Vail, Iowa
E814734
Vail, Iowa is a small rural city located in western Iowa within Crawford County.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Vail, Iowa canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9683374 — 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: Vail, Iowa Context triple: [Crawford County, Iowa, hasCity, Vail, Iowa]
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A.
Villisca, Iowa
Villisca, Iowa is a small city in southwestern Iowa best known for the infamous 1912 Villisca axe murders and the historic house that remains a notable tourist attraction.
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B.
Vinton, Iowa
Vinton, Iowa is a small Midwestern city in Benton County known for its historic downtown and role as a local agricultural and community hub.
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C.
Havelock, Iowa
Havelock, Iowa is a small rural city in Pocahontas County in northwestern Iowa.
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D.
Loveland, Iowa
Loveland, Iowa is a small unincorporated rural community located in western Iowa near the Missouri River.
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E.
Waverly, Iowa
Waverly, Iowa is a small city in northeastern Iowa known as the county seat of Bremer County and home to Wartburg College.
- 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: Vail, Iowa Target entity description: Vail, Iowa is a small rural city located in western Iowa within Crawford County.
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A.
Villisca, Iowa
Villisca, Iowa is a small city in southwestern Iowa best known for the infamous 1912 Villisca axe murders and the historic house that remains a notable tourist attraction.
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B.
Vinton, Iowa
Vinton, Iowa is a small Midwestern city in Benton County known for its historic downtown and role as a local agricultural and community hub.
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C.
Havelock, Iowa
Havelock, Iowa is a small rural city in Pocahontas County in northwestern Iowa.
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D.
Loveland, Iowa
Loveland, Iowa is a small unincorporated rural community located in western Iowa near the Missouri River.
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E.
Waverly, Iowa
Waverly, Iowa is a small city in northeastern Iowa known as the county seat of Bremer County and home to Wartburg College.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
city
ⓘ
human settlement ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| countrySubdivision | Midwestern United States ⓘ |
| county | Crawford County, Iowa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| governmentType | city government ⓘ |
| hasAreaCode | 712 ⓘ |
| hasClimate | humid continental climate ⓘ |
| hasFeatureCode | PPL ⓘ |
| hasGNISFeatureClass | populated place ⓘ |
| hasLandUse | agricultural surroundings ⓘ |
| hasLocalEconomyType | rural and agriculture-related ⓘ |
| hasPostalCode | 51465 ⓘ |
| hasPrimaryLanguage | English ⓘ |
| hasRegion | Crawford County, Iowa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSettlementType | rural city ⓘ |
| isInland | true ⓘ |
| isRural | true ⓘ |
| isSmallCity | true ⓘ |
| locatedIn | western Iowa ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Central Time Zone ⓘ |
| locatedOnContinent | North America ⓘ |
| partOf |
Crawford County, Iowa
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
State of Iowa ⓘ
linked to:
Iowa
United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| roadNetwork | local and county roads ⓘ |
| state | Iowa ⓘ |
| timeZoneDST |
Central Daylight Time
ⓘ
linked to:
Central Time Zone
|
| usesMeasurementSystem | U.S. customary units ⓘ |
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: Vail, Iowa Description of subject: Vail, Iowa is a small rural city located in western Iowa within Crawford County.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.