Howard County, Iowa
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Howard County, Iowa is a rural county in northeastern Iowa known for its agricultural landscape and as the home of the city of Cresco.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Howard County, Iowa canonical | 52 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T56632 — 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: Howard County, Iowa Context triple: [Cresco, Iowa, county, Howard County, Iowa]
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Cedar County, Iowa
Cedar County, Iowa is a predominantly rural county in eastern Iowa known for its agricultural landscape and historic communities, including the birthplace of President Herbert Hoover in West Branch.
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Sioux County, Iowa
Sioux County, Iowa is a rural county in northwestern Iowa known for its strong Dutch-American heritage and agricultural economy.
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C.
Pottawattamie County, Iowa
Pottawattamie County, Iowa is a county in the southwestern part of the state, known for its county seat and largest city, Council Bluffs, which lies across the Missouri River from Omaha, Nebraska.
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D.
Johnson County, Iowa
Johnson County, Iowa is a county in eastern Iowa best known as the home of Iowa City and the University of Iowa.
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E.
Madera County
Madera County is a county in central California known for encompassing part of Yosemite National Park and serving as a gateway to the Sierra Nevada.
- 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: Howard County, Iowa Target entity description: Howard County, Iowa is a rural county in northeastern Iowa known for its agricultural landscape and as the home of the city of Cresco.
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A.
Cedar County, Iowa
Cedar County, Iowa is a predominantly rural county in eastern Iowa known for its agricultural landscape and historic communities, including the birthplace of President Herbert Hoover in West Branch.
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B.
Sioux County, Iowa
Sioux County, Iowa is a rural county in northwestern Iowa known for its strong Dutch-American heritage and agricultural economy.
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C.
Pottawattamie County, Iowa
Pottawattamie County, Iowa is a county in the southwestern part of the state, known for its county seat and largest city, Council Bluffs, which lies across the Missouri River from Omaha, Nebraska.
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D.
Johnson County, Iowa
Johnson County, Iowa is a county in eastern Iowa best known as the home of Iowa City and the University of Iowa.
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E.
Madera County
Madera County is a county in central California known for encompassing part of Yosemite National Park and serving as a gateway to the Sierra Nevada.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Howard County, Iowa Description of subject: Howard County, Iowa is a rural county in northeastern Iowa known for its agricultural landscape and as the home of the city of Cresco.
Referenced by (52)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Cresco, Iowa, United States
subject linked to:
Cresco, Iowa, United States
subject linked to:
Cresco, Iowa, United States
subject linked to:
Cresco, Iowa, United States