Williamstown, West Virginia
E512341
Williamstown, West Virginia, is a small city in the Mid-Ohio Valley region known for its location along the Ohio River and proximity to Parkersburg.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| St. Marys, West Virginia | 1 |
| Williamstown, West Virginia canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4772974 — 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: Williamstown, West Virginia Context triple: [Wood County, West Virginia, hasMunicipality, Williamstown, West Virginia]
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A.
Williamson, West Virginia
Williamson, West Virginia is a small city in the Appalachian region known historically as a coal-mining community and commercial hub along the Tug Fork River.
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B.
Petersburg, West Virginia
Petersburg, West Virginia, is a small city in the Potomac Highlands region known as a local commercial hub and gateway to nearby outdoor recreation areas such as Dolly Sods and Seneca Rocks.
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C.
Ballard, West Virginia
Ballard, West Virginia is a small unincorporated rural community located in Monroe County in the southeastern part of the state.
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D.
Hinton, West Virginia
Hinton, West Virginia is a small historic city in Summers County known as a gateway to outdoor recreation in the New River Gorge region, including the nearby Bluestone National Scenic River.
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E.
Matoaka, West Virginia
Matoaka, West Virginia, is a small incorporated town in southern West Virginia that developed as a coal-mining community in the Appalachian region.
- 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: Williamstown, West Virginia Target entity description: Williamstown, West Virginia, is a small city in the Mid-Ohio Valley region known for its location along the Ohio River and proximity to Parkersburg.
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A.
Williamson, West Virginia
Williamson, West Virginia is a small city in the Appalachian region known historically as a coal-mining community and commercial hub along the Tug Fork River.
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B.
Petersburg, West Virginia
Petersburg, West Virginia, is a small city in the Potomac Highlands region known as a local commercial hub and gateway to nearby outdoor recreation areas such as Dolly Sods and Seneca Rocks.
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C.
Ballard, West Virginia
Ballard, West Virginia is a small unincorporated rural community located in Monroe County in the southeastern part of the state.
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D.
Hinton, West Virginia
Hinton, West Virginia is a small historic city in Summers County known as a gateway to outdoor recreation in the New River Gorge region, including the nearby Bluestone National Scenic River.
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E.
Matoaka, West Virginia
Matoaka, West Virginia, is a small incorporated town in southern West Virginia that developed as a coal-mining community in the Appalachian region.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
city
ⓘ
municipality ⓘ |
| adjacentTo | Marietta, Ohio NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| areaCode |
304
ⓘ
681 ⓘ |
| borderType | river border with Ohio ⓘ |
| climate | humid continental to humid subtropical transition ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| countySeatOf | none ⓘ |
| elevation |
approximately 190 meters
ⓘ
approximately 623 feet ⓘ |
| FIPSCode | 54-87252 ⓘ |
| GNISFeatureID | 1555980 ⓘ |
| governmentType | mayor–council ⓘ |
| hasAttraction |
Fenton Art Glass Company (historic)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ohio River Islands National Wildlife Refuge headquarters NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasEconomicActivity |
light manufacturing
ⓘ
retail trade ⓘ river-related commerce ⓘ |
| hasFeature | riverfront location ⓘ |
| hasHighSchool | Williamstown High School NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNeighboringCommunity |
Boaz, West Virginia
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Vienna, West Virginia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRiver | Ohio River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSchoolDistrict | Wood County Schools NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| incorporatedIn | 19th century ⓘ |
| isInCongressionalDistrict | West Virginia's 1st congressional district NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isPartOf | United States Census Bureau places ⓘ |
| latitude | approximately 39.399° N ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Mid-Ohio Valley
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
West Virginia NERFINISHED ⓘ Wood County, West Virginia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Ohio River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| longitude | approximately 81.449° W ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Isaac Williams NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| near | Parkersburg, West Virginia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| observesDaylightSavingTime | yes ⓘ |
| partOf | Parkersburg–Vienna metropolitan area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| postalCode | 26187 ⓘ |
| region | Appalachia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| riverValley | Ohio River Valley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| stateAbbreviation | WV ⓘ |
| timeZone | Eastern Time Zone ⓘ |
| transportInfrastructure |
U.S. Route 50 nearby
ⓘ
Williamstown–Marietta Bridge NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| waterBody | Ohio River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Williamstown, West Virginia Description of subject: Williamstown, West Virginia, is a small city in the Mid-Ohio Valley region known for its location along the Ohio River and proximity to Parkersburg.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
St. Marys, West Virginia