Vernon, Alabama
E751571
Vernon, Alabama is a small city in western Alabama that serves as the administrative and commercial center of Lamar County.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Vernon, Alabama canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8297237 — 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: Vernon, Alabama Context triple: [Lamar County, Alabama, seat, Vernon, Alabama]
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A.
Vance, Alabama
Vance, Alabama is a small town in Tuscaloosa and Bibb counties best known as the site of a major Mercedes-Benz automobile manufacturing plant.
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B.
Vincent, Alabama
Vincent, Alabama is a small town in central Alabama known for its rural character and location within the Birmingham–Hoover metropolitan area.
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C.
Ensley, Alabama
Ensley, Alabama is a historic industrial neighborhood in Birmingham that developed as a major steelmaking and manufacturing center in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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D.
Odenville, Alabama
Odenville, Alabama is a small town in central Alabama known for its rural character and location within the Birmingham metropolitan area.
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E.
Waverly, Alabama
Waverly, Alabama is a small rural town in eastern Alabama known for its tight-knit community and historic Southern character.
- 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: Vernon, Alabama Target entity description: Vernon, Alabama is a small city in western Alabama that serves as the administrative and commercial center of Lamar County.
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A.
Vance, Alabama
Vance, Alabama is a small town in Tuscaloosa and Bibb counties best known as the site of a major Mercedes-Benz automobile manufacturing plant.
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B.
Vincent, Alabama
Vincent, Alabama is a small town in central Alabama known for its rural character and location within the Birmingham–Hoover metropolitan area.
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C.
Ensley, Alabama
Ensley, Alabama is a historic industrial neighborhood in Birmingham that developed as a major steelmaking and manufacturing center in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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D.
Odenville, Alabama
Odenville, Alabama is a small town in central Alabama known for its rural character and location within the Birmingham metropolitan area.
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E.
Waverly, Alabama
Waverly, Alabama is a small rural town in eastern Alabama known for its tight-knit community and historic Southern character.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | city ⓘ |
| areaCode |
205
ⓘ
659 ⓘ |
| climate | humid subtropical climate ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| countrySubdivision |
Southeastern United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Southern United States
|
| county | Lamar County, Alabama NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| elevation | 361 feet ⓘ |
| FIPSCode | 01-78552 ⓘ |
| GNISFeatureID | 0153840 ⓘ |
| governmentType | mayor–council government ⓘ |
| hasFacility |
Lamar County Courthouse
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Vernon City Hall NERFINISHED ⓘ Vernon Public Library NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPostalCode | 35592 ⓘ |
| hasPublicSchoolSystem | Lamar County School District NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTransportation |
served by Alabama State Route 17
ⓘ
served by Alabama State Route 18 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isCountySeatOf | Lamar County, Alabama NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn | western Alabama ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | Northwest Alabama NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nearBorder | Mississippi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryEconomicRole | local trade and services center for Lamar County ⓘ |
| region | Appalachian foothills (broad region classification) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| role |
administrative center of Lamar County, Alabama
ⓘ
commercial center of Lamar County, Alabama ⓘ |
| state | Alabama ⓘ |
| timeZone | Central Time Zone ⓘ |
| timeZoneDST |
Central Daylight 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: Vernon, Alabama Description of subject: Vernon, Alabama is a small city in western Alabama that serves as the administrative and commercial center of Lamar County.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.