Marengo
E401264
Marengo is a small city in eastern Iowa that serves as the county seat of Iowa County and lies within the Iowa River valley.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Marengo canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3956921 — 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: Marengo Context triple: [Iowa River, passesNear, Marengo]
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A.
Battle of Marengo
The Battle of Marengo was a decisive 1800 engagement in northern Italy during the War of the Second Coalition, where Napoleon Bonaparte’s forces defeated the Austrians and secured French dominance in Italy.
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B.
Austerlitz
Austerlitz is the original family surname of legendary American dancer, singer, and actor Fred Astaire.
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C.
Battle of Ulm
The Battle of Ulm was a decisive 1805 campaign in which Napoleon’s Grande Armée encircled and forced the surrender of a large Austrian force, paving the way for French dominance in Central Europe during the War of the Third Coalition.
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D.
Chesme Column
The Chesme Column is a commemorative monument in Saint Petersburg, Russia, erected to honor Russian naval victories in the Russo-Turkish War of 1768–1774.
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E.
Battle of Hohenlinden
The Battle of Hohenlinden was a major 1800 clash in Bavaria during the French Revolutionary Wars, where General Moreau’s French forces decisively defeated the Austrians, helping secure French dominance in Central Europe.
- 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: Marengo Target entity description: Marengo is a small city in eastern Iowa that serves as the county seat of Iowa County and lies within the Iowa River valley.
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A.
Battle of Marengo
The Battle of Marengo was a decisive 1800 engagement in northern Italy during the War of the Second Coalition, where Napoleon Bonaparte’s forces defeated the Austrians and secured French dominance in Italy.
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B.
Austerlitz
Austerlitz is the original family surname of legendary American dancer, singer, and actor Fred Astaire.
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C.
Battle of Ulm
The Battle of Ulm was a decisive 1805 campaign in which Napoleon’s Grande Armée encircled and forced the surrender of a large Austrian force, paving the way for French dominance in Central Europe during the War of the Third Coalition.
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D.
Chesme Column
The Chesme Column is a commemorative monument in Saint Petersburg, Russia, erected to honor Russian naval victories in the Russo-Turkish War of 1768–1774.
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E.
Battle of Hohenlinden
The Battle of Hohenlinden was a major 1800 clash in Bavaria during the French Revolutionary Wars, where General Moreau’s French forces decisively defeated the Austrians, helping secure French dominance in Central Europe.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (23)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
city
ⓘ
county seat ⓘ |
| administrativeFunction | seat of county government for Iowa County, Iowa ⓘ |
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| county | Iowa County, Iowa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| geographicFeature | river valley ⓘ |
| hasJurisdiction |
Iowa County, Iowa
ⓘ
surface form:
Iowa County, Iowa (county government offices)
|
| hasName | Marengo self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| hasRiver | Iowa River ⓘ |
| inland | true ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Iowa River valley
ⓘ
Midwestern United States ⓘ eastern Iowa ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Iowa River ⓘ |
| partOf |
Iowa County, Iowa
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Iowa ⓘ
surface form:
State of Iowa
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| role | county seat of Iowa County, Iowa ⓘ |
| settlementType | small city ⓘ |
| state | Iowa ⓘ |
| 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: Marengo Description of subject: Marengo is a small city in eastern Iowa that serves as the county seat of Iowa County and lies within the Iowa River valley.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.