Hackleburg, Alabama
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Hackleburg, Alabama is a small rural town in northwestern Alabama known historically for its logging industry and for being heavily impacted by the 2011 tornado outbreak.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Hackleburg, Alabama canonical | 2 |
| Hackleburg town council | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8848898 — 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: Hackleburg, Alabama Context triple: [Marion County, Alabama, containsSettlement, Hackleburg, Alabama]
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A.
Bridgeport, Alabama
Bridgeport, Alabama is a small city in northeastern Alabama near the Tennessee border, known as the gateway community to the prehistoric Russell Cave National Monument.
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B.
Riverview, Alabama
Riverview, Alabama is a small town located in Escambia County in the southern part of the U.S. state of Alabama.
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C.
Hanceville, Alabama
Hanceville, Alabama is a small city in Cullman County best known as a Catholic pilgrimage destination due to the presence of the Shrine of the Most Blessed Sacrament and the associated religious community founded by Mother Angelica.
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D.
Hamilton, Alabama
Hamilton, Alabama is a small city in northwestern Alabama that serves as the administrative and commercial center of Marion County.
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E.
Kingston, Alabama
Kingston, Alabama is an unincorporated rural community located in Shelby County in the central part of the state.
- 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: Hackleburg, Alabama Target entity description: Hackleburg, Alabama is a small rural town in northwestern Alabama known historically for its logging industry and for being heavily impacted by the 2011 tornado outbreak.
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A.
Bridgeport, Alabama
Bridgeport, Alabama is a small city in northeastern Alabama near the Tennessee border, known as the gateway community to the prehistoric Russell Cave National Monument.
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B.
Riverview, Alabama
Riverview, Alabama is a small town located in Escambia County in the southern part of the U.S. state of Alabama.
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C.
Hanceville, Alabama
Hanceville, Alabama is a small city in Cullman County best known as a Catholic pilgrimage destination due to the presence of the Shrine of the Most Blessed Sacrament and the associated religious community founded by Mother Angelica.
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D.
Hamilton, Alabama
Hamilton, Alabama is a small city in northwestern Alabama that serves as the administrative and commercial center of Marion County.
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E.
Kingston, Alabama
Kingston, Alabama is an unincorporated rural community located in Shelby County in the central part of the state.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | town ⓘ |
| areaCode |
205
ⓘ
659 ⓘ |
| climate | humid subtropical climate ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| countrySubdivision | Southern United States ⓘ |
| county | Marion County, Alabama NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| demographicCharacteristic | predominantly small-town population density ⓘ |
| elevationAboveSeaLevel | approximately 892 feet ⓘ |
| governingBody |
Hackleburg town council
ⓘ
linked to:
Hackleburg, Alabama
|
| hasMunicipalGovernmentType | mayor–council government ⓘ |
| hasRebuildingEffort | post-2011 tornado reconstruction ⓘ |
| hasSchoolSystem | Hackleburg schools within Marion County School District ⓘ |
| historicalEconomicBase |
logging
ⓘ
timber industry ⓘ |
| isRural | true ⓘ |
| knownFor |
damage in the 2011 tornado outbreak
ⓘ
logging industry ⓘ rural character ⓘ |
| locatedInPhysiographicRegion |
Appalachian Plateau
ⓘ
southern Appalachian region ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion |
North Alabama
ⓘ
linked to:
Northern Alabama
northwestern Alabama ⓘ
linked to:
northwest Alabama
|
| locatedInTimeZone | Central Time Zone ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Alabama State Route 172
ⓘ
U.S. Route 43 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableDisaster | destruction of residential and commercial areas in 2011 tornado ⓘ |
| partOf |
Marion County, Alabama
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
United States Census-designated places in Alabama ⓘ |
| populationTrend | small population ⓘ |
| postalCode | 35564 ⓘ |
| rebuildingFocus | schools and local businesses after 2011 tornado ⓘ |
| region |
Northwest Alabama
ⓘ
linked to:
northwest Alabama
|
| regionType | rural community ⓘ |
| significantEvent |
2011 Hackleburg tornado
ⓘ
2011 Super Outbreak ⓘ
linked to:
2011 tornado outbreak sequence
|
| state | Alabama ⓘ |
| timeZoneDST |
Central Daylight Time
ⓘ
linked to:
Central Time Zone
|
| tornadoEventDate | April 27, 2011 ⓘ |
| tornadoEventDescription | large portions of the town were destroyed in the 2011 tornado outbreak ⓘ |
| tornadoEventFatalities | multiple fatalities ⓘ |
| tornadoEventIntensity | EF5 ⓘ |
| transportation | served by regional highways rather than interstates ⓘ |
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: Hackleburg, Alabama Description of subject: Hackleburg, Alabama is a small rural town in northwestern Alabama known historically for its logging industry and for being heavily impacted by the 2011 tornado outbreak.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.