Sumiton, Alabama
E251912
Sumiton, Alabama is a small city in north-central Alabama known as a former coal-mining community within the Birmingham–Hoover metropolitan area.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sumiton, Alabama canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1202123 — 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: Sumiton, Alabama Context triple: [Walker County, Alabama, containsCity, Sumiton, Alabama]
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A.
Jemison, Alabama
Jemison, Alabama is a small city in central Alabama known for its rural character and location along Interstate 65 between Birmingham and Montgomery.
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B.
Sterrett, Alabama
Sterrett, Alabama is a small unincorporated community and rural residential area located in eastern Shelby County in central Alabama.
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C.
Tarrant, Alabama
Tarrant, Alabama is a small industrial city in Jefferson County, near Birmingham, known historically for its steel and manufacturing operations.
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D.
Vincent, Alabama
Vincent, Alabama is a small town in central Alabama known for its rural character and location within the Birmingham–Hoover metropolitan area.
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E.
Westover, Alabama
Westover, Alabama is a small town in central Alabama that forms part of the Birmingham–Hoover metropolitan area.
- 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: Sumiton, Alabama Target entity description: Sumiton, Alabama is a small city in north-central Alabama known as a former coal-mining community within the Birmingham–Hoover metropolitan area.
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A.
Jemison, Alabama
Jemison, Alabama is a small city in central Alabama known for its rural character and location along Interstate 65 between Birmingham and Montgomery.
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B.
Sterrett, Alabama
Sterrett, Alabama is a small unincorporated community and rural residential area located in eastern Shelby County in central Alabama.
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C.
Tarrant, Alabama
Tarrant, Alabama is a small industrial city in Jefferson County, near Birmingham, known historically for its steel and manufacturing operations.
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D.
Vincent, Alabama
Vincent, Alabama is a small town in central Alabama known for its rural character and location within the Birmingham–Hoover metropolitan area.
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E.
Westover, Alabama
Westover, Alabama is a small town in central Alabama that forms part of the Birmingham–Hoover metropolitan area.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
city
ⓘ
municipality ⓘ |
| areaCode |
205
ⓘ
659 ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| countrySubdivision |
Southern United States
ⓘ
surface form:
Southeastern United States
|
| county |
Jefferson County, Alabama
ⓘ
Walker County, Alabama ⓘ |
| elevationAboveSeaLevel |
157 meters
ⓘ
515 feet ⓘ |
| FIPSCode | 01-73952 ⓘ |
| GNISFeatureID | 0127964 ⓘ |
| governmentType | mayor–council government ⓘ |
| historicalIndustry | coal mining ⓘ |
| knownFor | former coal-mining community ⓘ |
| locatedInCountry |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| locatedInMetropolitanArea | Birmingham–Hoover metropolitan area ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | north-central Alabama ⓘ |
| locatedInState | Alabama ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | UTC−06:00 ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZoneDST | UTC−05:00 ⓘ |
| partOf |
Jefferson County, Alabama
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ Walker County, Alabama ⓘ |
| postalCode | 35148 ⓘ |
| settlementType | city ⓘ |
| state | Alabama ⓘ |
| timeZone | Central Time Zone ⓘ |
| timeZoneDST |
Central Time Zone
ⓘ
surface form:
Central Daylight Time
|
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: Sumiton, Alabama Description of subject: Sumiton, Alabama is a small city in north-central Alabama known as a former coal-mining community within the Birmingham–Hoover metropolitan area.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Walker County, Alabama