MO
E463440
MO is the U.S. Postal Service abbreviation for the state of Missouri.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4714832 — 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: MO Context triple: [Interstate 49, stateAbbreviation, MO]
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A.
MO
MO is the two-letter ISO 3166 country code assigned to the Macao Special Administrative Region of China.
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B.
MN
MN is the vehicle registration code used on license plates for vehicles registered in Douglas and the rest of the Isle of Man.
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C.
MA
MA is the stock ticker symbol for Mastercard Incorporated, a leading global payments and financial services company.
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D.
MA
MA is the two-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code assigned to Morocco.
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E.
Nevada, Missouri
Nevada, Missouri is a small city in western Missouri that serves as the county seat and regional hub for Vernon County.
- 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: MO Target entity description: MO is the U.S. Postal Service abbreviation for the state of Missouri.
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A.
MO
MO is the two-letter ISO 3166 country code assigned to the Macao Special Administrative Region of China.
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B.
MN
MN is the vehicle registration code used on license plates for vehicles registered in Douglas and the rest of the Isle of Man.
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C.
MA
MA is the stock ticker symbol for Mastercard Incorporated, a leading global payments and financial services company.
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D.
MA
MA is the two-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code assigned to Morocco.
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E.
Nevada, Missouri
Nevada, Missouri is a small city in western Missouri that serves as the county seat and regional hub for Vernon County.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United States Postal Service state abbreviation
ⓘ
postal abbreviation ⓘ |
| appliesTo | U.S. state ⓘ |
| category | USPS two-letter state abbreviations ⓘ |
| character1 | M ⓘ |
| character2 | O ⓘ |
| codeFor | Missouri ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| denotesSubdivisionOf | United States of America ⓘ |
| format | two uppercase letters ⓘ |
| hasLength | 2 ⓘ |
| introducedBy | United States Postal Service ⓘ |
| isAmbiguousWithinUSStates | false ⓘ |
| isCaseSensitive | true ⓘ |
| isPartOf | USPS addressing standards ⓘ |
| isUppercase | true ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| refersTo | Missouri ⓘ |
| regionType | state ⓘ |
| relatedAbbreviationSystem | USPS state abbreviations ⓘ |
| standardizationAuthority | United States Postal Service ⓘ |
| standardized | true ⓘ |
| twoLetterCode | MO ⓘ |
| usedBy | United States Postal Service ⓘ |
| usedIn |
ZIP code addressing
ⓘ
mailing addresses ⓘ state designation on envelopes ⓘ |
| usedSinceCentury | 20th century ⓘ |
| writingSystem | Latin alphabet ⓘ |
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: MO Description of subject: MO is the U.S. Postal Service abbreviation for the state of Missouri.
Referenced by (33)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: MO
linked to: MO
linked to: MO
subject linked to:
Kentucky and Missouri
subject linked to:
United States state of Missouri
linked to: MO
subject linked to:
Maranello, Italy
subject linked to:
Bosworth, Missouri, United States