David City, Nebraska, United States
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David City, Nebraska, United States, is a small Midwestern town best known as the birthplace of popular 1920s and 1930s singer and actress Ruth Etting.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| David City, Nebraska, United States canonical | 2 |
| David City is the administrative center of Butler County, Nebraska | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5078208 — 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: David City, Nebraska, United States Context triple: [Ruth Etting, placeOfBirth, David City, Nebraska, United States]
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A.
Dakota City, Nebraska
Dakota City, Nebraska is a small village that serves as the county seat of Dakota County in northeastern Nebraska, located along the Missouri River.
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B.
St. Paul, Nebraska, United States
St. Paul, Nebraska, United States, is a small city in central Nebraska that serves as the county seat of Howard County.
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C.
Ralston, Nebraska
Ralston, Nebraska is a small suburban city in Douglas County that functions as an enclave within Omaha and is part of the greater Omaha–Council Bluffs metropolitan area.
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D.
La Vista, Nebraska
La Vista, Nebraska is a suburban city in Sarpy County that forms part of the greater Omaha metropolitan area.
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E.
Plattsmouth, Nebraska
Plattsmouth, Nebraska is a small historic city in eastern Nebraska located along the Missouri River, serving as the county seat of Cass County within the Omaha metropolitan area.
- 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: David City, Nebraska, United States Target entity description: David City, Nebraska, United States, is a small Midwestern town best known as the birthplace of popular 1920s and 1930s singer and actress Ruth Etting.
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A.
Dakota City, Nebraska
Dakota City, Nebraska is a small village that serves as the county seat of Dakota County in northeastern Nebraska, located along the Missouri River.
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B.
St. Paul, Nebraska, United States
St. Paul, Nebraska, United States, is a small city in central Nebraska that serves as the county seat of Howard County.
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C.
Ralston, Nebraska
Ralston, Nebraska is a small suburban city in Douglas County that functions as an enclave within Omaha and is part of the greater Omaha–Council Bluffs metropolitan area.
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D.
La Vista, Nebraska
La Vista, Nebraska is a suburban city in Sarpy County that forms part of the greater Omaha metropolitan area.
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E.
Plattsmouth, Nebraska
Plattsmouth, Nebraska is a small historic city in eastern Nebraska located along the Missouri River, serving as the county seat of Cass County within the Omaha metropolitan area.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | city ⓘ |
| areaCode | 402 ⓘ |
| climate | humid continental climate ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| geographicRegion | eastern Nebraska ⓘ |
| governmentType | city government ⓘ |
| hasCulturalHeritage | connection to early 20th-century American popular music via Ruth Etting ⓘ |
| hasEconomicActivity |
agriculture
ⓘ
local services ⓘ |
| hasFeature | rural surroundings ⓘ |
| hasNotableBuilding | Butler County Courthouse ⓘ |
| hasNotableIndustry | agricultural support services ⓘ |
| hasNotablePerson | Ruth Etting ⓘ |
| hasRegionCode | FIPS code for Butler County jurisdiction ⓘ |
| hasSettlementType | small town ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Butler County, Nebraska
ⓘ
Great Plains region ⓘ
linked to:
Great Plains
|
| locatedNear |
Columbus, Nebraska
ⓘ
Lincoln, Nebraska ⓘ |
| namedFor | David Butler ⓘ |
| notableAs | birthplace of Ruth Etting ⓘ |
| partOf | Midwestern United States ⓘ |
| postalCode | 68632 ⓘ |
| role | county seat of Butler County, Nebraska ⓘ |
| state | Nebraska ⓘ |
| timeZone | Central Time Zone ⓘ |
| timeZoneDST |
Central Daylight Time
ⓘ
linked to:
Central Time Zone
|
| transportation | served by local highways ⓘ |
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: David City, Nebraska, United States Description of subject: David City, Nebraska, United States, is a small Midwestern town best known as the birthplace of popular 1920s and 1930s singer and actress Ruth Etting.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Etting
Butler County, Nebraska
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hasCountySeatRole
→
David City is the administrative center of Butler County, Nebraska
ⓘ
linked to: David City, Nebraska, United States