Affton, Missouri, United States
E387601
Affton, Missouri, United States is a suburban community in St. Louis County best known as the hometown of actor John Goodman.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Affton, Missouri, United States canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3802868 — 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: Affton, Missouri, United States Context triple: [John Goodman, placeOfBirth, Affton, Missouri, United States]
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A.
Ellis, Missouri
Ellis, Missouri is a small unincorporated community located in Vernon County in the western part of the U.S. state of Missouri.
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B.
Rinehart, Missouri
Rinehart, Missouri is a small unincorporated community located in Vernon County in the western part of the U.S. state of Missouri.
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C.
Mansfield, Missouri, United States
Mansfield, Missouri, United States, is a small town best known as the longtime home of author Laura Ingalls Wilder and her daughter Rose Wilder Lane, central figures in American pioneer literature.
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D.
Freeman, Missouri
Freeman, Missouri is a small rural city located in Cass County in western Missouri, United States.
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E.
West Plains, Missouri, United States
West Plains, Missouri, United States, is a small city in southern Missouri known as the birthplace of actor and entertainer Dick Van Dyke.
- 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: Affton, Missouri, United States Target entity description: Affton, Missouri, United States is a suburban community in St. Louis County best known as the hometown of actor John Goodman.
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A.
Ellis, Missouri
Ellis, Missouri is a small unincorporated community located in Vernon County in the western part of the U.S. state of Missouri.
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B.
Rinehart, Missouri
Rinehart, Missouri is a small unincorporated community located in Vernon County in the western part of the U.S. state of Missouri.
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C.
Mansfield, Missouri, United States
Mansfield, Missouri, United States, is a small town best known as the longtime home of author Laura Ingalls Wilder and her daughter Rose Wilder Lane, central figures in American pioneer literature.
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D.
Freeman, Missouri
Freeman, Missouri is a small rural city located in Cass County in western Missouri, United States.
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E.
West Plains, Missouri, United States
West Plains, Missouri, United States, is a small city in southern Missouri known as the birthplace of actor and entertainer Dick Van Dyke.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (53)
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: Affton, Missouri, United States Description of subject: Affton, Missouri, United States is a suburban community in St. Louis County best known as the hometown of actor John Goodman.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
John Goodman