Panama, Iowa
E157805
Panama, Iowa is a small rural city located in western Iowa within Shelby County.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Panama, Iowa canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1385815 — 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: Panama, Iowa Context triple: [Shelby County, Iowa, hasCity, Panama, Iowa]
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A.
Hancock, Iowa
Hancock, Iowa is a small rural city located in western Iowa within Pottawattamie County.
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B.
Paullina, Iowa
Paullina, Iowa is a small rural city in northwestern Iowa known for its agricultural community and small-town character.
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C.
Macedonia, Iowa
Macedonia, Iowa is a small rural city located in western Iowa within Pottawattamie County.
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D.
Columbia, Iowa
Columbia, Iowa is a small unincorporated rural community located in Marion County in the U.S. state of Iowa.
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E.
Swan, Iowa
Swan, Iowa is a small rural city located in Marion County in the south-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: Panama, Iowa Target entity description: Panama, Iowa is a small rural city located in western Iowa within Shelby County.
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A.
Hancock, Iowa
Hancock, Iowa is a small rural city located in western Iowa within Pottawattamie County.
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B.
Paullina, Iowa
Paullina, Iowa is a small rural city in northwestern Iowa known for its agricultural community and small-town character.
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C.
Macedonia, Iowa
Macedonia, Iowa is a small rural city located in western Iowa within Pottawattamie County.
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D.
Columbia, Iowa
Columbia, Iowa is a small unincorporated rural community located in Marion County in the U.S. state of Iowa.
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E.
Swan, Iowa
Swan, Iowa is a small rural city located in Marion County in the south-central part of the state.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
city
ⓘ
human settlement ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| countryCode | US ⓘ |
| county | Shelby County, Iowa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| FIPSCode | 19-61235 ⓘ |
| GNISFeatureID | 0460403 ⓘ |
| hasAreaCode | 712 ⓘ |
| hasGovernmentType | municipal government ⓘ |
| hasPostalCode | 51562 ⓘ |
| hasRegion |
Midwest
ⓘ
linked to:
Midwestern United States
|
| hasSettlementType | rural city ⓘ |
| hasSubdivisionName |
Iowa
ⓘ
Shelby County ⓘ |
| hasSubdivisionType |
county
ⓘ
state ⓘ |
| isRural | true ⓘ |
| locatedIn | western Iowa ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Central Time Zone ⓘ |
| locatedOnContinent | North America ⓘ |
| partOf |
Iowa
ⓘ
Midwestern United States ⓘ Shelby County, Iowa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| state | Iowa ⓘ |
| 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: Panama, Iowa Description of subject: Panama, Iowa is a small rural city located in western Iowa within Shelby County.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Shelby County