Edgerton, Platte County, Missouri, United States
E796228
Edgerton, Platte County, Missouri, United States, is a small Midwestern town best known as the birthplace of cartoonist Jim Davis, creator of the comic strip "Garfield."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Edgerton, Platte County, Missouri, United States canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9392088 — 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: Edgerton, Platte County, Missouri, United States Context triple: [Jim Davis, birthPlace, Edgerton, Platte County, Missouri, United States]
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A.
Mora, Missouri, United States
Mora, Missouri, United States is a small unincorporated community in Benton County best known as the birthplace of billionaire sports and real estate magnate Stan Kroenke.
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B.
Edina, Missouri
Edina, Missouri is a small rural city that serves as the county seat of Knox County in northeastern Missouri.
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C.
Ewing, Missouri
Ewing, Missouri is a small rural community located in Lewis County in the northeastern part of the state.
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D.
Johnson County, Missouri
Johnson County, Missouri is a largely rural county in west-central Missouri known for its agricultural economy and for being home to the city of Warrensburg and the University of Central Missouri.
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E.
Douglas County, Missouri
Douglas County, Missouri is a largely rural county in the Ozarks region known for its forests, rolling hills, and small communities centered around its county seat, Ava.
- 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: Edgerton, Platte County, Missouri, United States Target entity description: Edgerton, Platte County, Missouri, United States, is a small Midwestern town best known as the birthplace of cartoonist Jim Davis, creator of the comic strip "Garfield."
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A.
Mora, Missouri, United States
Mora, Missouri, United States is a small unincorporated community in Benton County best known as the birthplace of billionaire sports and real estate magnate Stan Kroenke.
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B.
Edina, Missouri
Edina, Missouri is a small rural city that serves as the county seat of Knox County in northeastern Missouri.
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C.
Ewing, Missouri
Ewing, Missouri is a small rural community located in Lewis County in the northeastern part of the state.
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D.
Johnson County, Missouri
Johnson County, Missouri is a largely rural county in west-central Missouri known for its agricultural economy and for being home to the city of Warrensburg and the University of Central Missouri.
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E.
Douglas County, Missouri
Douglas County, Missouri is a largely rural county in the Ozarks region known for its forests, rolling hills, and small communities centered around its county seat, Ava.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
city
ⓘ
comic strip ⓘ municipality ⓘ person ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Edgerton, Platte County, Missouri, United States ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| creator |
Jim Davis (cartoonist)
ⓘ
linked to:
Jim Davis
|
| governedBy | city government ⓘ |
| hasAreaCode | 816 ⓘ |
| hasBirthplaceOf |
Jim Davis (cartoonist)
ⓘ
linked to:
Jim Davis
|
| hasClimate | humid continental climate ⓘ |
| hasDaylightSavingTime | Central Daylight Time ⓘ |
| hasOfficialLanguage | English ⓘ |
| hasPostalCodeType | ZIP code ⓘ |
| hasTimezone | Central Time Zone ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Midwestern United States
ⓘ
Missouri ⓘ Platte County, Missouri ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | UTC−06:00 ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZoneDST | UTC−05:00 ⓘ |
| locatedOnContinent | North America ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Edgerton ⓘ |
| notableWork | Garfield ⓘ |
| occupation | cartoonist ⓘ |
| partOf |
Kansas City metropolitan area
ⓘ
Platte County, Missouri ⓘ |
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: Edgerton, Platte County, Missouri, United States Description of subject: Edgerton, Platte County, Missouri, United States, is a small Midwestern town best known as the birthplace of cartoonist Jim Davis, creator of the comic strip "Garfield."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Edgerton, Platte County, Missouri, United States