New Madrid County
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New Madrid County is a rural county in southeastern Missouri known for its location along the Mississippi River and its association with the historic New Madrid earthquakes of 1811–1812.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| New Madrid County canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4829712 — 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: New Madrid County Context triple: [Missouri Bootheel, contains, New Madrid County]
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A.
Sumner County
Sumner County is a county in northern Middle Tennessee, known for its suburban communities, historic sites, and proximity to the Nashville metropolitan area.
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B.
Woodward County
Woodward County is a largely rural county in northwestern Oklahoma known for its agricultural economy and role as a regional trade and service center.
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C.
Pickett County
Pickett County is a small, rural county in northern Tennessee known for its scenic Cumberland Plateau landscapes and outdoor recreation opportunities near Dale Hollow Lake.
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D.
Stephenson County
Stephenson County is a county in northern Illinois known for its agricultural landscape, small towns, and historic connection to figures like Jane Addams, who was born in Cedarville.
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E.
Boone County
Boone County is a rural county in southern West Virginia known historically for its coal mining communities and Appalachian landscape.
- 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: New Madrid County Target entity description: New Madrid County is a rural county in southeastern Missouri known for its location along the Mississippi River and its association with the historic New Madrid earthquakes of 1811–1812.
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A.
Sumner County
Sumner County is a county in northern Middle Tennessee, known for its suburban communities, historic sites, and proximity to the Nashville metropolitan area.
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B.
Woodward County
Woodward County is a largely rural county in northwestern Oklahoma known for its agricultural economy and role as a regional trade and service center.
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C.
Pickett County
Pickett County is a small, rural county in northern Tennessee known for its scenic Cumberland Plateau landscapes and outdoor recreation opportunities near Dale Hollow Lake.
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D.
Stephenson County
Stephenson County is a county in northern Illinois known for its agricultural landscape, small towns, and historic connection to figures like Jane Addams, who was born in Cedarville.
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E.
Boone County
Boone County is a rural county in southern West Virginia known historically for its coal mining communities and Appalachian landscape.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
county
ⓘ
county of Missouri ⓘ |
| borders | Mississippi River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| borderType | river border ⓘ |
| characterizedAs | rural county ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| countrySubdivision | State of Missouri NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countySeat | New Madrid NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| geologicalRegion | New Madrid Seismic Zone NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasEconomicActivity |
agriculture
ⓘ
river transportation ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
floodplain areas
ⓘ
seismic risk ⓘ |
| hasGovernmentType | county government ⓘ |
| hasHistoricalEvent | 1811–1812 New Madrid earthquakes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
New Madrid earthquakes of 1811–1812
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
seismic activity in the New Madrid Seismic Zone ⓘ |
| largestCity | New Madrid NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Mississippi River Valley
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Missouri ⓘ United States Midwest ⓘ southeastern Missouri NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Central Time Zone ⓘ |
| locatedOnRiver | Mississippi River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedAfter | New Madrid, Missouri NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf |
Missouri Bootheel
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
United States county system ⓘ |
| region | Southeast Missouri NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| state | Missouri ⓘ |
| subdivisionType | county ⓘ |
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: New Madrid County Description of subject: New Madrid County is a rural county in southeastern Missouri known for its location along the Mississippi River and its association with the historic New Madrid earthquakes of 1811–1812.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.