topeka, Kansas
Topeka, Kansas is the capital city of the U.S. state of Kansas, historically significant as the community at the center of the landmark school desegregation case Brown v. Board of Education.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
city
ⓘ
human settlement ⓘ |
| climate | humid subtropical climate ⓘ |
| contains | Oklahoma State Penitentiary ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| countrySubdivision |
State of Oklahoma
ⓘ
linked to:
U.S. state of Oklahoma
|
| governmentJurisdiction | Pittsburg County government ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
regional trade center
ⓘ
service center for surrounding rural areas ⓘ |
| hasIndustry |
corrections-related employment
ⓘ
energy-related activities ⓘ retail trade ⓘ services ⓘ |
| hasNearbyFeature | lakes and reservoirs in southeastern Oklahoma ⓘ |
| hasPostalCodeType | ZIP code ⓘ |
| knownFor | Oklahoma State Penitentiary ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Oklahoma
ⓘ
Pittsburg County, Oklahoma ⓘ U.S. Great Plains region ⓘ
linked to:
Great Plains
United States Midwest-South transition zone ⓘ United States South ⓘ
linked to:
Southern United States
|
| partOf | southeastern Oklahoma ⓘ |
| roadAccess | served by U.S. highways ⓘ |
| role |
commercial center
ⓘ
regional hub city ⓘ |
| state | Oklahoma ⓘ |
| timeZone |
America/Chicago
ⓘ
Central Time Zone ⓘ |
| transportationRole | regional transportation hub ⓘ |
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: McAlester Description of subject: McAlester is a regional hub city in southeastern Oklahoma known for its role as a commercial center and for housing the Oklahoma State Penitentiary.
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: McAlester
linked to: McAlester
linked to: McAlester
linked to: McAlester
linked to: McAlester
linked to: McAlester
subject linked to:
Pittsburg County courthouse
linked to: McAlester
linked to: McAlester