Starkville, Mississippi
E173733
Starkville, Mississippi is a college town in eastern Mississippi best known as the home of Mississippi State University and a regional hub for education, research, and athletics.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Starkville, Mississippi canonical | 35 |
| Starkville | 6 |
| Starkville, Mississippi, United States | 3 |
| Starkville campus | 1 |
| Starkville, Mississippi (part) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1516723 — 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: Starkville, Mississippi Context triple: [Columbus, Mississippi, regionalPartnerWith, Starkville, Mississippi]
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A.
Meridian, Mississippi
Meridian, Mississippi is a historic city in eastern Mississippi known as a regional transportation hub and cultural center.
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B.
Tupelo, Mississippi
Tupelo, Mississippi is a small city in northeastern Mississippi best known as the birthplace of Elvis Presley and for its role in Civil War and blues history.
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C.
Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Tuscaloosa, Alabama is a city in western Alabama known as the home of the University of Alabama and a regional center for education, healthcare, and industry.
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D.
Hattiesburg, Mississippi
Hattiesburg, Mississippi is a mid-sized city in southern Mississippi known as a regional hub for education, healthcare, and transportation, home to the University of Southern Mississippi and a historic downtown.
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E.
Jackson, Mississippi
Jackson, Mississippi is the capital and largest city of Mississippi, historically significant as a major center of activism and conflict during the American civil rights movement.
- 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: Starkville, Mississippi Target entity description: Starkville, Mississippi is a college town in eastern Mississippi best known as the home of Mississippi State University and a regional hub for education, research, and athletics.
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A.
Meridian, Mississippi
Meridian, Mississippi is a historic city in eastern Mississippi known as a regional transportation hub and cultural center.
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B.
Tupelo, Mississippi
Tupelo, Mississippi is a small city in northeastern Mississippi best known as the birthplace of Elvis Presley and for its role in Civil War and blues history.
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C.
Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Tuscaloosa, Alabama is a city in western Alabama known as the home of the University of Alabama and a regional center for education, healthcare, and industry.
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D.
Hattiesburg, Mississippi
Hattiesburg, Mississippi is a mid-sized city in southern Mississippi known as a regional hub for education, healthcare, and transportation, home to the University of Southern Mississippi and a historic downtown.
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E.
Jackson, Mississippi
Jackson, Mississippi is the capital and largest city of Mississippi, historically significant as a major center of activism and conflict during the American civil rights movement.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Starkville, Mississippi Description of subject: Starkville, Mississippi is a college town in eastern Mississippi best known as the home of Mississippi State University and a regional hub for education, research, and athletics.
Referenced by (46)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Columbus, Mississippi
this entity surface form:
Starkville campus
this entity surface form:
Starkville, Mississippi, United States
this entity surface form:
Starkville
this entity surface form:
Starkville
subject surface form:
Eastern Mississippi
this entity surface form:
Starkville, Mississippi, United States
this entity surface form:
Starkville
this entity surface form:
Starkville
this entity surface form:
Starkville, Mississippi (part)
subject surface form:
College of Education at Mississippi State University
subject surface form:
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (Mississippi State University)
subject surface form:
College of Veterinary Medicine (Mississippi State University)
subject surface form:
College of Arts and Sciences (Mississippi State University)
subject surface form:
College of Business at Mississippi State University
this entity surface form:
Starkville
this entity surface form:
Starkville
this entity surface form:
Starkville, Mississippi, United States