New Madrid, Missouri
E481794
New Madrid, Missouri is a small historic city in the southeastern corner of the state, best known for its proximity to the New Madrid Seismic Zone, the site of some of the most powerful earthquakes in U.S. history.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| New Madrid | 5 |
| New Madrid, Missouri canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4829727 — 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, Missouri Context triple: [Missouri Bootheel, contains, New Madrid, Missouri]
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A.
Hannibal, Missouri
Hannibal, Missouri is a historic Mississippi River town best known as Mark Twain’s boyhood home and the inspiration for the settings of "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" and "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn."
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B.
Columbia, Missouri
Columbia, Missouri is a mid-sized city in central Missouri best known as a vibrant college town home to the University of Missouri.
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C.
Emma, Missouri
Emma, Missouri is a small rural city located in western Missouri within the Kansas City metropolitan area.
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D.
Napoleon, Missouri
Napoleon, Missouri is a small town situated along the Missouri River in Lafayette County in the U.S. state of Missouri.
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E.
Ellis, Missouri
Ellis, Missouri is a small unincorporated community located in Vernon County in the western part of the U.S. state of Missouri.
- 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, Missouri Target entity description: New Madrid, Missouri is a small historic city in the southeastern corner of the state, best known for its proximity to the New Madrid Seismic Zone, the site of some of the most powerful earthquakes in U.S. history.
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A.
Hannibal, Missouri
Hannibal, Missouri is a historic Mississippi River town best known as Mark Twain’s boyhood home and the inspiration for the settings of "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" and "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn."
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B.
Columbia, Missouri
Columbia, Missouri is a mid-sized city in central Missouri best known as a vibrant college town home to the University of Missouri.
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C.
Emma, Missouri
Emma, Missouri is a small rural city located in western Missouri within the Kansas City metropolitan area.
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D.
Napoleon, Missouri
Napoleon, Missouri is a small town situated along the Missouri River in Lafayette County in the U.S. state of Missouri.
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E.
Ellis, Missouri
Ellis, Missouri is a small unincorporated community located in Vernon County in the western part of the U.S. state of Missouri.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
city
ⓘ
county seat ⓘ |
| borderedBy | Mississippi River to the east ⓘ |
| climate | humid subtropical climate ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| county | New Madrid County, Missouri ⓘ |
| distanceTo | approximately 150 miles south of St. Louis, Missouri ⓘ |
| economyBasedOn |
agriculture
ⓘ
river transportation ⓘ |
| elevationAboveSeaLevel | approximately 300 feet ⓘ |
| foundedAs | Spanish colonial settlement ⓘ |
| foundedBy |
George Morgan
ⓘ
linked to:
George T. Morgan
|
| governmentType | mayor–council government ⓘ |
| hasAreaCode | 573 ⓘ |
| hasCounty | New Madrid County, Missouri ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
New Madrid Historical Museum
ⓘ
riverfront on the Mississippi River ⓘ |
| hasHistoricSignificance |
early American frontier river town
ⓘ
site affected by land deformation from 1811–1812 earthquakes ⓘ |
| hasNaturalHazardRisk | major earthquake risk ⓘ |
| hasNearbyGeologicalFeature |
Reelfoot Rift
ⓘ
linked to:
Reelfoot fault
|
| hasNearbyStateBorder |
Missouri–Kentucky border
ⓘ
Missouri–Tennessee border ⓘ |
| hasPostalCode | 63869 ⓘ |
| historicalEvent | 1811–1812 New Madrid earthquakes ⓘ |
| isCountySeatOf | New Madrid County, Missouri ⓘ |
| knownFor |
historic earthquakes of 1811–1812
ⓘ
proximity to New Madrid Seismic Zone ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Mississippi River Valley
ⓘ
linked to:
Mississippi River valley
Mississippi embayment ⓘ
linked to:
Mississippi Embayment
United States Midwest ⓘ southeastern Missouri ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion |
Bootheel of Missouri
ⓘ
linked to:
Missouri Bootheel
|
| locatedInTimeZone | Central Time Zone ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Kentucky
ⓘ
Tennessee ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Mississippi River ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
Madrid, Spain
ⓘ
linked to:
Madrid
|
| partOf | New Madrid Seismic Zone ⓘ |
| populationCharacteristic | small city ⓘ |
| region | southeast Missouri ⓘ |
| state | Missouri ⓘ |
| subjectOf | seismological studies ⓘ |
| timeZone | CST ⓘ |
| timeZoneDST | CDT ⓘ |
| transportation |
served by Interstate 55 (nearby)
ⓘ
served by U.S. Route 61 ⓘ |
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, Missouri Description of subject: New Madrid, Missouri is a small historic city in the southeastern corner of the state, best known for its proximity to the New Madrid Seismic Zone, the site of some of the most powerful earthquakes in U.S. history.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: New Madrid, Missouri
linked to: New Madrid, Missouri
linked to: New Madrid, Missouri
linked to: New Madrid, Missouri