Goldsboro, North Carolina
E324840
Goldsboro, North Carolina is a small city in eastern North Carolina known as the home of Seymour Johnson Air Force Base and a regional center for agriculture and industry.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Goldsboro, North Carolina canonical | 9 |
| Goldsboro metropolitan area | 1 |
| Goldsboro, North Carolina metropolitan area | 1 |
| Goldsboro, North Carolina, United States | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2858092 — 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: Goldsboro, North Carolina Context triple: [U.S. Route 70, passesNear, Goldsboro, North Carolina]
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A.
Goldston, North Carolina
Goldston, North Carolina is a small rural town in Chatham County known for its agricultural roots and close-knit community.
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B.
Newton, North Carolina
Newton, North Carolina is a small city in Catawba County that serves as the county seat and lies within the Piedmont region of the state.
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C.
Graham, North Carolina
Graham, North Carolina is a small city in the Piedmont region that serves as the county seat of Alamance County.
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D.
St. Pauls, North Carolina
St. Pauls, North Carolina is a small town in Robeson County that serves as one of the communities associated with the Lumbee Native American population.
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E.
Havelock, North Carolina
Havelock, North Carolina is a small city in Craven County best known as the home of Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point and its associated military aviation community.
- 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: Goldsboro, North Carolina Target entity description: Goldsboro, North Carolina is a small city in eastern North Carolina known as the home of Seymour Johnson Air Force Base and a regional center for agriculture and industry.
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A.
Goldston, North Carolina
Goldston, North Carolina is a small rural town in Chatham County known for its agricultural roots and close-knit community.
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B.
Newton, North Carolina
Newton, North Carolina is a small city in Catawba County that serves as the county seat and lies within the Piedmont region of the state.
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C.
Graham, North Carolina
Graham, North Carolina is a small city in the Piedmont region that serves as the county seat of Alamance County.
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D.
St. Pauls, North Carolina
St. Pauls, North Carolina is a small town in Robeson County that serves as one of the communities associated with the Lumbee Native American population.
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E.
Havelock, North Carolina
Havelock, North Carolina is a small city in Craven County best known as the home of Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point and its associated military aviation community.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
city
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municipality ⓘ |
| areaCode |
919
ⓘ
984 ⓘ |
| climate | humid subtropical climate ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| countrySubdivision |
Southern United States
ⓘ
surface form:
Southeastern United States
|
| county | Wayne County, North Carolina NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| demographicsCharacteristic | small city population relative to major North Carolina cities ⓘ |
| elevation | approximately 108 feet ⓘ |
| FIPSCode | 37-27300 ⓘ |
| GNISFeatureID | 2403710 ⓘ |
| governingBody | Goldsboro City Council ⓘ |
| governmentType | council–manager government ⓘ |
| hasAirport | Wayne Executive Jetport (nearby county airport) ⓘ |
| hasHigherEducationInstitution | Wayne Community College ⓘ |
| hasHistoricDistrict | Downtown Goldsboro Historic District ⓘ |
| hasRiver | Neuse River ⓘ |
| incorporatedAsCity | 19th century ⓘ |
| isCountySeatOf | Wayne County, North Carolina NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Seymour Johnson Air Force Base
ⓘ
regional agriculture ⓘ regional industry ⓘ |
| locatedIn | eastern North Carolina ⓘ |
| locatedInMetropolitanArea |
Goldsboro, North Carolina
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Goldsboro, North Carolina metropolitan area
|
| locatedOn | Neuse River ⓘ |
| majorMilitaryInstallation | Seymour Johnson Air Force Base ⓘ |
| militaryRole | home to 4th Fighter Wing at Seymour Johnson AFB ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Goldsborough family ⓘ |
| nearbyCity |
Greenville, North Carolina
ⓘ
Kinston, North Carolina, United States ⓘ
surface form:
Kinston, North Carolina
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
Raleigh, North Carolina
|
| notableEvent | proximity to 1961 Goldsboro B-52 crash ⓘ |
| partOf |
Research Triangle
ⓘ
surface form:
Research Triangle region (broad economic area)
|
| postalCodePrefix |
27530
ⓘ
27531 ⓘ 27534 ⓘ |
| primaryEconomicSectors |
agriculture
ⓘ
manufacturing ⓘ military-related services ⓘ |
| region |
North Carolina Coastal Plain
ⓘ
surface form:
Coastal Plain of North Carolina
|
| regionalRole | regional center for retail and services in Wayne County ⓘ |
| state | North Carolina ⓘ |
| timeZone | Eastern Time Zone ⓘ |
| timeZoneDST |
Eastern Time Zone
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surface form:
Eastern Daylight Time
|
| transportation |
U.S. Route 117
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
U.S. Route 13 NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 70 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Goldsboro, North Carolina Description of subject: Goldsboro, North Carolina is a small city in eastern North Carolina known as the home of Seymour Johnson Air Force Base and a regional center for agriculture and industry.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Goldsboro, North Carolina, United States
subject surface form:
Kinston, North Carolina
this entity surface form:
Goldsboro metropolitan area
Goldsboro, North Carolina
→
locatedInMetropolitanArea
→
Goldsboro, North Carolina
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
Goldsboro, North Carolina metropolitan area