Alabama
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Alabama is a southeastern U.S. state known for its significant role in American history, diverse landscapes from Gulf Coast beaches to Appalachian foothills, and major contributions to industry, agriculture, and the civil rights movement.
All labels observed (15)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Alabama canonical | 3,209 |
| State of Alabama | 257 |
| U.S. state of Alabama | 34 |
| state of Alabama | 22 |
| US-AL | 13 |
| Alabama, United States | 9 |
| Bama | 3 |
| Georgia | 2 |
| United States state of Alabama | 2 |
| Alabama (across the Chattahoochee River) | 1 |
| Alabama state line | 1 |
| Alabama state troopers | 1 |
| Cotton State | 1 |
| N.D. Ala. | 1 |
| S.D. Ala. | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6851 — 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: Alabama Context triple: [Tennessee Valley Authority, regionServed, Alabama]
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A.
Georgia
Georgia is a southeastern U.S. state known for its diverse landscapes, historic cities like Atlanta and Savannah, and significant roles in both the Civil War and the civil rights movement.
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B.
Tennessee
Tennessee is a southeastern U.S. state known for its diverse landscapes from the Appalachian Mountains to the Mississippi River, and for major cultural centers like Nashville and Memphis that have shaped American music and history.
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C.
Texas
Texas is the second-largest U.S. state by both area and population, known for its diverse landscapes, major cities like Houston and Dallas, and significant cultural and economic influence.
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D.
Florida
Florida is a southeastern U.S. state known for its warm climate, extensive beaches, tourism industry centered on attractions like Walt Disney World, and significant cultural and economic influence.
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E.
Alaska
Alaska is the largest and one of the most sparsely populated U.S. states, known for its vast wilderness, Arctic and sub-Arctic climate, abundant natural resources, and rich Indigenous cultures.
- 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: Alabama Target entity description: Alabama is a southeastern U.S. state known for its significant role in American history, diverse landscapes from Gulf Coast beaches to Appalachian foothills, and major contributions to industry, agriculture, and the civil rights movement.
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A.
Georgia
Georgia is a southeastern U.S. state known for its diverse landscapes, historic cities like Atlanta and Savannah, and significant roles in both the Civil War and the civil rights movement.
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B.
Tennessee
Tennessee is a southeastern U.S. state known for its diverse landscapes from the Appalachian Mountains to the Mississippi River, and for major cultural centers like Nashville and Memphis that have shaped American music and history.
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C.
Texas
Texas is the second-largest U.S. state by both area and population, known for its diverse landscapes, major cities like Houston and Dallas, and significant cultural and economic influence.
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D.
Florida
Florida is a southeastern U.S. state known for its warm climate, extensive beaches, tourism industry centered on attractions like Walt Disney World, and significant cultural and economic influence.
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E.
Alaska
Alaska is the largest and one of the most sparsely populated U.S. states, known for its vast wilderness, Arctic and sub-Arctic climate, abundant natural resources, and rich Indigenous cultures.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (388)
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: Alabama Description of subject: Alabama is a southeastern U.S. state known for its significant role in American history, diverse landscapes from Gulf Coast beaches to Appalachian foothills, and major contributions to industry, agriculture, and the civil rights movement.
Referenced by (3,557)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Birmingham, Alabama, United States
linked to: Alabama
linked to: Alabama
subject linked to:
Great Migration of African Americans out of the region
subject linked to:
U.S. state of Georgia
linked to: Alabama
linked to: Alabama
linked to: Alabama
linked to: Alabama